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MERITS PRIFIS – the success story

EU Railway Conference

Lille, 8 May 2014

Marc GUIGON – UIC - Senior Advisor Passenger Transport

UIC: the International Union of Railways

> 240 members in 92 countries on 5 continents

> Members are:

Railways

Rail operators

Infrastructure managers

Railway service providers

Public transport companies

Railway research centers (including some universities)

> Role: to promote Rail transport in the world (conferences,

governments…), to provide International Railway Standards,

to support members (tools, studies…)

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UIC in 2014


UIC Passenger activity Four sectors

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Intercity &

High Speed Mr. Leboeuf - SNCF

Commuter &

Regional Train

Services Mr. Buczek - PKP

Commercial & Distribution

Including MERITS and PRIFIS Mr. Fenkes – DB AG

Stations Managers

Global Group Mr. Ventura - ADIF

GLOBAL

PASSENGER

MEETING Mrs. Dalibard

SNCF

High Level

Steering

Group

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MERITS

Multiple European Railway Integrated Timetable Storage

The database of UIC for

Timetable (350 000 train services)

Stations (50 000 stations)

The system for collecting, verifying, integrating and

exporting timetable data.

MERITS


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PRIFIS

PRIce and Fare Information System

The price and fare database of UIC

Pass-port tool

Based on the UIC leaflets

108.1 Non Reservation Tickets (NRT) prices (62 railway

undertakings, 400 000 primary itineraries – legs, 389 tariffs)

108.2 Integrated Reservation Tickets (IRT) prices (3 300 000 fares,

900 tariffs in 7 railway undertakings)

PRIFIS


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• To provide its own timetables to the community in

order to ensure passengers have timely and

accurate information and are encouraged to travel

by rail

• To have timetables of the other railways to develop

the international rail traffic and sell tickets of other

railways

• To have timetables to be able to position RUs as

suppliers of IT software solution, journey planner ...

Stakes of MERITS for the participant


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• NRT: open ticket: To provide its tariff data to the

railway community with the tools of Passport and

PRIFIS (Almaviva). So, tickets can be sold easily

by other railway undertakings

• IRT ticket reservation: To make available its tariff

data including the terms and conditions in the

railway community with the tool passport, but no

access to the RU inventories

Stakes of PRIFIS for the participant


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The participating railways receive weekly an integrated data set

with data of all participants, which they can use for their

national information and ticketing systems

All Timetable data of the participating railways, including

stations codes

Participating railways have access to an application on the

Internet to receive timetable and price information

The possibility to connect national systems via a computer to

computer interface, in order to get journey itineraries directly

from the systems of individual railways

Main functionalities of MERITS/PRIFIS


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MERITS concept


Base of MERITS-PRIFIS: Relevant UIC documents

> UIC Standard 108-1: “Computer Generation and Exchange of Tariff Data

Meant for International or Foreign Sales – Non Reservation Tickets”

> UIC Standard 108-2: “Computer Generation and Exchange of Tariff Data

Meant for International and Foreign Sales – Integrated Reservation Tickets

(IRT)”

> UIC Standard 920-16: Directory of Passenger Code Lists

> UIC Standard 916-1: Implementation guide for EDIFACT messages

covering timetable data exchange

> UIC Standard 920-1: Standard numerical coding for railway undertakings,

infrastructure managers and other companies involved in rail transport

chains

> UIC Standard 920-2: Standard numerical coding of locations

> Each UIC standard is transposed in the European legislation in “TD”:

Technical Document. Ex: B1, B2… Note : IRS “International Railway Standards” replace former “Leaflets”


TimeTable data step by step

Elaboration of time table

by each RUs(

production + commercial

data) in MERITS format

Validation and

integration in MERITS tool

Integration of the

MERITS consolidated package with

the set of members

data deliveries

Data redistribution

to the European

RU community member of MERITS

Preparation and

optimization of the

timetable data for IT exploitation

(EVA, Hafas,…)

Timetable Data

operated in railways IT

systems and web sites for reservation, information,

journey planning,

mobile apps …

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Each RU In MERITS System Each RU

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Timetable data operated in railways IT systems and web sites

> MERITS and PRIFIS data are mandatory to run the IT

systems and apps of the railway undertakings

(bahn.de, voyages-sncf.com, Eurail app…) in order to

have a large coverage of railway undertakings data

> For information

> For reservation

> For journey planning

> For mobile apps


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Customer Experience Lifecycle

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Consultation

Timetable Information

Consultation of Pricing and

Tariffs

Booking and

Availability

Ticketing

(Home Print,

Mobile, ATB)

Trip

Information

Services

Control

Post-Trip

(Compensation Refunds)


CFM IT System

MERITS

Timetable

PRIFIS Tariff

108.1

Weekly Once a year

Customer in

Moldova I want to go

to Berlin

Do I have a

train and at

what time

Train and time info

How much

it cost for

second

class

Price and tariffs available

OK I want

to buy my

ticket !

Participating railways Accounting files

NRT tariff (Germany, East Europe…)

Journey planner Price engine

Accounting

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CFM IT

System

MERITS

Timetable

PRIFIS Tariff &

terms & conditions

108.2

Weekly

Customer in

Chisinau I want to

travel in

France

Do I have a

train and at

what time

Train and time info

How much

it cost for

first class

Price and tariffs available

OK I want

to reserve

& buy my

ticket !

Accounting

files

IRT tariff (France, Spain, Italy…)

Journey

planner

SNCF IT

system

On request

Price

engine

Inventory

Ticket &

reservation info Accounting Accounting

Hermes

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Exemples of MERITS data in RUs systems

Bahn.de journey planner: Bucuresti Nord to Chisinau


Exemples of MERITS data in mobile apps

InterRail & EuRail apps Beograd to Chisinau


Adaptation of MERITS and PRIFIS for TAP-TSI regulation


Regulation for timetables

> “The railway undertaking makes available its own timetable

data to other railway undertakings and to third parties”

> “The railway undertaking shall ensure that the timetable

data are accurate and up-to-date”

> “The railway undertaking shall make available any changes

to the annual timetable in a series of timetable updates at

least 7 days before those changes take effect”


Requests from Merits-Prifis members

> Some European Railway Undertakings asked UIC to provide

the right tools to be compliant with the regulation,

concerning timetable data and tariffs data

> They have expressed this position to the European

Commission when they have written their TAP-TSI

Masterplan one year ago


So, UIC will adapt MERITS in order that the MERITS members (RUs)

will be compliant to the regulation

> All MERITS member has the same set of data

> Data are up-to-date (each 7 days)

> All MERITS members uses the Data Quality Management

included in MERITS for its own data

> All MERITS member uses the integration organisation for

international trains


MERITS adaptation phases

>First phase functionalities: • Filter the timetable data output by RU and not by

country

• Data supplier’s functionality to manage his data’s

accessibility to authorized user

• Implementation during second semester of 2015



>Second phase functionalities: when

the TAP-TSI governance services will

be implemented • Connection to the registry

• Connection to the Retail Reference Data

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RUs

Third Parties

RRD

Registry

MERITS

Time table data

Upload Time

table data

Inform

Register / inform

Download

Location data

Download

Access control First phase

Second phase

Agreements

Filter by carrier

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Upload location

data

Download location &

location data


Regulation for tariffs

> “The railway undertaking makes available its own tariffs to

other railway undertakings and to authorized public bodies

and authorized third parties”

> “The railway undertaking shall ensure that the tariffs are

accurate and up-to-date”

> “Tariff data shall be made available to railway undertakings

to which it grants authorization to sell and third parties to

which it grants authorization to sell and to authorized public

bodies”


PRIFIS IRT adaptation phases

> First phase functionalities: • New authentication interface: Data supplier’s functionality to manage his

data’s (or part of it) accessibility to authorized user

• The 108.2 quality tool enhancement for checking: data deliveries and

generating reports

• In order to guaranty a good user experience, a new interface based on

latest technologies will be implemented

> Second phase functionalities: when the TAP-TSI

governance services will be implemented: • Connection to the registry

• Connection to the RRD


PRIFIS NRT adaptation for TAP-TSI

> Each year, NRT data are transferred in September from

ALMAVIVA’s website, then zipped and downloadable from

Passport tool

> The new authentication interface (Passport) will manage the

access to the NRT data, as a complete data delivery set, so no

need to provide TAP-TSI adaptation


PRIFIS adaptation phases

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RUs

Third Parties

RRD

Registry

PRIFIS

IRT & NRT Inform

Register / inform

Download

Location data

Download

Access

control First phase

Second phase

Agreements

New interface

Upload

tariff data


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