Dev:Border between infrastructure managers and countries

Introduction

Border between infrastructure managers (handover point) is the point where legal responsibility changes between the infrastructure managers (IM) [TAF TAP TSI].

These IM borders can be found between countries and within one e.g. in case there are private and national railway infrastructure managers in a country. Sometimes there two railway lines meet each other. Therefore below you can see two examples:

• border between lines and border between IMs coincide;
• border between IMs is within one line.

Borders between IMs and railway lines coincide

The photo shows an example of a ‘handover point’ between Germany and Austria, IMs DB InfraGO ( 🇩🇪) in Germany and ÖBB Infra () in Austria. Here also two railway lines meet each other - "Bahnstrecke München Ost Pbf – Simbach (Inn) (DB-Grenze)" and "Bahnstrecke Neumarkt-Kallham – Staatsgrenze nächst Braunau am Inn".

In the source code, shown below, there are two tracks. When choosing approach with two tracks be aware of semantic constraints e.g. IS:003 "If two <track>s are connected, the @absPos values of the connected <trackBegin> and <trackEnd> must be identical" . Here exception to restriction IS:003 applies because tracks belong to different mileage systems. This is justified via two railway lines referring to tracks.

Ownership is represented by @infrastructureManagerRef of <line> elements. Further information about IMs is given in the <infrastructureManager> element and corresponding code list (link to the railML^® website).

Border between infrastructure managers ÖBB Infra () in Austria and DB InfraGO ( 🇩🇪) in Germany (By Renardo la vulpo/Image source/CC0)

<metadata>
  <organizationalUnits>
    <infrastructureManager id="ima01" code="DBN"/>
    <infrastructureManager id="ima02" code="ÖBB"/>
  </organizationalUnits>
</metadata>
..
<track id="tr01">
  <trackTopology>
    <trackBegin id="tb01" pos="0" absPos="0">..</trackBegin>
    <trackEnd id="te01" pos="115087" absPos="115087">..</trackEnd>
  </trackTopology>
  <trackElements>
    ..
</track>
<track id="tr02">
  <trackTopology>
    <trackBegin id="tb02" pos="0" absPos="59229">..</trackBegin>
    <trackEnd id="te02" pos="59220" absPos="9">..</trackEnd>
  </trackTopology>
  <trackElements>
    ..
    <ownerChange id="och02" pos="0" absPos="59229" infrastructureManagerRef="ima02"/>
    ..
  </trackElements>
</track>

<trackGroups>
  <line id="lin01" code="5600" infrastructureManagerRef="ima01" name="Bahnstrecke München Ost Pbf – Simbach (Inn) (DB-Grenze)">
    <trackRef ref="tr01"/>
  </line>
  <line id="lin02" code="20701" infrastructureManagerRef="ima02" name="Bahnstrecke Neumarkt-Kallham – Staatsgrenze nächst Braunau am Inn">
    <trackRef ref="tr02"/>
  </line>
</trackGroups>

Border between IMs is within one railway line

The photo shows an example of a ‘handover point’ at the Germany-Czech Republic border on Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt_railway (). This line is operated by two different rail operating companies, Správa_železnic () in the Czech Republic and DB InfraGO ( 🇩🇪) in Germany, meaning there is a change in infrastructure managers. Mileage of the border was obtained from Variabler Infrastruktur Aggregator.

<metadata>
  <organizationalUnits>
    <infrastructureManager id="ima01" code="DBN"/>
    <infrastructureManager id="ima02" code="SZD"/>
  </organizationalUnits>
</metadata>
..
<track id="tr01">
  <trackTopology>
    <trackBegin id="tb01" pos="0" absPos="0">..</trackBegin>
    <trackEnd id="te01" pos="65986" absPos="65986">..</trackEnd>
  </trackTopology>
  <trackElements>
    ..
    <ownerChange id="och01" pos="0" absPos="0" infrastructureManagerRef="ima01"/>
    <ownerChange id="och02" pos="11859" absPos="11859" infrastructureManagerRef="ima02" name="Bahnverw.grenze Bad Schandau Gr"/>
    ..
  </trackElements>
</track>