Phase Path Elaboration

Without RFC

With RFC

DESCRIPTION

• IMs review the path request and prepare the draft offer. Once the draft offer is complete, they can submit it to the observation phase
• The offer should be harmonized with the neighbours
• If the Draft Offer deadline has passed and one of the IMs is late in preparing the offer, the IMs who finished on time can make a partial offer and start the partial harmonization process to move on to reach the Final Offer phase; only if the dossier does not contain PaPs. 
• If the dossier contains PaPs then the involved RFC gets the leading role until the Active timetable phase. With this role, RFCs can check the offer after IMs finalize the preparation of their draft offer. The partial harmonization process is not supported for dossiers with PaPs.
• Once the dossier reached the path elaboration phase the following timetable will be copied over to the IM timetable:
  • New path request without PaPs: Applicant timetable
  • New path request with PaPs: C-OSS timetable
• For the Late Path request and Adhoc process types, the leading IM is in charge of changing the phase and manually promoting the dossier otherwise PCS will not send the offer to the Applicants. 

POSSIBLE TRANSITIONS

New Path request without PaPs

New Path request with PaPs

Transition list 

New Path request without PaPs

• Path Elaboration -> Draft Offer
  • Who:
    • Leading IM
      • Restrictions
        • IM own reference point: Mandatory times completed
        • IM lights all green
    • PCS system (Automatic promotion)
      • Restrictions
        • IM own reference point: Mandatory times completed
        • IM lights all green
• Path Elaboration -> Partially Harmonized Offer
  • Who:
    • Any IM
      • Restrictions
        • IM own reference point: Mandatory times completed
        • IM own light green
• Path Elaboration -> Harmonization
  • Who:
    • Leading Applicant: Withdraw dossier (IM TT, if it exists, is deleted in the process)
    • Leading IM: Reject Dossier
  • Restrictions: None

New Path request with PaPs

• Path Elaboration -> Draft Offer
  • Who:
    • C-OSS
      • Restrictions
        • IM own reference point: Mandatory times completed
        • IM lights all green
    • PCS system (Automatic promotion)
      • Restrictions
        • IM own reference point: Mandatory times completed
        • IM and C-OSS lights are all green
• Path Elaboration -> Harmonization
  • Who:
    • Leading Applicant: Withdraw dossier (IM TT, if it exists, is deleted in the process)
    • C-OSS: Reject Dossier
  • Restrictions: None

Permissions

• Leading Applicant
  • Read-only access to the submitted Applicant Timetable 
  • Edit train composition only
  • Withdraw dossier back to Harmonization
  • Read-only access to the IM TT after the Draft offer deadline
• Applicants
  • Read-only access to the submitted Applicant Timetable 
  • Read-only access to the IM TT after the Draft offer deadline
  • Edit train composition only
• Leading IM
  • Read access to the whole dossier
  • Write access to its own section (own IM TT)
  • Reject dossier
• IMs
  • Read-only access to the whole dossier
  • Write access to its own section (own IM TT)
• C-OSS
  • Read-only access to the whole dossier timetable area
  • The leading role only to promote the dossier 

OTHER DETAILS

Read-only access to Applicants after Draft Offer Deadline

To give applicants transparent information in the path elaboration phase, all involved Applicants will have read-only access to the IM-timetable after the draft offer deadline for delayed dossiers.

The read-only access description 

• IM's acceptance indicator is green, the IM timetable will be visible
• IM's acceptance indicator is NOT green, the IM timetable will NOT be visible to Applicants. A warning message indicates that  " The offer is still in progress"
• In the Path Elaboration and in the Post-processing phases PCS displays the status of the acceptance indicators in "Control" or in "Basic Data" (at the participating companies section) to identify who is green, red, yellow, or blue. 

Withdraw dossier

If the Applicant needs to withdraw the path request, the Process type very much depends on when the action is done.  The Path Request Deadline is the reference date & time of this action.

Before Path Request Deadline

If the Applicant withdraws the path request and submits it again before the Path Request Deadline, it will have no impact on the process type of the dossier it stays unchanged.

All Applicants should check the dossier to make sure that the requirements for the Path Request Deadline are completed:

• Mandatory and missing parameters are fulfilled
• Calendar synchronozed
• All Applicants must have green lights

After the Path Request Deadline for the New Path Request

If an Applicant already submitted the path request and the withdrawal is done after the Path Request Deadline for the New Path Request, the dossier process type will change to Late Path Request!

Partially Harmonized Offer details

For a detailed description of the Partial Harmonization process, please visit our document.