BALTIC COUNTRIES: RAIL BALTICA PROJECT

Customer

Rail Baltica

Subsystem

Duration of the project

06.2020 -

Project's description

The Rail Baltica project is an 875-km-long greenfield project which will connect three European Union Member States, being Estonia (217 km), Latvia (269 km) and Lithuania (389 km).

Several regional stations and stops will be constructed and will be designed to be accessible to all types of passengers. The line will also feature more than 140 different railway structures, with railway bridges over river, railway viaducts over road, railway viaducts over land, railway structure over pedestrian/cyclist crossing, and so forth. Two tunnels (“Riga Railway Central Station to Riga Airport” – 2 km and “Kaunas tunnel” – 1.7 km) are planned to be bored.

The line has been designed to provide 249 km/h passenger service and 120 km/h freight service, to form the central part of the Baltic Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Traffic management will be supported by ERTMS L2 Baseline 3 (i.e. ETCS L2 + GSM-R or FRMCS), and the line will be powered by a 2×25 kV – 50 Hz overhead contact line.

Scope of work

In this context CERTIFER, along with our partner Network Certification Body (NCB), is involved as a Notified Body (NoBo) to check for the project’s compliance with the following Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs): Infrastructure (INF) / Persons with disabilities and Reduced Mobility (PRM) / Energy / Control-Command & Signalling (ERTMS L2 Baseline 3) / Safety in Railway Tunnels (SRT). In addition to this NoBo service, an Assessment Body (AsBo) service focused on one section of the line (Sveicarinja-Zeimiai) and on one bridge (Bridge over Neris River) was also contracted to check for the suitability of their design as per safety requirements detailed in EU Regulation N°402/2013.

Achievements
See all
France: haut-bugey conventional line
France: Eole project
NoBo/DeBo FR/AsBo Services
France: CDG express line assessment
DeBo/NoBo/AsBo Services
France: bypass of Donges industrial sites
NoBo, DeBo and AsBo service
France : Bretagne Pays-De-La-Loire (BPL) HSL
Evaluation of the TGV POS subsystem in relation to TSI
Denmark: Ringsted – Fehmarn
NoBo / ISA Services
Denmark: Electrification Program
ISA -CSM / NoBo Services

Do you have a project?

Do you need an expert support for your railway project?

Are you a mobilty expert?

Join our team to work on innovative projects and advance the future of mobility together.