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
Radioactive contents	International Relations	Convention	Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) Appendix C – Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID)
Radiodetermination	ERTMS	Directive	Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
Rail coach	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail Facilities Portal (RFP)	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2023
Rail Freight Corridor (RFC)	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2023
Rail freight terminal	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail freight transport	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary
Rail inclination	Infrastructure	Regulation	Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/777 of 16 May 2019 on the common specifications for the register of railway infrastructure and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU
Rail inclination	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
Rail infrastructure	Common Safety Method	Guide	Safety management system requirements for safety certification or safety authorisation. Version 1.3 Manuscript completed in April 2021
Rail infrastructure manager	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail loading gauge	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail Market Monitoring Scheme (RMMS)	Infrastructure	Glossary	European Rail Infrastructure Managers
Rail Net Europe (RNE)	Infrastructure	Glossary	European Rail Infrastructure Managers
Rail pad	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
Rail passenger	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail passenger	EU Policy	Regulation	Regulation (EU) 2018/643 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on rail transport statistics
Rail passenger disembarked	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail passenger embarked	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rail passenger journey	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019

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