OpenRail Association
The OpenRail Association creates an open, autonomous and collaborative innovation space. Its mission is to promote the development of open source software projects in the railway sector, as it already exists in numerous other industrial sectors like telecommunication, automotive, or energy. Let's solve problems together!
Over the years, many private or commercial initiatives have resulted in valuable, but mostly "in- house" applications or frameworks. These disconnected initiatives necessarily overlap, within a context of constrained IT development resources.
The objective of the OpenRail Association Initiative is to provide an open space to foster innovation and software development in the railway sector.
Software development activity is now an inherent part of rail operations, and all players have IT teams working on internal projects. Often using tools provided by private software publishers, these teams continually create value. They know the needs and constraints of the business. They can innovate and propose reliable technical solutions. They are already doing this, but in isolation. OpenRail Association wishes to federate all the efforts that are made by IT teams around the world in open, collaborative, scalable and robust software projects.
The rail industry collectively needs a set of affordable, well-understood, reliable, and maintained software tools to perform basic analyses of their customers' needs, business assets, or environmental impact of their operations.
