Merge pull request #19 from OpenRailAssociation/add-osrd-section

Add OSRD annual report

2024/0700-projects.md

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 ### Open Source Railway Designer (OSRD)
 
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 OSRD is an open source web application for railway infrastructure design, capacity analysis, timetabling and simulation and short term path request.
 

2024/0710-osrd.md

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 ### Open Source Railway Designer {.project}
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+## 1. Domain and Business Requirement
+
+### Operational studies
+
+Operation studies assess the ability of infrastructures to meet demand, and balance infrastructure capacity with transportation needs. They enable informed public infrastructure investment decisions. They therefore need a tool that can simulate and visualize trains capacity on a prospective infrastructure.
+
+### Short term capacity management
+
+Even though most train paths are allocated years before operations, a growing part is allocated shortly before the planned departure time. This change is largely due to growing demand for rail freight.
+It is therefore necessary for a railway company to get answers to its freight train path requests quickly, and this cannot be achieved without a tool that automates this process.
+
+## 2. Functionality
+
+**Core Features:**
+- Running time calculation
+- Signaling and conflict simulation
+- Infrastructure edition
+- Rolling stock edition
+
+**Key Strengths:**
+- Simulation speed: STDCM can be found in less than 1 minute and large timetable (more than 15000 trains) can be loaded in a single scenario.
+- Design and simplicity: Our interface is simple and visually pleasing, which enhances our users' results.
+
+## 3. Technology
+
+OSRD is a web application. We use modern, industrialized technologies.
+
+**Technology Stack:**
+- Core (backend): Kotlin & Java
+- Editoast (backend): Rust (axum)
+- Osrdyne (scaling component): Rust (axum)
+- Gateway: Rust (actix)
+- Message broker: RabbitMQ
+- Databases: Postgresql & Valkey
+- Frontend: React
+
+**Architecture:**
+
+// TODO: Include architecture schema.
+
+## 4. Adoption and Community
+
+OSRD is deployed at SNCF réseau and used for our two use cases.
+
+**User Adoption:**
+- Used by 4 Railway Companies
+- Used by ~25 railway study operators at SNCF Réseau
+
+**Community Engagement:**
+- We work closely with NetzgraphikEditor. Which has been integrated into the application.
+- We handle the small number of external contributions.
+- We ensure that our frontend components can be imported in other projects. Some projects are starting to use them.
+
+## 5. Potential and Future Perspective
+
+**Usage:**
+- We should have 40 companies using OSRD for STDCM by the end of march 2025
+- More railway study operators at SNCF Réseau users should use OSRD
+- We are in contact with several infrastructure managers other than SNCF Réseau who are interested in OSRD.
+
+**Future Enhancements:**
+- Ensure that our timetables can handle paced trains.
+- Add signaling systems such as ETCS
+- Make STDCM find more solutions by managing overtake.
+
+## 6. Reached Milestones
+
+In 2024, we achieved several major objectives:
+- Revamp our user interface with brand new components.
+- Easy import and export of timetable.
+- Major stabilization of our functionalities to be able to open the application to our first users.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+OSRD project has made significant progress in 2024. With a revamped user interface, enhanced timetable management, and stabilized functionalities, OSRD has been successfully adopted by our first users at SNCF Réseau and a few railway companies.
+
+Looking ahead, we aim to expand our user base to 40 companies by March 2025 and continue enhancing features like paced train handling and additional signaling systems. OSRD's open-source nature fosters collaboration and innovation, positioning it as a key tool for optimizing railway operations and infrastructure management.