ST4RT – Semantic Transformations for Rail Transportation

The lack of interoperability between different transport modes is a barrier to the modal shift towards green modes of transport such as rail, on its own or as a backbone of an integrated mobility system, as well as the deployment of a Single European Transport Area. The ST4RT (Semantic Transformations for Rail Transportation) project aims at developing a demonstrator for a component that allows services relying on different standards to interoperate. This is achieved through the implementation of techniques for the automated transformation of messages across standards which are based on semantically-rich data. This paper presents some of the results achieved by the ST4RT project, and delineates its forthcoming contributions. ST4RT will contribute components to the Interoperability Framework which is at the core of the fourth Innovation Programme (IP4) of Shift2Rail.