Fulfilment of the Essential Requirements of the Control-command and Signalling Trackside Subsystem on the Railway Infrastructure of Transhipment Terminals

The implementation of many railway investments indicates as the main goal increasing the efficiency of the railway system, and thanks to its features it becomes easier to integrate it in the competitive transport market. Increasing the integration of the transport sector is one of the cornerstones of the completion of the internal market and rail is an important part of the transport sector moving towards sustainable mobility. Th e modernized railway lines, which are part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) or European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) corridors, also constitute the network of rail freight corridors (RFC). Pursuant to the requirements of European law, setting the dates for implementing interoperability, the infrastructure of comprehensive networks will be forced to adapt to these requirements. Using the example of the control-command and signalling subsystem, this article outlines the scale of the problem related to the implementation of interoperability in relation to rail-road terminals constituting the comprehensive network of the RFC network.