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
Accepted TSI compliant panto graph heads	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
Access	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)
Access party	Telematics Applications for Passenger	TSI	Commission Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 of 5 May 2011 on the technical specification for interoperability relating to the subsystem ‘telematics applications for passenger services’ of the trans-European rail system
Access step	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
Access to driver's cab	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)
Access to reference data	Telematics Applications for Passenger	Guide	TAP TSI Annex B.56 RU/IM Communication application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013
Access, egress and doors	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)
Accident	Freight	Glossary	Transport of dangerous goods. Risks Management Framework. Framework glossary v. 1.0/2018
Accident	Operation	TSI	Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 of 16 May 2019 on the technical specification for interoperability relating to the operation and traffic management subsystem of the rail system within the European Union and repealing Decision 2012/757/EU
Accident	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Accident	Common Safety Method	Guide	Safety management system requirements for safety certification or safety authorisation. Version 1.3 Manuscript completed in April 2021
Accident	Safety / SSC-SA	Directive	Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety (recast)
Accident involving the transport of dangerous goods	Safety / SSC-SA	Directive	Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety (recast)
Accident involving the transport of dangerous goods	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Accident to persons caused by rolling stock in motion	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Accident to persons involving rolling stock in motion	Safety / SSC-SA	Directive	Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety (recast)
Accidents to persons caused by rolling stock in motion	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary
Accommodation	Telematics Applications for Passenger	Guide	TAP TSI Annex B.52 Reservation application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013
Accountable	EU Policy	Decision	Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission
Accounting	EU Policy	Glossary	EU budget glossary - A list of the most common words and useful terms concerning the EU budget

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