PTCM is in­te­grat­ed

Since Jan­u­ary 20, 2026, our PTCM mes­sages have been suc­cess­ful­ly processed. This is a big step for sched­ul­ing and fore­cast­ing in net­work op­er­a­tions.

PTCM stands for Pas­sen­ger Train Com­po­si­tion Mes­sage. With this stan­dard­ized mes­sage, rail­way un­der­tak­ings con­vey the cur­rent train com­po­si­tion to the in­fra­struc­ture op­er­a­tor such as DB In­fra­GO, for ex­am­ple, train length, car­riage se­quence, and tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics. This data is the ba­sis for plat­form as­sign­ments, sched­ul­ing, and fore­cast­ing. Since De­cem­ber 2025, PTCM has been manda­to­ry EU-wide.

Pre­vi­ous­ly, changes to the train com­po­si­tion of­ten had to be re­port­ed by phone: time-con­sum­ing, er­ror-prone, and re­source-in­ten­sive. Now our sys­tem au­to­mat­i­cal­ly trans­mits every change in real-time, even be­fore the train's de­par­ture.

The re­sult: bet­ter sched­ul­ing, more ac­cu­rate fore­casts, and more sta­ble op­er­a­tions. We are rolling out the so­lu­tion for many rail­way un­der­tak­ings in our net­work.

And we are mov­ing for­ward right away: Next, we in­crease us­abil­i­ty and im­ple­ment fur­ther stan­dard­ized mes­sages.