This report is the first deliverable in Work package (WP) 2 ‘Real-time Yard Management’ of the Automated Rail Cargo Consortium (ARCC) project. In WP 2 research and innovation activities lead to the analysis, understanding and definition of efficient business processes and a common understanding of decision processes and their optimisation and automation potential, focused on Marshalling yards and the interaction between Network/line management and the operations management in Marshalling yards and Terminals.