Online Sessions: Onboarding & Training
Graphical User Interface* Scope
*Graphical User Interface (GUI) = a PCS web application used by the majority of PCS users via a specific link; prerequisite is an active user account
PCS Capacity Broker
Freight Path Requests
(with and without PaPs)
5 Feb 2026
10:00-12:00 & 14:00-16:00
- Path Request creation from published RFC capacity; PaP search, adding a PaP to existing Path Requests, and tailor-made creation of Path Requests
- 10-12
- Part 1: Terminology run-through
- Part 2: Views of the PCS Capacity Broker; relevant for freight Applicants, answering “Where is what”
- Part 3: Creating a Reference Train (dossier) from 0 (Tailor-made) reminder
- 14-16
- Part 4: PaPs (search and search filters, RFCs names, PaP IDs sort, catalogues)
- Part 5: Creating a Path Request from PaP search
- Part 6: Adding a PaP to existing Path Requests
- Part 7: Harmonisation control basics and IDs
- 10-12
- Target audience: Freight Applicants
PCS Capacity Broker
Intermediate PaP usage
5 March 2026
09:00-12:00 & 14:00-16:00
- Intermediate PaP usage
- Part 0: Search with the Core element of TR ID, filters and labels details (navigation within, additional hints)
- Part 1: Creating a Path Request from PaP search -> combined PaPs, different handovers/ within one Reference trains, advanced features of creation steps
- Part 2: Adding a feeder and outflow locations and territories, territory split and merger – advanced management of “Journey”
- Part 3: Combination of tailor-made PRs and PaP locations, Fix/Flex limitations
- Part 4: Control (downgrades) and sending a Path Request by LA
- Target audience: Freight Applicants
PCS Capacity Broker
Advanced usage and complex business needs
6 March 2026
09:00-12:00
- Advanced PCS usage and complex business needs; resolving inconsistencies, features valuable before the PR deadline
- Part 1: Inconsistencies in calendar, times, variations, and manual connection (12h issue, skipping territory)
- Part 2: IDs and other TAF TAP TSI particularities (PR split…)
- Part 3: hints and tools (Canvas, “changes”)…
- Part 4: Assigning an RU as a non-RU applicant
- Part 5: PCS CB expected improvements
- Target audience: Passenger and Freight Applicants
PCS Capacity Broker
Receiving Path Requests
11 March 2026
10:00-12:00 & 14:00-16:00
- Receiving Path Requests, Path Elaboration and IM tasks until the end of the process without and with PaPs
- Target audience: IMs/ABs
PCS Capacity Broker
Pre-booking Phase
14 April 2026
10:00-12:00
- duration of Pre-booking Phase, Alternative PaP offers, PaPs in Late Path Request
- Target audience: Freight Applicants
PCS Capacity Broker
Last phase of process
22 April 2026
10:00-12:00 & 14:00-16:00
- Continuation of the process to the end, comparison of Path Request to draft and final offers, final acceptance, LatePath Request, AdHoc, Path Changes
- Target audience: Passenger and Freight Applicants, IMs/ABs
Application Programming Interface* Scope
*Application Programming Interface (API) = TAF/TAP TSI interface of PCS, used by interfacing companies via RNE Common Interface (CI); prerequisite is a technical configuration
Questions & Answers Sessions
Audience: companies with an existing connection to PCS CB API or a planned production usage in 2026.
Scope: questions from the audience about PCS CB API (priority will be given to questions related to the Feasibility Study process, the New Path Request process and Late Path Request process). Questions shall be submitted to RNE PCS Support (support.pcs@rne.eu) at least 72 hours before the session. The session will be closed once all questions have been addressed.
Location: Online (links to the MS Teams calls will be sent by RNE PCS Support to the registered participants).
Registration for attendance: required.
PCS Capacity Broker
API Question & Answer Session 1
9 Jan 2026
10:00-12:00
online
no attendance
PCS Capacity Broker
API Question & Answer Session 2
15 Jan 2026
09:00-11:00
online
no attendance
PCS Capacity Broker
API Question & Answer Session 3
23 Jan 2026
09:00-11:00
online
no attendance
PCS Capacity Broker
API Question & Answer Session 4
28 Jan 2026
14:00-16:00
online
Hotline Sessions
Audience: companies with an existing connection to PCS CB API or a planned production usage in 2026.
Scope: questions from the audience about PCS CB API related to the Feasibility Study process, the New Path Request process and Late Path Request process. Optional submission of questions to RNE PCS Support before the session (72 hours before the session). The hotline will be available until the end of the session.
Location: online.
Registration for attendance: required. Registration form.
Link to the hotline Teams call will be sent by RNE PCS Support to the registered participants. There is no obligation for the registered participants to use the holtine.
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 1
29 Jan 2026
09:00-11:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 2
6 Feb 2026
10:00-12:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 3
12 Feb 2026
14:00-16:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 4
19 Feb 2026
09:00-11:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 5
26 Feb 2026
09:00-11:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 6
4 March 2026
14:00-16:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 7
12 March 2026
10:00-12:00
online
PCS Capacity Broker
API Hotline Session 8
20 March 2026
09:00-11:00
online
Training Sessions
Audience: companies with an existing connection to PCS CB API or a planned implementation
Scope: Ad Hoc Path Request process, Path Modification process, Path Alteration process, Path Cancellation process
Location: online.
Registration for attendance: required. Registration form.
From 28.04.2026 until 30.04.2026: exact timings will be published by 09.01.2026.
PCS Capacity Broker
API Training Session
28-30 April 2026
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online
In-person Sessions: Onboarding & Training
In cooperation with the Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs)
- Target audience: Freight Applicants and IM/ABs
The Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs) in cooperation with RailNetEurope (RNE) are pleased to invite you to the PCS Trainings scheduled in early 2026.
The training sessions will focus on the freight-specific functions in PCS-CB, providing you with valuable, practical insights needed for allocating capacity on the RFCs for timetable 2027.
In person PCS Trainings 2026: These sessions will be held physically only and include the chance to practice live with individual corridor-specific exercises.
Explanations in local languages might be possible. Registration for attendance is required.
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 1
11-12 Feb 2026
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Brussels
Infrabel HQ
jointly organised by RFCs Atlantic, North Sea-Rhine-Mediterranean & Mediterranean
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 2
18-19 Feb 2026
time tba
Sopron
location tba
jointly organised by RFCs Baltic-Adriatic, Rhine-Danube and Alpine-Western Balkan
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 3
24-25 Feb 2026
time tba
Berlin
DB Systel
jointly organised by RFCs North Sea-Rhine-Mediterranean, North Sea-Baltic, Rhine-Danube and Scandinavian-Mediterranean
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 4
2-3 March 2026
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Milano
RFC Med premises
jointly organised by RFCs Baltic-Adriatic, Mediterranean and Scandinavian-Mediterranean
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 5
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time tba
location tba
jointly organised by RFC North Sea-Baltic
Find the contact details of the C-OSS Managers of each RFC on the RNE Website.
In cooperation with Forum Train Europe (FTE)
RNE JO invites you to an in-person training session in the afternoon before the FTE Conference.
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 1
(FTE A Conference – Day 0)
12 Jan 2026
15:00-19:00
Ljubliana
exact location tba
- Scope: Feasibility Study process – start to finish
- Target audience: Passenger Applicants and IMs
PCS Capacity Broker
In-person Session 2
(FTE B Conference – Day 0)
16 March 2026
15:30-18:30
Ljubliana
exact location tba
- Target audience: passenger Applicants
- Scope:
- Finalisation of the Feasibility Study process (review of the Study Results)
- Main New Path Request: annual process and usage of the Study data
- How to resolve the most common inconsistencies before sending the Path Request in April
- usage of the relevant newly developed improvements (change requests)
On-site support for PCS CB usage will be provided during the conferences for any individual assistance.
Migration Information
Learn more about the migration from the PCS Envelope Concept to the PCS Capacity Broker before joining the training sessions!
Read the document sent to all active PCS users: New version of Path Coordination System to learn more about
- Why do we have a new version of PCS CB?
- How does the migration impact the international allocation processes started in PCS EC?
Additionally, important to know:
1. Recommended: Testing site with a generic company account for companies with a signed User Account
Open in an incognito browser window: https://cb-pre-prod-sandbox.rne.eu/pcs-cb/
2. Alternative: Testing site with copied production data, which you can access with your real company account (same as production)
Open in a normal browser window: https://cb-pre-prod.rne.eu/pcs-cb/
1. http://pcs-ec.rne.eu – read-only version is available from 14 November 2025, and will stay available until the end of the next running timetable period. Users can access it with their own production accounts used during the request for the annual TT 2026.
2. https://pcs-ec-test.rne.eu – testing site (previous “test1” will stay enabled for a short period after the migration, where the TT 2026 is the last editable timetable period. Generic company test accounts can be used for testing.
Archive – Past Online Training Sessions
General information: relevant for GUI & API usage
Introduction & Training Session
(general info about PCS CB version)
5 Nov 2025
10:00-12:00
- Terminology used in PCS CB, Testing environments explained, how to log in to PCS CB with your e-mail, EC vs CB layout, demonstration of the New Path Request process and overview of other processes, Reference Train (~Dossier) creation basics
- Target audience: Passenger and Freight Applicants, IMs/ABs, Interfacing companies
Graphical User Interface Scope
PCS Capacity Broker
Basic usage
(passenger focused)
6 Nov 2025
09:00-12:00
- Navigation through the application, multiple ways of Path Requests creation
- Target audience: Passenger Applicants
- Recording 1 – Dashboard, filters, labels
- Recording 2 – Manual creation, carry forward, frequency, duplication & GUI features: case reference and train composition
PCS Capacity Broker
Feasibility study process
8 Jan 2025
10:00-12:00
- Feasibility Study process – start to finish
- Target audience: Passenger Applicants
PCS Capacity Broker
IM usage in the Feasibility Study
21 Jan 2025
10:00-12:00
- Feasibility Study process – start to finish
- Target audience: Passenger Applicants
Application Programming Interface Scope
Training Sessions
Target audience: companies with an existing connection to PCS CB API and / or an implementation
Recommended prerequisites for attendance: familiarity with TAF/TAP TSI and PCS (Graphical User Interface and API)
Registration for attendance: link . Not mandatory but highly recommended for a more hands-on experience for the training participant already from the first training session. Registration deadline: 27.11.2025
On each session, at least 50 % of the time will be reserved for Questions and Answers.
Training material (common for all December training sessions)
PCS Capacity Broker
Feasibility Study Process
Session 1
2 Dec 2025
10:00-12:00
- Agenda: Feasibility Study process and Questions & Answers
PCS Capacity Broker
New Path Request Process
Session 2
3 Dec 2025
09:30-12:00
- Agenda: New Path Request process with pre-arranged paths (actions from Reference Train creation until end of the Harmonisation phase – Path request submission), PR split functionality, OffsetToReference functionality and Questions & Answers.
Session 3: Didn’t take place because of lack of participants.
PCS Capacity Broker
New Path Request Process
Session 4
9 Dec 2025
09:30-12:00
- Agenda: New Path Request process with pre-arranged paths (actions from Reference Train creation until end of the Harmonisation phase – Path request submission), PR split functionality, OffsetToReference functionality and Questions & Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
New Path Request Process
Session 5
10 Dec 2025
13:30-16:00
- Agenda: New Path Request process with pre-arranged paths (actions starting from the Observations submission until Allocation phase) and Questions & Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
New Path Request Process
Session 6
11 Dec 2025
09:00-11:00
- Agenda: New Path Request process with partial offer and partial harmonisation, and Questions & Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
New Path Request Process
Session 7
16 Dec 2025
09:00-11:00
- Agenda: Questions & Answers with priority given to questions about the topics addressed during the December API training sessions.
Question and Answer Sessions
Meeting material: PCS CB API – November Q&A Sessions
PCS Capacity Broker API
Question & Answer Session
Session 1
24 Nov 2025
10:00-11:30
PCS Capacity Broker API
Question & Answer Session
Session 2
26 Nov 2025
14:00-15:00
PCS Capacity Broker API
Question & Answer Session
Session 3
27 Nov 2025
10:00-11:30
Introduction and Training Sessions
PCS Capacity Broker
Introduction & Training Session
Session 1
5 Nov 2025
13:00-15:00
- Agenda: Introduction to the November series of introduction and training sessions, API documentation overview, system overview, documentation focus: technical specifications, live demonstration, and Questions and Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
Introduction & Training Session
Session 2
6 Nov 2025
12:45-14:45
- Agenda: Documentation focus: PCS CB API – First steps for connecting, live demonstration, and Questions and Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
Introduction & Training Session
Session 3
7 Nov 2025
09:00-11:00
- Agenda: Questions and Answers (priority scope: topics of sessions 1 to 3).
PCS Capacity Broker
Introduction & Training Session
Session 4
10 Nov 2025
10:00-12:00
- Agenda: Documentation focus: PCS CB API – Testing Guide, live demonstration, Questions and Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
Introduction & Training Session
Session 5
12 Nov 2025
13:00-15:00
- Agenda: Live demonstration, Questions and Answers.
PCS Capacity Broker
Introduction & Training Session
Session 6
13 Nov 2025
13:00-15:00
- Agenda: Questions and Answers (priority scope: topics of sessions 1 and 5).
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact RNE PCS Support at support.pcs@rne.eu.
