SNCF is a leader in passenger transport and freight logistics, in France and around the world. 

We deliver integrated public transport solutions that promote regional development and meet everyone’s needs. 

We deliver cost-effective travel solutions—shared and door-to-door—that cater to all passenger needs and budgets, raise the bar for service, and help protect the planet. 

Delivering made-to-measure multimodal solutions to customers the world over, combining business performance with environmental protection and safety. 

We manage, maintain, modernize, and sell access to the French rail network. 

We provide solutions for maintaining and deriving value from station assets and boosting regional economic growth: over €1.5bn in revenue in 2019, over 3,000 stations in France, 10m people passing through French stations every day. 

SNCF will also provide infrastructure to run tests.

CONTRIBUTION

SNCF is the leader of S5LECT project. Beyond managing technical and administrative developments, SNCF strives to design and implement impactful demonstrations, and reach out to numerous Railway, Satellite and Security-related stakeholders within the framework of the project. 

The Technological Research Institute for the railway sector, implements innovation projects by creating partnerships between industry and academia. It coordinates the implementation of innovation projects that meet the challenges of the sector in conjunction with the public authorities. Railenium’s mission is to support the development of the rail industry in the face of two major challenges: the acceleration of modal shift and competition from emerging countries. The IRT is committed to developing, validating, and testing innovative technologies and solutions which must meet four priority challenges for the sector: increasing transport capacity at iso-infrastructure, increasing reliability in service, reducing and controlling costs, and reducing time to market.
In response to these challenges, Railenium has set up three strategic programs included in the strategic sector contract: Railway Test Centre, Autonomous Train and Railway Modelling and Forecasting.

CONTRIBUTION

In this project, Railenium will contribute to the user needs and definition of scenarios in WP2. Railenium will provide technical lead for the cybersecurity and the Edge computing tasks in WP3 and will contribute to the Associated with document integration and tests at TRL4 in WP4. Railenium will be responsible of WP5 for the dissemination.

Hitachi Rail’s is a trusted partner to operators around the world with expertise across every part of the rail ecosystems – from manufacturing and maintenance of rolling stock to digital signalling, smart operations, ticketing and payment.
Drawing on the wider Hitachi group companies, Hitachi Rail furthers the development of digital innovation and new technologies to help pioneer resilient and sustainable solutions. In FY23, the company had revenues of EUR 7bn with 24,000 employees across over 50 countries.
The Supervision and Communication team’s mission is to guarantee operational efficiency and ensure passenger safety and comfort, including the provision of advanced network and telecommunication solutions. Aimed at answering tomorrow’s transport challenges, Hitachi Rail’s end-to-end connectivity solutions are optimised for railway operations but also pave the way for the introduction of new innovative services.

CONTRIBUTION

In this project, Hitachi Rail will provide technical lead to develop, test and integrate the technical solution designed to meet the project’s objectives: achieve seamless handover between satellite and terrestrial radio links to support identified railway use-cases in a secured way, while leveraging Edge Computing technology.

Ceit is a non-profit technology center, created on the initiative of the University of Navarra in 1982, and whose main task is to carry out industrial research projects in close collaboration with the industry.
Ceit promotes excellence in applied research through the publication of non-confidential results and participation in scientific and technical dissemination forums, as well as doctoral training within the framework of industrial research projects.
Ceit works with companies in a range of sectors (railway, aeronautical, automotive, health, manufacturing, energy and environment) and strives to understand all aspects of our clients’ business in order to develop high value-added solutions through applied investigation projects.
In addition to offering innovative solutions to our clients, Ceit trains young researchers who are preparing to join the labour market and add value to the production system.

CONTRIBUTION

In this project, Ceit will contribute to the user needs and definition of scenarios in WP2, focusing on the real scenarios definition with the LCT. Moreover, CEIT will contribute to the field tests with LCT and LCT integration in S5LECT lab. in WP4. Finally, CEIT will also contribute to WP5 for the dissemination with scientific papers and showing the project at CEIT’s booth at InnoTrans 2024.

Radiolabs is a non-profit research Consortium of Universities-Industries, established in 2001. The headquarter is in Rome, Corso d’Italia 19, Italy and the laboratories are based in the University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Roma Tre, and University of L’Aquila.
Radiolabs mission is to contribute on Applied Research, Innovation, and Knowledge Transfer in the emerging fields of ICT and GNSS technologies and relevant applications. The team includes 14 staff dedicated to specific projects (PhD, Masters and Engineers) with specific skill in the areas of telecommunications, including wireless, railways communication and navigation, Internet systems and services, and new media technologies. Other 23 researchers are affiliated through the universities. Thanks to the close relationship between University and Industry partners strongly committed to research and innovation, Radiolabs is able to set up joint teams able to gather a wide range of high level and complementary research expertise. In the last 10 years, Radiolabs has developed research projects for a value of approximately 12M€ and has published about 150 Journal Papers and Conference proceedings.
Radiolabs trains high level technical personnel, assists young researchers with grants and any other applicable support to their research activities, provides support to PhD activities of the partner Universities, and promotes the dissemination of results through conferences, workshops and specialized publications.

CONTRIBUTION

RadioLabs will contribute to the project in all the WPs; Leader of WP3.