OSRD is a railway toolbox designed for multiple use cases. These tools have in common a reliance on railway infrastructure simulation and results analysis.
1 - Governance
Governance and organisation of OSRD
One of the ambitions of OSRD is to help with timetabling on a European scale.
To reach this goal, OSRD has to take local features into account by consulting and collaborating with railway companies and infrastructure operators.
And by contributing to OSRD, these companies:
Profit from all the common development efforts
Can freely build on the common effort to achieve their own goals1
Participate in the roadmap and technical direction of the project to the extent of their contribution
OSRD is currently developped by:
A team of full-time developpers at SNCF Réseau, financed by SNCF Réseau, the French state and the European Union
Individual contributors
The Open Rail Foundation
The Open Rail Foundation is an upcoming non-profit commited to organizing cooperative work around railway software tools.
As long as they don’t modify the common tools without sharing their improvements. See the details of the LGPLv3 license. ↩︎
2 - Use cases
Use cases related to rail transport planning
OSRD is meant to fulfill a range of use-cases related to railway planning: