Kouvola RRT is a rail–road terminal on the TEN-T network, and this pilot looks at eFTI from the position of the party that owns the site rather than the cargo — the terminal landlord. The focus is the moment of modal change: rail to road and road to rail at the hub, and what has to happen inside the hub’s information systems for eFTI data to be useful there.
Practically that means integrating eFTI into hub systems and working with Fintraffic Rail on the hub’s rail track bookings, while preparing for the opening of international traffic and for receiving hazardous cargo. Fintraffic is both the railway traffic control and management body in Finland and the national eFTI Gate operator — and, on current understanding, prospective Gate operator for Sweden, Denmark and Norway as well — which makes the Finnish hub an efficient place to test rail data flowing into terminal systems.
The pilot is structured as a feasibility study spanning stakeholder and beneficiary mapping, needs assessment, specification of what eFTI must deliver from a landlord’s point of view, and the basic preconditions for testing and piloting. Its wider ambition is to provide an accessible test environment for multimodal rail–road eFTI piloting that other actors can use.
