The aim of the TARO project is to increase capacity, productivity, and quality of the rail system with innovative solutions. Over a running period of more than 3 years and bringing together 17 partners – railway operators, railway infrastructure manager as well as industry and scientific partners – technologies are developed in one single, integrated R&D project. The project is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and is embedded into different national and international R&D projects and programmes such as Rail4Future, DAC4EU and Europe´s Rail Joint Undertaking.