The EuroSpec initiative has the ambition to achieve a significant cost reduction and an overall improvement of the reliability, availability and quality of trains.
This will be achieved by delivering a complete set of harmonised functional and technical specifications for passenger trains within a common specification structure. In this way variation of the operators requirements will be reduced in variation, the operators focus will be mainly on functional requirements and the industry-level solutions will be narrowed down in order to strive for as many basic architectures and modules as possible.
In order to achieve our goals, the EuroSpec initiative will operate as a lean project with efficient and transparent decision making principles. Just with this approach our partners are able to support this initiative.
EuroSpec can be seen as an accelerator for European harmonisation in the voluntary precompetitive domain.
In order to achieve our goals, the EuroSpec initiative will operate as a lean project with efficient and transparent decision making principles. With this approach our partners are able to support this initiative. The following common values and main principles are part of the EuroSpec approach:
- Fast & efficient (focus points, small organization and working groups, short decision making processes) Pragmatic & business focus
- Low-cost
- Relying on members’ support, experiences and expertise
- Maximum in-kind approach (shared work load)
- Transparent (processes, deliverables, exchange with industry)
- End-user oriented focus.
- Independent of other European railway associations
- Focus on European (end-) users, market structure, regulations and Standards