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ERA Railway Terminology Collection

The ERA Railway Terminology Collection gathers terms and abbreviations that are contained in the EU legal framework for railway, technical documents produced by bodies which are engaged in the development of important evolution in the railway system and other relevant glossaries.

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The European Union Agency for Railways’ Railway Terminology Collection is a collection of existing terms aiming at supporting the sharing of information and harmonisation of terms in t he Single European Railway Area (SERA). It was created to facilitate the work of the Union institutions, representative bodies and national authorities. The terms and definitions contained within is meant purely as a documentation tool and have no legal effect. Where available, the Agency strives to provide a link to official texts with legal effect. The European Union Agency for Railways does not assume any liability for RTC’s contents. Only documents published in official sources (such as in the EU Official Journal or in sources of standardisation bodies) must be referenced to ensure conformity to the rules therein. The European Union Agency for Railways is not obliged to keep the RTC updated and cannot guarantee that the terms in the RTC are up to date. The terms and definitions in the RTC are drawn from different sources and may be subject to copyright and intellectual property rights of their respective authors and other third parties. Most documents owned by the European Union are freely available, many of them under Creative Commons licenses, and can be downloaded and reproduced provided the source is acknowledged, however, please check their respective copyright notices. Please, also see Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents. EUR-Lex metadata is dedicated to the public domain in accordance with the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication deed.
Term Context Document Type Origin document

IMCO

EU Policy

EU Technical Document

Technical document from the Publications Office of the European Union - ‘Style guide’ Coordination Interinstitutional Style Guide - Annex 4

IMDG

EU Policy

Glossary

Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019

IMDG Code

International Relations

Convention

Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) Appendix C – Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID)

IMF

EU Policy

EU Technical Document

Technical document from the Publications Office of the European Union - ‘Style guide’ Coordination Interinstitutional Style Guide - Annex 4

IMI

EU Policy

EU Technical Document

Technical document from the Publications Office of the European Union - ‘Style guide’ Coordination Interinstitutional Style Guide - Annex 4

Immediate Action Limit

Infrastructure

TSI

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1299/2014 of 18 November 2014 on the technical specifications for interoperability relating to the ‘infrastructure’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union

Immediate intentional palm operation

Persons with Reduced Mobility

Guide

Guide for the appllication of PRM TSI - application_guide - GUI/PRM TSI/2023 - vers. 2.0 of 08.12.2023

Immediate level transition order

ERTMS

Technical Document

ERTMS/ETCS - Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations - version : 4.0.0 - date 05/07/2023

IMO

EU Policy

EU Technical Document

Technical document from the Publications Office of the European Union - ‘Style guide’ Coordination Interinstitutional Style Guide - Annex 4

IMO

Withdrawn

Glossary

Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System Glossary

IMO

International Relations

Convention

Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) Appendix C – Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID)

IMO

EU Policy

Glossary

Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019

IMP

EU Policy

EU Technical Document

Technical document from the Publications Office of the European Union - ‘Style guide’ Coordination Interinstitutional Style Guide - Annex 4

Impact

Freight

Glossary

Transport of dangerous goods. Risks Management Framework. Framework glossary v. 1.0/2018

Impact of the environment on the vehicle

Interoperability

Decision

Commission Decision of 30 November 2009 on the reference document referred to in Article 27(4) of Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community. (2009/965/EC)

Impact of the vehicle on the environment

Interoperability

Decision

Commission Decision of 30 November 2009 on the reference document referred to in Article 27(4) of Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community. (2009/965/EC)

Impartiality

EU Policy

Regulation

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities

Impedance between wheels

Control-Command and Signalling

ERA Technical Document

Technical document ERA/ERTMS/033281 Interfaces between Control-command and signalling trackside . V. 4.0, 2018

Implementation plan

Freight

Regulation

Regulation (EU) No 913/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 concerning a European rail network for competitive freight

Implementing rules

EU Policy

Glossary

EU budget glossary - A list of the most common words and useful terms concerning the EU budget