SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 12/2020
UIC starts FRMCS project 5GRAIL
The €13 million EU-funded project will run for 30 months and consists of eight work packages to validate the FRMCS (Future Railways Mobile Communication System) specifications, for which prototypes for both trackside and on-board systems will be developed and tested. UIC, as project coordinator of 5GRAIL, will manage the consortium, which includes UNIFE (rail industry), the railways DB, SNCF, SBB, ÖBB and IP, the manufacturers Nokia, Kontron, Alstom, Thales, Siemens, CAF and Teleste, as well as research centres or universities from France and Denmark....