2016

One UML approach

The RailTopoModel Expert Group is currently working on implementing a One UML Approach for railML3. Up to now, the RailTopoModel Expert Group designed and enriched the RTM UML model with business objects to fulfil use cases . In parallel...

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Successful 7th RailTopoModel and 30th railML conference

Conference report In the first week of November railML celebrated its 30 th conference! It took place together with the 7 th UIC RailTopoModel conference in Paris on the 3 rd of November, 2016. We are very proud that the number of participants and...

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RailTopoModel and railML session at ADIF

On invitation of Francisco Luna Millán a team of seven RTM and railML.org representative came to the headquarter of ADIF, Madrid. Aim of the meeting was to inform ADIF´s management about the development, advantages, implementation and future...

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railVIVID enhancements for the community

A new railVIVID beta version will be finished during the next days and will be available for download on the railML webpage . The source code of railVIVID was revised, the usability and reliability was strongly improved and some various little...

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railML 3 Development Roadmap (Updated: May 2017)

The team of railML.org is currently working intensely at developing railML 3. According to the current railML 3 Development Roadmap - proposed by Christian Rahmig (Infrastructure coordinator at railML.org) on the 23 rd of June 2016 – the alpha...

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Exchange with DB Open-Data-Team

railML.org took the chance to meet with the Open-Data-Team of Deutsche Bahn in their recently redesigned working space mindbox, located in the heart of Berlin at S-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke. Aim of the meeting was to get to know each other better,...

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Discussion about further Timetable development

During the last railML.org-timetable developer meeting, which took place in Berlin on the 2 nd of June, 2016, the present modellers discussed the further development strategy of the railML.org subschema timetable. The publishing of railML 3...

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Substantial progress with railVIVID

railVIVID – the railML viewer and validator – is official published with a productive usable version V 1.00b since April 2016. railVIVID is a free programme with which railML data can be validated and displayed. It is subdivided into five parts:...

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Topics of the 6th RailTopoModel conference

In February 2016 railML.org published a short news item about OpenData. OpenData was also a big topic at the spring conference of RailTopoModel, which took place once again in Paris on the 19 th of April. Representatives from the Swiss Federal...

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railML version 2.3 published

As part of the 29 th railML conference which took place in the headquarter of HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH in Hanover on the 10 th of March, 2016, the railML version 2.3 was published. railML 2.3 includes six new enhancements from the field of...

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railML® in the context of open data

As we are in the middle of the decade of digitalisation, data has become very important. A relatively new trend that now also moves into the focus of European railways is Open Data . The central idea of open data is the free availability and...

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BIM and railML®

BIM is the abbreviation for Building Information Modelling and describes the whole life cycle of a construction project. On the basis of a 3D model with height, width and depth data of components, the two dimensions of time and costs are added....

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