The Railway System Transformation – Implementation of the Interoperability Requirements on the Rail Network

Accession of the Republic of Poland to the European Union (EU) has committed Poland to adopt, among others, policy of opening up the market of products and services in the area of rail transport. Follow decision about the opening of the EU market and transport services for rail transport, the European Parliament and of the Council have introduced a number of safety and interoperability directives for implement interoperability on the rail system in EU. Their goal was to get the integration of rail transport systems, despite the differences in control-command and signalling systems, power supply and operation system, to be rich on the safe and not disrupted train running over the different countries (different infrastructure managers). This process so-called „migration” of the rail transport system. Among others in the paper are presented existing railway system – transformation inputs to outputs, new railway system – transformation inputs to outputs, transformation of the railway system, structure of railway system, interoperability of railway line, interoperability of trains, interoperability of the rail network, interoperability between superstructure and infrastructure.