Our missions

The Association will pursue its objective conducting the following activities in the field of ERTMS /ETCS.

• Providing lab platforms to test ERTMS components and subsystems both for components certification and for subsystems (trackside and onboard) validation and interoperability demonstration; 

• Providing representation, expertise and advice to other stakeholders, e.g. industrial companies, ETCS suppliers, railways, European Bodies as UIC; UNIFE, European Union Agency for Railways, the European Union and its Member States, about the results and needs of European testing and assessment; 

• Actively participating as a partner in the creation and implementation of the appropriate projects; 

• Reaching a better gathering of the above-mentioned research community by mapping existing research competences, facilities and expertise and maintaining a respective knowledge base for its Members and third parties; 

• Formulating joint views on existing and future needs on infrastructures and programmes for ERTMS testing and validation; special attention will be drawn to the interrelation and cooperation between test and validation laboratories, with the support of national, European and international programmes; 

• Issuing any other coordinated positions on ERTMS standards tests and assessment and representing the interests of its Members in general towards third parties.”