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Unit E-3: Transport Statistics

Rail Transport statistics methodology –

Guidelines for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail transport statistics

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Version 8.02 – January 2016

ForewordThe adoption of Regulation 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council in December 2002 marked an important step forward in the evolution of transport statistics in the European Union. This Regulation provides a legal base for the collection of a wide range of data on rail freight and passengers transport as well as on accidents and traffic flows on the network. These Guidelines aim to provide detailed guidance for Member States in the implementation of Regulation 91/2003. This guidance falls into three parts:

Part A : recommendations and methodology for data collection Part B : rules for transmission of data Part C : dissemination of data by Eurostat

Some of the recommendations in these Guidelines are not legally binding, but form part of the voluntary co-operation between Eurostat and Member States, based on a common interest in improving the quality of Community statistics. However, subject in each case to the agreement of the Statistical Programme Committee, certain aspects of these recommendations were already incorporated into the first legally binding Commission. A Regulation (1192/2003) was adopted for the definition of variables.

The IT systems related to the various modes of transport are gradually integrated by Eurostat within TRIS (TRansport Information System). The overall purpose of TRIS is the progressive integration of Eurostat transport statistics into one unique, standard and comprehensive production environment (storage, validation, reporting and analysis) and tool. As the rail transport IT system is processing confidential statistical data, the rail module of TRIS has been implemented in the EUROSTAT secured IT environment in October 2012.

TRIS with its framework, based on a state of the art Information System Architecture and using the latest technologies is the key for the integration and interfacing of all transport statistics systems with the central common EUROSTAT and COMMISSION (information) systems. The different versions of TRIS target to be ready for the needs generated by the re-engineering of the statistical production system in Europe as part of the new challenges defined inside the European Statistical System (ESS) aimed at meeting the requests for more integrated statistics having their origin in the evolving European policies.

These Guidelines also include precisions on the validation rules applied for the different datasets in the frame of the data quality checks and updated links to reference and methodological documents.

In order to enhance the quality of the data and to ensure the coherence of the figures on rail transport, various validation rules have been implemented by Eurostat. All the validation rules applied to each table are detailed in these Guidelines.

The Guidelines and related documents are available in electronic formats on Eurostat's CIRCABC web site in the Transport Interest Group, at: https://circabc.europa.eu.

A user-id and password for the Transport Interest Group can be obtained from Eurostat.

Eurostat E3 – Transport Unit

Please address comments and questions relating to these Guidelines to:

Stefania Panaitescu +352 4301 38 357European Commission EUROSTAT Unit - Transport Statistics L-2920 Luxembourgfax: +352 4301 32 839Email:[email protected] or [email protected]

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................. 61. Regulation no 91/2003.......................................................................................................................... 72. Structure of the Guidelines...................................................................................................................9

PART A .............................................................................................................................................. 10Recommendations and methodology for data collection...........................................................................10

Chapter 1: General concepts and definitions.....................................................................................131.0 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 141.1 Definitions related to Regulation 1192/2003, article 1 (see annex 2)................................141.2 Definition of common variables of Annexes A to I............................................................151.3 Remarks on methodology.................................................................................................231.4 Methodology for compiling rail freight transport statistics ................................................28

Chapter 2: Description of the Annex A...........................................................................................362.0 Overview of the Annex A..................................................................................................372.1 Description of table A1.....................................................................................................432.2 Description of table A2.....................................................................................................462.3 Description of table A3.....................................................................................................492.4 Description of table A4.....................................................................................................552.5 Description of table A5.....................................................................................................582.6 Description of table A6.....................................................................................................612.7 Description of table A7.....................................................................................................662.8 Description of table A8.....................................................................................................702.9 Description of table A9.....................................................................................................74

Chapter 3: Description of the Annex B................................................................................................763.0 Overview of the Annex B..................................................................................................773.1 Description of table B1.....................................................................................................783.2 Description of table B2.....................................................................................................81

Chapter 4: Description of the Annex C................................................................................................834.0 Overview of the Annex C..................................................................................................844.1 Description of table C1.....................................................................................................864.2 Description of table C2.....................................................................................................894.3 Description of table C3.....................................................................................................934.4 Description of table C4.....................................................................................................974.5 Description of table C5...................................................................................................100

Chapter 5: Description of the Annex D..............................................................................................1035.0 Overview of the Annex D................................................................................................1045.1 Description of table D1...................................................................................................1055.2 Description of table D2...................................................................................................107

Chapter 6: Description of the Annex E..............................................................................................1096.0 Overview of the Annex E................................................................................................1106.1 Description of table E1...................................................................................................1116.2 Description of table E2...................................................................................................115

Chapter 7: Description of the Annex F..............................................................................................1197.0 Overview of the Annex F................................................................................................1207.1 Description of table F1....................................................................................................1257.2 Description of table F2....................................................................................................1287.3 Description of table F3....................................................................................................1317.4 Description of table F4....................................................................................................134

Chapter 8: Description of the Annex G..............................................................................................1378.0 Overview of the Annex G................................................................................................1388.1 Description of table G1...................................................................................................1418.2 Description of table G2...................................................................................................1448.3 Description of table G3...................................................................................................146

Chapter 9: Description of the Annex H..............................................................................................1489.0 Overview of the Annex H................................................................................................149



9.1 Description of table H1...................................................................................................1539.2 Description of table H2...................................................................................................1569.3 Description of table H3...................................................................................................1599.4 Description of table H4...................................................................................................163

Chapter 10: Description of the Annex I...............................................................................................16710.0 Overview of the Annex I.................................................................................................168

PART B ................................................................................................................................................... 179Rules for transmission of data to Eurostat...................................................................................................179

Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission......................................................................................18111.0 General presentation of eDAMIS....................................................................................18211.1 eDAMIS Help Centre......................................................................................................18311.2 Field separator...............................................................................................................18411.3 Naming of data files........................................................................................................18411.4 Preparation of dataset and transmission data................................................................18411.5 Deadline for transmission of data...................................................................................188

Chapter 12: Validation of data...............................................................................................................18912.0 The PERAIL production process....................................................................................19012.1 The data validation.........................................................................................................19012.2 Data processing for dissemination..................................................................................192

PART C ................................................................................................................................................... 193Dissemination of data by Eurostat...............................................................................................................193

Chapter 13: Processing of confidential data in dissemination..........................................................195Chapter 14: Tables for dissemination..................................................................................................197

14.0 Tables from the Council Directive until 2002..................................................................19914.1 Tables from the Directive until 2002 and the Regulation since 2003..............................19914.2 Tables from the Common Questionnaire until 2002 and the Regulation since 2003......20014.3 Tables from the Regulation from 2003 onwards.............................................................200

Chapter 15: Eurostat Dissemination Database Classification plan...................................................201

Alphabetic reference list of variables..........................................................................................................205Annexes for rail transport statistics............................................................................................................208

Annex 1: Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of 16 December 2002 on rail transport statisticsAnnex 2: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1192/2003 of 3 July 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No

91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail transport statisticsAnnex 3: ISO-3166-alpha2 nomenclature Annex 4: List of the countries with which rail transit is unlikely to take placeAnnex 5: RID/ADR section 1.8.5



INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION



INTRODUCTION

1. Regulation N° 91/2003A number of Community legal acts dating from the 1970s and 1980s have provided basic statistical data on inland transport. Regulation N° 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council has been designed to provide the Commission, other Community Institutions and national governments with comparable, reliable, harmonised, regular and comprehensive statistical data on scale and development of the carriage of goods and passengers by rail necessary for framing, monitoring, controlling and evaluating Community policy. This is achieved by expanding certain essential aspects of the data collection previously under the Council Directive on rail goods transport statistics (80/1177/EEC). The major changes between the Directive and Regulation 91/2003 in the data collection are:

information on passengers transport, traffic flows and accidents on rail network; information on type of dangerous goods; information on type of transport unit; information on national and international goods and passenger transport at regional level

(NUTS 2); coverage of all railway operators; risks of some rail data being confidential.

This Regulation covers all railways in the Community. Each Member State shall report statistics which relate to rail transport on its national territory. Where a railway undertaking operates in more than one Member State, the national authorities concerned shall require the undertaking to provide data separately for each country in which it operates so as to enable national statistics to be compiled.

Member States may exclude from the scope of this Regulation: railway undertakings which operate entirely or mainly within industrial and similar installations,

including harbours; railway undertakings which mainly provide local tourist services, such as preserved historical

steam railways.

The statistics to be collected are set out in 9 Annexes. They cover the following types of data:

Annual statistics on goods transport — detailed reporting (Annex A);Annual statistics on goods transport — simplified reporting (Annex B);Annual statistics on passenger transport — detailed reporting (Annex C);Annual statistics on passenger transport — simplified reporting (Annex D);Quarterly statistics on goods and passenger transport (Annex E);Quinquennial regional statistics on goods and passenger transport (Annex F);Quinquennial statistics on traffic flows on the rail network (Annex G); Annual statistics on accidents (Annex H);Annual list of the railway undertakings for which statistics are provided (Annex I).

Annexes B and D set out simplified reporting requirements, which may be used by Member States as alternatives to the normal detailed reporting set out in Annexes A and C, for undertakings for which the total volume of goods or passenger transport is less than 500 million tonne-km or less than 200 million passenger-km. These thresholds may be adapted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 11(2).

Member States shall designate a public or private organisation to participate in collecting the data required under this Regulation. The necessary data may be obtained using any combination of the sources (compulsory surveys, administrative data, including data collected by regulatory authorities, statistical estimation procedures, data supplied by professional organisations in the rail industry, ad hoc studies).



INTRODUCTIONThe rail statistics Regulation is implemented according to a transmission calendar. The first sets of annual data (Tables A1–A3 and Table I1), with the 2003 reference year, came in 2004. The first quarterly data (Table E1–E2), with the Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4–2003 reference quarters, came in 2004.

The second sets of annual data (Tables A4–A9, Tables B1–B2, Tables C1–C2, C5, D1–D2, H1–H4), with the 2004 reference year, came in 2005. The third set of annual data (Tables C3–C4), with the 2004 reference year, came in 2006. These sets of data are being continued since then. Finally, the last datasets according to the Regulation and related to Annexes F and G started arriving at Eurostat for the first time in December 2006 (Tables F1–F4) and in June 2007 (Tables G1–G3), both referring to year 2005. It is however worth noting that the two last annexes (F and G) are quinquennial surveys (reference years 2005, 2010, 2015…).

The text of Regulation 91/2003 of the Parliament and of the Council is included as Annex 1 of these Guidelines. Commission Regulation 1192/2003, included as Annex 2 of this Guidelines, amends the definitions specified in article 3 (1) of Regulation 91/2003. Commission Regulation (EC) No 332/2007 adopted on 27 March 2007 is included as Annex 3 of these Guidelines and stipulates the technical format for rail data transmission.



INTRODUCTION

2. Structure of the GuidelinesThese Guidelines provide detailed information to support the implementation of Regulation 91/2003 in Member States. This information is structured as follows:

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collection

The aim of Part A of the Guidelines is to provide general guidelines for the execution of the Regulation. General information, definitions and structure of tables of each annex to be provided are described. Although the Regulation itself provides some definitions and some comments on methodology, experience in implementing statistical legislation has shown that it is useful to provide additional information to assist countries and to promote harmonisation in the collection of statistical data.

This part of the Guidelines therefore provides a systematic reference for all variables in the Regulation, with definitions, additional explanations (nomenclature and codification to be used) and recommendations. The status of this information varies. Some parts are taken directly from the Regulation, while others have been proposed by Eurostat and have been validated by the Working Group members.

Methodological questions formulated by data providers are also presented here. This part of the Guidelines is continuously updated to reflect experience gained in the implementation of the Regulation. Wherever possible, reference is also made to the Glossary for Transport Statistics (4th edition) (see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/other_documents/transport_glossary_4_ed/index.cfm?TargetUrl=DSP_TRANSPORT_GLOSSARY_4_ED).

Part B: Rules for transmission of data to Eurostat

Part B of the Guidelines provides guidance on the technical aspects of data transmission to Eurostat. It covers elements such as the presentation of eDAMIS, the naming convention for the data files and the data transmission. It also covers the production system used by Eurostat to process the data and the validation checks of the data carried out by Eurostat.

Part C: Dissemination of data by Eurostat

Part C of the Guidelines deals with tables of the data disseminated by Eurostat subject to the constraints of confidentiality.



http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/other_documents/transport_glossary_4_ed/index.cfm?TargetUrl=DSP_TRANSPORT_GLOSSARY_4_ED



PART A

Recommendations and methodology for data collection




PART A - Table of contentsRecommendations and methodology for data collection

Chapter 1: General concepts and definitions............................................................................................131.0 Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 141.1 Definitions related to Regulation 1192/2003, article 1 (see annex 2)..................................................141.2 Definition of common variables of Annexes A to I...............................................................................151.3 Remarks on methodology................................................................................................................... 231.4 Methodology for compiling rail freight transport statistics ...................................................................28

Chapter 2: Description of the Annex A.......................................................................................................362.0 Overview of the Annex A.................................................................................................................... 372.1 Description of table A1........................................................................................................................ 432.2 Description of table A2........................................................................................................................ 462.3 Description of table A3........................................................................................................................ 492.4 Description of table A4........................................................................................................................ 552.5 Description of table A5........................................................................................................................ 582.6 Description of table A6........................................................................................................................ 612.7 Description of table A7........................................................................................................................ 662.8 Description of table A8........................................................................................................................ 702.9 Description of table A9........................................................................................................................ 74

Chapter 3: Description of the Annex B.......................................................................................................763.0 Overview of the Annex B.................................................................................................................... 773.1 Description of table B1........................................................................................................................ 783.2 Description of table B2........................................................................................................................ 81

Chapter 4: Description of the Annex C.......................................................................................................834.0 Overview of the Annex C.................................................................................................................... 844.1 Description of table C1........................................................................................................................ 864.2 Description of table C2........................................................................................................................ 894.3 Description of table C3........................................................................................................................ 934.4 Description of table C4........................................................................................................................ 97Description of table C5................................................................................................................................. 100

Chapter 5: Description of the Annex D.....................................................................................................1035.0 Overview of the Annex D.................................................................................................................. 1045.1 Description of table D1...................................................................................................................... 1055.2 Description of table D2...................................................................................................................... 107

Chapter 6: Description of the Annex E.....................................................................................................1096.0 Overview of the Annex E.................................................................................................................. 1106.1 Description of table E1...................................................................................................................... 1116.2 Description of table E2...................................................................................................................... 115

Chapter 7: Description of the Annex F.....................................................................................................1197.0 Overview of the Annex F................................................................................................................... 1207.1 Description of table F1...................................................................................................................... 1257.2 Description of table F2...................................................................................................................... 1287.3 Description of table F3...................................................................................................................... 1317.4 Description of table F4...................................................................................................................... 134

Chapter 8: Description of the Annex G.....................................................................................................1378.0 Overview of the Annex G.................................................................................................................. 1388.1 Description of table G1..................................................................................................................... 1418.2 Description of table G2..................................................................................................................... 1448.3 Description of table G3..................................................................................................................... 146

Chapter 9: Description of the Annex H.....................................................................................................1489.0 Overview of the Annex H.................................................................................................................. 1499.1 Description of table H1...................................................................................................................... 1539.2 Description of table H2...................................................................................................................... 156




9.3 Description of table H3...................................................................................................................... 1599.4 Description of table H4...................................................................................................................... 163

Chapter 10: Description of the Annex I.......................................................................................................16710.0 Overview of the Annex I.................................................................................................................... 168



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 1: General concepts and definitions

Chapter 1: General concepts and definitions




Chapter 1: General concepts and definitions

1.0 Introduction

Eurostat is using IT1 tools from the beginning of the implementation of the rail statistics Regulation. The main reasons for this approach are as follows:

quality of the data is better if manual intervention is avoided as much as possible, delays from delivery to dissemination are minimised and Eurostat's resources can be used more effectively if no manual data entry is needed.

Eurostat strongly believes that the same arguments are valid in the Member States as well. Additionally, Eurostat can provide free of charge more and more user-friendly tools that facilitate the automation of the validations and the data flow.

The table below aims at clarifying the text of the Regulation on the one hand and the proposed data transmission structure on the other.

Rail statistics Regulation Data structure for file deliveriesAnnex, for example Annex A Dataset, corresponding to one fileTable, for example A1 Several records in one dataset, identified by the field

"DsetID" in each recordOne "line" of a table, for example tonnes and tonne-km of national transport reported by a particular country according to Table A1

Record

Variable, for example tonnes of national transport reported by a particular country according to Table A1

Value of a field in a record

These Guidelines suggest one dataset for each of the Annexes A to I in a flat file format. The current proposal details file structures for all Annexes A to I. As each Annex may contain several Tables, only the Fields of each Record relevant to one table are filled-in at a time. Other fields are left empty which explains the number of consecutive semi-colons (";") in the examples. There is a 1 to 1 relation (bijection) between the Annexes of the Regulation and the data files to be transmitted to Eurostat.

1.1 Definitions related to Regulation 1192/2003, article 1 (see annex 2)

National authorities mean national statistical institutes and other bodies responsible in each Member State for producing Community statistics.

Railway means line of communication made up by rail exclusively for the use of railway vehicles.

Railway vehicle means mobile equipment running exclusively on rails, moving either under its own power (tractive vehicles) or hauled by another vehicle (coaches, railcar trailers, vans and wagons).

Railway undertaking means any public or private undertaking which provides services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail. Undertakings whose only business is to provide services for the transport of passengers by metro, tram and/or light rail are excluded.

Transport of goods by rail means the movement of goods using railway vehicles between the place of loading and the place of unloading.

Transport of passengers by rail means the movement of passengers using railway vehicles between the place of embarkation and the place of disembarkation. The transport of passengers by metro, tram and/or light rail is excluded.

1 IT stands for Information Technology




Metro (also known as “subway”, “metropolitan railway” or “underground”) means an electric railway for the transport of passengers with the capacity for a heavy volume of traffic and characterised by exclusive rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed and rapid acceleration, sophisticated signalling as well as the absence of level crossings to allow a high frequency of trains and high platform load. Metros are also characterised by closely spaced stations, normally meaning a distance of 700 to 1 200 m between the stations. “High speed” refers to the comparison with trams and light rail, and means here approximately 30 to 40 km/ h on shorter distances, 40 to 70 km/h on longer distances.

Tram (streetcar) means a passenger road vehicle designed to seat more than nine persons (including the driver), which is connected to electric conductors or powered by diesel engine and which is rail-borne.

Light rail means a railway for the transport of passengers that often uses electrically powered rail-borne cars operating singly or in short trains on fixed duo-rail lines. There is generally a distance of less than 1 200 m between stations/stops. In comparison to metros, light rail is more lightly constructed, is designed for lower traffic volumes and usually travels at lower speeds. It is sometimes difficult to make a precise distinction between light rail and trams; trams are generally not separated from road traffic, whereas light rail may be separated from other systems.

Rail passenger means any person, excluding members of the train crew, who makes a trip by rail. For accident statistics, passengers trying to embark/disembark onto/ from a moving train are included.

1.2 Definition of common variables of Annexes A to I

Reporting countryComputer record field reference <RCount>

First reference in RegulationReferred to as Member State in Article 2.

DefinitionA reporting country is a Member State of the European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA). Candidate Countries (CC) and other countries participating in rail transport statistics data provisions to Eurostat are also regaded as reporting countries.

Classification and Codes to be usedReporting countries are coded as in ISO-3166-alpha2, except “EL” for Greece and "UK" for the United Kingdom. These are given in bold in Annex 3 of these Guidelines, and are also available in CIRCABC and in Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).

Table identification Computer record field reference <DsetID>

First reference in RegulationAnnex A

DefinitionTable identification is the name of the data table.




Codes to be usedThe first digit must be the name of the Annex (A to I) and the second one, the Table number.

Annex Number of tables Codes

A 9 A1 to A9

B 2 B1 to B2

C 5 C1 to C5

D 2 D1 to D2

E 2 E1 to E2

F 4 F1 to F4

G 3 G1 to G3

H 4 H1 to H4

I 1 I1

Year Computer record field reference <Year>

First reference in RegulationReferred to as Annual in Article 4

DefinitionThe time occupied by one revolution of the earth around the sun (Source of definition – Dictionary).

Explanation and examplesFor the purposes of the Regulation a year has to relate exactly to a calendar year (1.1-31.12).

Codes to be usedThe four numerical digits of the year should be used.

That is, 2004; 2005; 2006, 2007, etc. as relevant.

Period Computer record field reference <Period>

First reference in RegulationArticle 4

DefinitionPeriod corresponds to the duration of the reference time interval.

Explanation and examplesFor the purposes of the Regulation, it is the relevant calendar quarter of a year or the calendar year.




Classification and Codes to be used

Label Dates CodeFirst quarter of a year (1.1-31.3) Q1Second quarter of a year (1.4-30.6) Q2Third quarter of a year (1.7-30.9) Q3Fourth quarter of a year (1.10-31.12) Q4A year (1.1-31.12) A0

Flag of confidentiality Computer record field reference <FlagC>

First reference in RegulationArticle 7

DefinitionThe flag of confidentiality indicate if data provided is considered confidential by the Member State or not (confidentiality laws no 322/97, Art. 13 §1 and no 1588/90, Art. 2).

Council Regulation (EC) no 322/97, Art. 13 § 1:“Data used by the national authorities and the Community authority for the production of Community statistics shall be considered confidential when they allow statistical units to be identified, either directly or indirectly, thereby disclosing individual information.To determine whether a statistical unit is identifiable, account shall be taken of all the means that might reasonably be used by a third party to identify the said statistical unit.”

Council Regulation (EC) no 1588/90, Art. 2:”For the purposes of this Regulation, the terms given below are defined as follows:

confidential statistical data: data declared confidential by the Member States in line with national legislation or practices governing statistical confidentiality;

national authorities: national statistical institutes and other national bodies responsible for the collection and use of statistics for the Communities;

information on the private lives of natural persons: information on the private and family lives of natural persons as defined by national legislation or practices in the various Member States;

use for statistical purposes: use exclusively for the compilation of statistical tables or for statistical economic analyses; may not be used for administrative, legal or tax purposes or for verification against the units surveyed;

statistical unit: basic unit covered by statistical data transmitted to the SOEC2;

direct identification: identification of a statistical unit from its name or address, or from an officially allocated and published identification number;

indirect identification: possibility of deducing the identity of a statistical unit other than from the information mentioned in point 6;

officials of the SOEC: officials of the Communities, within the meaning of Article 1 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities, working at the SOEC;

2 Statistical Office of European Community (Eurostat).




other staff of the SOEC: servants of the Communities, within the meaning of Articles 2 to 5 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities, working at the SOEC;

dissemination: supply of data in any form whatever: publications, access to databases, microfiches, telephone communications, etc.”

Explanation and examplesThe national authorities shall make a request to such undertakings for permission to disclose the required data and shall inform Eurostat of the result of this request when data are transmitted to Eurostat. Confidentiality of the data is based on Member State's judgment.

Council Regulation (EC) no 1588/90, Art. 3:”The national authorities shall be authorised to transmit confidential statistical data to the SOEC.

1. National rules on statistical confidentiality may not be invoked to prevent the transmission of confidential statistical data to the SOEC where an act of Community law governing a Community statistic provides for the transmission of such data.

2. Transmission to the SOEC of confidential statistical data on the structure and activity of undertakings, collected before the entry into force of this Regulation, must be carried out in accordance with the rules and practices on statistical confidentiality in force in the Member States.

3. Transmission to the SOEC of confidential statistical data, within the meaning of paragraph 2, shall be carried out in such a way that statistical units cannot be directly identified. This does not preclude the admissibility of more far-reaching transmission rules in accordance with the legislation of the Member States.

4. National authorities shall not be obliged to transmit information on the private lives of natural persons to the SOEC if the information transmitted could enable those persons to be identified either directly or indirectly.”


Code Label1 Confidential0 Not Confidential

Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data Computer record field reference <FlagD>

First reference in RegulationArticle 7.

DefinitionThe flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data indicate if data provided by Member States can be disseminated or not (especially in Eurostat Dissemination Database) (confidentiality laws no 322/97, Art. 13 §2 and no 1588/90, Art. 5 §4).

Council Regulation (EC) no 322/97, Art. 13 § 2:“By derogation from paragraph 1, data taken from sources which are available to the public and remain available to the public at the national authorities according to national legislation, shall not be considered confidential.”




Council Regulation (EC) no 1588/90, Art. 5 § 4:“Confidential statistical data in the SOEC's possession may be disseminated only when combined with other data in a form which ensures that statistical units cannot be identified either directly or indirectly.”

Explanation and examplesFor the purposes of the Regulation, Community statistics based on the data specified in Annexes A to H to the Regulation shall be disseminated by Eurostat. In this context, and in view of the characteristics of the European railway market, data may be disclosed only if:

the data are already available to the public in the Member States, or the explicit approval for such disclosure has been given in advance by the undertakings

concerned.

The national authorities shall make a request to such undertakings for permission to disclose the required data and shall inform Eurostat of the result of this request when data are transmitted to Eurostat. The information reported in Annex I shall not be disseminated.

Nevertheless, the statistical law allows the Commission to change the Member State’s judgment: it can be done by Eurostat by changing FlagD=1 to FlagD=0 when FlagC=1.


Code Label1 Dissemination not authorised0 Dissemination authorised

Settings for FlagC and FlagDIn order to avoid any misunderstandings, Eurostat recommends setting FlagC and FlagD (for each record) according to the combinations proposed in the following table.

Reommended settings

FlagC FlagD1 1 In case data are confidential0 0 In case data are not confidential

Basically, this means that FlagC and FlagD should always contain the same information. The following combinations should be used exceptionally or avoided in the data provided, as they may generate problems of interpretation for data dissemination.

FlagC FlagD

1 0 Only for the data which may be disseminated when aggregated with other data (e.g. A1 + B1); setting to be consulted with Eurostat

0 1 Should be avoided

Weight Computer record field reference <Tonnes>.





DefinitionWeight means the quantity of goods in tonnes (1 000 kilograms). The weight to be taken into consideration includes, in addition to the weight of the goods transported, the weight of packaging and the tare weight of containers, swap bodies, pallets as well as road vehicles transported by rail in the course of combined transport operations. If the goods are transported using the services of more than one railway undertaking, when possible the weight of goods should not be counted more than once.

Source of definitionRegulation 1192/2003, Article 1-17

Explanation and examplesIn sending the data, the Member States shall use values in plain tonnes. Eurostat will round the figures to 1 000 tonnes for online and offline publications where needed.

Tonne-km per rail Computer record field reference <Tkm>

Alternative expressionKilometres loaded in rail transport, actual transport performance in rail transport.


DefinitionTonne-km means the unit of measure of goods transport which represents the transport of one tonne (1 000 kilograms) of goods by rail over a distance of one kilometre. Only the distance on the national territory of the reporting country shall be taken into account.


Explanation and examplesThe distance to be taken into consideration is the distance actually run (at the territory of the reporting country). It excludes the distance covered by the goods railway vehicle while being transported by another means of transport (e.g. ferry).

In sending the data, the Member States shall use values in 1 000 tonne-kilometres. Eurostat will round the figures to million tonne-kilometres for online and offline publications.

Passengers Computer record field reference <Pass>.

First reference in RegulationAnnex C




DefinitionNumber of passengers means the number of trips by rail passengers, where each trip is defined as the movement from the place of embarkation to the place of disembarkation, with or without transfers from one rail vehicle to another. If passengers use the services of more than one railway undertaking, when possible they should not be counted more than once.


Explanation and remarksThe calculation of passenger travel may not be exact. Passengers travelling from A to C with a changing of trains in B should be considered as one journey. Passengers who bought a ticket but did not travel should in principle not be counted.

In practice there may be no clear and easy solution. Eurostat will accept different methodologies but they have to be explained by the Member States in a document.

Explanation and examplesIn sending the data, the Member States shall use plain number of passengers. Eurostat will round the figures to 1 000 passengers for online and offline publications where needed.

Passenger-km per railComputer record field reference <Passkm>.


Definition Passenger-km means the unit of measure representing the transport of one passenger by rail over a distance of one kilometre. Only the distance on the national territory of the reporting country shall be taken into account .

The distance to be taken into consideration should be the distance actually travelled by the passenger on the network. To avoid double counting each country should count only the pkm performed on its territory. If this is not available, then the distance charged or estimated should be used.

Source of definition

Regulation 1192/2003, Article 1-16, Glossary for Transport Statistics (4th edition), A.V-08.

Explanation and examplesIn sending the data, the Member States shall use values in 1000 passenger-kilometres. Eurostat will round the figures to million passenger-kilometres for online and offline publications.

Train movementsComputer record field reference <TrainKM>.





DefinitionTrain-km means the unit of measure representing the movement of a train over one kilometre. The distance used is the distance actually run, if available, otherwise the standard network distance between the origin and destination shall be used. Only the distance on the national territory of the reporting country shall be taken into account.

Source of definitionRegulation 1192/2003, article 1-20

Explanation and examples

A train should be regarded here as a whole set of rail vehicles regardless the number of rail vehicles in a train.

1.3 Remarks on methodology

General remarks concerning all annexes of Regulation 91/2003 are presented below. Specific methodological aspects relating to each annex are presented under the chapter describing their content and their structure.

Declaration of null valuesCompleting the database with missing data and the calculation of the totals (performed for the data already stored in the rail production database, but to be repeated after the IT code change implementation) implies that future data provisions have to be harmonised in order to increase the completeness and consistency of the data in Eurostat's rail production and dissemination databases, while decreasing the workload for the countries. This can be performed by respecting the provisions of the Regulation and by applying the appropriate validation rules.

However, the international freight and passenger transports (Tables A3 and C2 & C4 as well as Annexes F and G) are an exception: it would not make sense to create a matrix of all countries/regions of the world. Thus, for example in Table A3, only those records where values are different from "0" should be completed.

Following the Rail WG meeting in April 2009 (point 7.2 of the Agenda), countries should provide all the positions of the dimensions (totals and zero records) as recommended in the Guidelines. For the countries providing only minimum positions of the dimensions – totals and zero records not provided – Eurostat will apply a separate procedure. Missing totals and zeros will be calculated by Eurostat. Then a complete set of data (containing zero records and totals) will be provided to the country concerned for final validation before dissemination.




The following tables are concerned with zero and totals provisions:

Categories Tables Declaration of null values

Type of transport A1-A6 to A8- B1- C1, C3

Type of goods A2

Category of dangerous goods A4

Type of consignment A5

Type of transport unit A6 to A8

Type of accident H1-H3-H4

Category of person H3-H4

Transit transport must not be included in international transportIn the case of data tables broken down by type of transport (tables A1, A3, A6, A7, A8, B1, B2, F2), the transit transport has not to be included in the international transport. Transit of freight must be provided as a separate type of transport (see table below). Note, for tables C1, C2, C3, C4 and F4 related with passenger transport, transit is not to be provided at all. The type of transport is broken down as follows:




Type of transport Freight Passengers

Total 0 = 1+2+5 0 = 1+2

National 1 1

International – total 2 = 3 + 4 2 = 3 + 4

International - outgoing 3 3

International - incoming 4 4

Transit 5 -

Calculation of EU aggregates at EurostatCurrenty Eurostat disseminates rail transport data at national (all EU countries, EFTA countries – Norway. Liechtenstein and Switzerland (since reference year 2008) and Candidate Countries – Turkey and Croatia). The EU aggregates – the EU-25 and EU-27 – are disseminated in some of the tables (if relevant).

New approach on error marginsThe aim of the error margins1 is to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute growth rates between two consecutive periods (years, quarters) in order to verify with the concerned country the credibility of the values out of margin. Error margins are a very useful tool both for the countries (alerted only in justified cases) and Eurostat (to be able to explain the reasons of such cases to external users - e.g. in the Country Specific Notes).

A previous revision of the error margins led to the definition of new thresholds for quality checks on rail transport statistics. These new thresholds were adapted to each dataset and to the absolute value of the figures checked, replacing the former uniform approach (warning and error thresholds of 100% and 300% respectively): at a certain stage, it appeared that unique thresholds for every table were not appropriate, as the absolute values available in each table, varying according to the dataset considered, were not taken into consideration when applying the thresholds. Moreover, datasets do not have the same units. For these two reasons, it appeared relevant to determine new thresholds for each table, taking into consideration the importance of the values as well as the unit into which figures are expressed.

The number of cases for which the countries' intervention is needed is now reduced to a minimum, as the countries are only notified in case of errors. Errors (and alerts for Annex H only) are provided to the countries for clarifications (either for corrections or for comments) in the error margin check reports.

A first series of thresholds had been defined on the basis of the reference years 2004, 2005 and 2006, and subsequently 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2013, these thresholds have been assessed in order to detect if they were still appropriate for the most recent data or if modifications were needed, especially in view of the latest developments in the field of rail transport and the consequences of the economic crisis. An analysis has been carried out on the basis of the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 growths.

11 Eurostat used to refer to 'safety margins' when asking the countries for clarification, but in order to distinguish between the former and the new approaches, the 'error margin' expression is currently used.




As the changes proposed by Eurostat have been approved3 by the Working Group of November 2013, the following new thresholds will be applied from now on:

AlertDatasets Units [0; 5[ [5; 20[ [20; 70[ [70; MAX]

H1-H2 nbracc 300% 40%

Datasets Units [0; 2[ [2; 10[ [10; 25[ [25; MAX]H3 kil 300% 40% 35%H4 inj 300% 50% 30%

Error

Datasets Units [0; 30[ [30; 300[ [300; 2200[

[2200; MAX]

A1-B1-A2-A3-A4-E1 1000t 500% 75% 30%

A5 1000t 100%A6 1000t 600% 140% 45%

Datasets Units [0; 15[ [15; 90[ [90; 650[ [650; MAX]

A1-B1-A2-A3-A4-E1 mio_tkm 500% 90% 40%

A5 mio_tkm 75%A6 mio_tkm 300% 85% 65%

Datasets Units [0; 5500[ [5500; 25000[

[25000; 90000[

[90000; MAX]

A7 teu 500% 40% 30%A8 teu 350% 30% 20%

Datasets Units [0; 1500[ [1500; 10000[

[10000; 50000[

[50000; MAX]

A7 nbr 650% 300% 40% 35%A8 nbr 700% 300% 40%

Datasets Units [0; 8000[ [8000; 25000[

[25000; 80000[

[80000; MAX]

A9-B2-C5-D2 1000train_km 300% 15% 10%

Datasets Units [0; 3[ [3; 30[ [30; 2000[ [2000; MAX]

C1-C3-D1-C2-C4-E2 1000pass 300% 75% 40%

Datasets Units [0; 500[ [500; 2000[

[2000; 6000[

[6000; MAX]

C1-C3-D1-C2-C4-E2 mio_pkm 300% 10%

3 Error margins are revised over the years taking into account the evolution of the rail transport market.




Approach on passenger data disseminationProvisional passenger transport data (Tables C1 and C2) is used (including the optional PASSKM value if provided)4 for dissemination with a ‘p’ flag (provisional data)5 (even if aggregated with the final data coming from simplified reporting). This means that passenger transport data (number of passengers and passenger-km (if provided) are properly indicated as being provisional. Moreover, for the tables in which data from detailed reporting are aggregated with the simplified reporting data, dissemination takes place only if both datasets are provided (if relevant)6. Annex I declarations are used in order to verify the reporting regime of each country as regards passenger data provision. Following this approach, the dissemination schema (as regards the countries providing both simplified and detailed data on passenger transport) looks as specified in the table below):

Dissemination table(Eurobase table)

First dissemination:8 +1 months 1)

Second dissemination:14 + 1 months 1)

Source tables and disseminated variables

Train movements Passenger train movements

= D2 + C5 –2)

Railway passenger transport by type of transport (national/international — detailed reporting only) (total — simplified and detailed reporting)(in 1000 passengers)

total transport3)= D1+C1with ‘p’ flag

national transport = C14)

with ‘p’ flaginternational transport = C14)

with ‘p’ flag

total transport 3) = D1+C3 (final data5))


(final data5))international transport = C34)

(final data5))

Railway passenger transport by type of transport (national/international — detailed reporting only) (total — simplified and detailed reporting)(in million passenger-kilometres)

total transport3) = D1+C1with ‘p’ flag (if PASSKM

provided in C1), otherwise ‘:’national transport = C14)

with ‘p’ flag (if PASSKM provided in C1), otherwise ‘:’international transport = C14)

with ‘p’ flag (if PASSKM provided in C1), otherwise ‘:’

total transport 3) = D1+C3(final data5))


(final data5))international transport = C34)

(final data5))

International railway passenger transport from the reporting country to the country of disembarkation(in 1000 passengers)

C2with ‘p’ flag

C4(final data5))

International railway passenger transport from the country of embarkation to the reporting country(in 1000 passengers)

C2with ‘p’ flag

C4(final data5))

1) Deadline for data provision and approximate time needed for validation at Eurostat, before disseminating the data.2) Final data coming both from simplified and detailed reporting are provided only once within an 8-month deadline. No need for any major updates.3) Note that total transport may differ from the sum of national and international transport by the value of passenger transport provided in simplified reporting (national and international figures are not available in simplified reporting). The larger the number of railway undertakings under simplified reporting in a country, the bigger the difference between the aggregates. This situation will last until all types of transport (total, national and international) are provided in simplified reporting — long-term approach. Moreover, if the provision of one of the Annexes (C or D) is late, only available data are disseminated.4) National and international figures are not available in simplified reporting.

4 If not provided, it will be published as not available (‘:’) even if PASSKM data coming from detailed reporting are available.5 This rule would not be applied to the countries under simplified reporting only. For them, data coming from Tables D1 and D2 will be used and regarded as final.6 Concerns countries which report both simplified and detailed data on passenger transport.1

2

3




5) Provisional figures coming from Table C1 would be replaced by the final ones as soon as they are provided to Eurostat; ‘p’ flag no longer applicable.

IT changes recently implementedIn order to enhance the processing and dissemination of rail data, Eurostat has implemented various IT changes in the data processing and in the procedure for the exportation of the data to the dissemination tables. The main changes implemented are presented hereafter.

Addition of the EU-28 aggregateThe EU-28 aggregate has been added in all the dissemination tables of the Eurostat Dissemination Database already containing the EU-28 aggregate.

The following rules apply for the calculation of the EU-28 aggregate:

EU-28 is calculated only when all needed data is available. If data needed for the EU-28 aggregate is confidential for at least one country, then the aggregate

is confidential. Even if data from Malta and Cyprus is not available, the aggregate EU-28 has to be calculated, as

no railway network exists in these countries.

Addition and modification of validation rulesSome new validation rules have been implemented in the rail IT environment in order to ensure the reliability of the data. All the current validation rules are available in the “Validation of data” tables for each dataset (see the rules applied by dataset in Chapters 2 to 10) and also in Chapter 12 (12.1.2 Data validation within Eurostat).

Presentation of the TEU figures in Eurostat Dissemination DatabaseAs mentioned in the legal act, TEU transport should only be reported for containers and swap bodies: Eurostat decided thus to display a flag “–“ (not applicable) in the TEU values for which the type of transport unit is Road vehicles (accompanied), Semi-trailers (unaccompanied) and Unknown. For details please refer to detailed description of tables A7 and A8.

1.4 Methodology for compiling rail freight transport statistics

Countries are recommended to use data corresponding to the rail freight waybill as the main reference source to compile rail freight statistics. In case of non-availability, countries should use data sources likely to provide information comparable to the data available from the rail waybill.

Examples of reporting rail freight statisticsRecognition/classification of the type of transport

Example 1: Companies (data providers) know only a part of the whole transport performedIn some cases, companies may not carry goods all along their journey and this can be a problem for data collection, as these companies are not informed on the rest of the journey of the goods.

FROM THROUGH TO




POINT A POINT B POINT C

Only the first part of the transport (from Point A to Point B) is performed by a given company. When data are provided to

the CNA by the company concerned, a part of the transport is missing in the declaration and transit figures are not accurate.

Recommendation:As previously stated, the leading document for good transport on rail should be the “Rail Waybill”. The information from this document is known at Point A and Point C, which can provide data on the full transport from Point A to Point C.The following data can be produced:

Point A: national or international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm) Point C: national or international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

When transit occurred in a third country, the transport or infrastructure company of the country crossed has information in their system allowing to provide data on the transit performed on its territory.Example 2: “Train ferries and transit at the border”If a railway wagon goes on a train ferry at the border of the reporting country and the same railway wagon continues the journey to the destination country of the train ferry, the application of the definition of international traffic (outgoing, incoming and transit) may be different depending on the countries considered.Recommendation:The railway ferry is considered as railway and the “Rail Waybill” covers the total journey:

a) If the wagon was loaded in the reporting country, it is an international transport from this country to its destination abroad (even if the wagon is loaded in a seaport of the country and no or only few tkm are performed on its territory). The ferry-tkm between the reporting country and a country of destination abroad are counted in maritime statistics.The following data must be produced: Reporting country: international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Country of destination abroad: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

b) If the wagon was loaded outside the reporting country and only crosses it, the tonnes & tkm performed in this country must be counted as Transit.The following data must be produced:Country of origin abroad: international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Reporting country: transit (tonnes & tkm)Country of destination abroad: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

Recognition of the true origin/destinationExample 3: Transport between China and Germany via Russia and PolandFor a train from China to Germany through Poland, reporting is made to the German authorities that this train is coming from Russia due to the difference of gauge between




China and Russia. In the case of a direct train (no change of gauge), China would have been reported as the origin of the transport.

FROM THROUGH TO

CHINA RUSSIA POLAND GERMANY

There is a change of gauge between China and Russia.

Recommendation:The real traffic flow is China-Germany and this is the traffic flow which should be reported, but as the sole information accessible in contact with the Russian authorities is the rail waybill between Russia and Germany, the existing information should be taken and the following data must be produced:

Russia: international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Poland: transit (tonnes & tkm)Germany: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

Recognition of transit– Example of best practiceExample 4: “Reporting companies” in Switzerland Many railway undertakings can be involved in international transport of goods by rail. Generally speaking, there is an undertaking having the contract with the sender of the goods and an undertaking executing the transport in its own country (usually these undertakings are actually the same). The contract holding undertaking should be licensed in the country where the transport takes place to execute the transport. However, this local undertaking does not necessarily need to execute the transport itself: transport can also be executed by another undertaking.When setting up cargo statistics, Switzerland pointed out that it should be firstly decided which of the two undertakings should be responsible for delivering data, namely the contract holding or the executing undertaking. Unfortunately both solutions have disadvantages:

- The contract holding undertaking as data supplierThis enterprise has access to the information requested in the consignment note (it can thus easily report the types of goods - Annex A2). However, as the contract holding undertaking does not need to have a licence for rail transport in the reporting country, it can be very difficult to get in contact with the enterprise and to make sure to receive plausible data. Theoretically, any railway undertaking could hold a contract for rail cargo transport in any other country.As the contract holding enterprise has no information on how the transport has been executed, the tkm figures are usually calculated with a commercial perspective. This means that the tkm figures are not based on the actual distance, but on distance tables that are meant to be used for calculating prices of transport. If there are different possible routes, the difference between “commercial tkm” and “actually executed tkm” can be significant.




- The executing undertaking as data supplierThe executing undertaking has always a licence in the country where it executes transport (the number of possible data suppliers is thus limited).There are however several disadvantages. The executing undertaking does not necessarily know the types of goods carried (Annex A2), especially when goods are transported in intermodal transport units: in such case, they can only be attributed to the “unknown products” category. Moreover, as the executing undertaking is only responsible for the section it executes, the knowledge of what is happening before and after the transport it executes is sometimes limited: the origin and final destination of the goods, as well as the type of consignment may not be known in each case.

How the problem is tackled by Switzerland?Switzerland decided to ask railway undertakings licensed in the country about actually executed transport: this allows to ensure that all transport is covered. This also allows to get the actually covered distance (which is, from the Swiss point of view, the most interesting information as figures are also used for calculating external costs of transport). The idea is to accept that transport is sometimes reported in vague goods categories compared to not having a full coverage of tonnes & tkm figures in the statistics reported.Another pragmatic approach may be the use of existing information about “commercial tkm” (as they are necessary for commercial purposes between different parties, they are reliable and often available on electronic media either at the rail-network company of the country concerned or in the railway company hauling the train on the transit route), which already represent a high degree of exactitude for statistical purposes. Countries are highly encouraged to use the most exact counting method possible (as applied in Switzerland). In case of difference with these guidelines for reporting freight statistics, they should be reported as methodological information when providing data.

Additional operations during transportExample 5: Rearrangement of the wagons A train is coming to Denmark from Italy and a rearrangement of the wagons is made in Denmark (the goods remain on the wagon but the train is different).

FROM THROUGH TO

ITALY DENMARK SWEDEN

A rearrangement of the wagons is made in Denmark (the goods remain on the wagon but the

train is different).




Recommendation:For all countries involved, the rail waybill says Italy – Sweden with transit in Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. It is of no importance if the wagons is reorganised in another train on a marshalling yard or drawn by another locomotive.

The following data must be produced:Italy: international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Switzerland: transit (tonnes & tkm)Germany: transit (tonnes & tkm)Denmark: transit (tonnes & tkm)Sweden: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

TranshipmentExample 6: Goods carried from China to Germany via PolandFor goods transported via Poland with transhipment at the border, there are problems to report goods transport: Poland could either be considered as a transit country or could report international transport from China and international transport to Germany.

FROM THROUGH TO

CHINA POLAND GERMANY

There is a change of gauge when goods are entering Poland. A second transhipment may also take

place when goods are entering Germany.

Recommendation:All countries involved in this transport use the same rail waybill, so the information of this document should be taken into account. If other data sources are used, the compatibility of the system used with the data of the “rail waybill” should be ensured.The “change of gauge” with changing the boogies of the wagon should not be considered as transhipment.These goods are on transit through Poland, because there was no change of the mode of transport (see definition of transit) on Polish territory. The following data must be produced:

Poland: transit (tonnes & tkm)Germany: International inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

Example 7: Transhipment at the border taking place in the foreign countryWhen transhipment is performed at the border of Poland but on the territory of the Czech Republic, goods are considered as being transshipped in Poland (and the transport is reported as national transport by Poland while it is actually performed in the Czech Republic).




FROM TO

POLAND CZECH REPUBLIC

Transhipment is performed in the Czech Republic but goods are reported

as national transport in Poland.

Recommendation:The actual place of transhipment is statistically not important: only the information on the rail waybill should be taken into consideration. This example should be considered as international transport between Poland and the Czech Republic.The following datasets should be produced:

Poland: International outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Czech Republic: International inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

Example 8: “Train ferries and transit at the border” Clarifications were requested from the countries on the definition of international traffic (outgoing, incoming and transit) if goods are unloaded from the railway wagons of the reporting country and loaded on the railway wagons of the unloading country at the border between the reporting country/the unloading country. Recommendation:

a) If there is only one rail waybill for the total journey, it should be counted international transport. The following data must be produced:Reporting loading country: international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Reporting unloading country: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

b) if there are 2 rail waybills (one for unloading and one for loading in the transfer seaport) two transports must be counted independently. This counting method may not be satisfactory, but cannot be avoided in the system. The following data must be produced:Reporting loading country: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Reporting loading country: national outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

Modification of the trainExample 9: “Changes of locomotive”Identifying the country of loading (or unloading) by taking into consideration the last transhipment of the goods is a good approach as long as transhipment includes changes of locomotive even if wagons are not modified. Indeed, when the locomotive is changed, the rail operator may change as well. As countries collect data on transit for their own rail operators, the undertakings do not know where goods were transshipped but rather where they were in charge of them (it may be the last transhipment but it is not compulsory).




The following example highlights this situation.Goods are loaded by an undertaking U1 in Slovenia. In the case of a transport to Spain, the goods will go through Italy and France. Goods are leaving Slovenia with undertaking U1 and are transshipped (including a change in the wagons) in Slovenia before entering Italy. At this stage goods are carried by another undertaking U2 operating in Italy: this operator carries goods until Ventimiglia, where a change of undertaking (from U2 to U3) takes place, including a change of locomotive (no transhipment of the goods, neither change in the wagons). Goods are then leaving Italy with undertaking U3 operating in France and undertaking U4 carries the goods from Irun onwards. Goods are finally unloaded in Madrid.

FROM THROUGH THROUGH TO

SLOVENIA ITALY FRANCE SPAIN

U1 U2 U3 U4

Goods transshippe

d before entering

Italy

Goods carried until Ventimiglia, where a change of undertaking takes place

(including a change of locomotive)

Goods carried until Irun (new change of

undertaking with change of

locomotive)

Goods carried

from Irun to Madrid

Taking into consideration as definition for the starting and ending points of a transport of goods the transhipment country with change in the wagons (not considering changes of locomotive), the initial loading country and the final destination country, the reporting should be made as follows:

1) Slovenia should report tkm performed in Slovenia by U1 as national transport and those performed by E2 as international transport to Spain

2) Italy should report tkm performed in Italy by U2 and U3 as transit between Slovenia and France

3) France should report tkm performed in France by U3 as transit between Slovenia and Spain

4) Spain should report tkm performed in Spain by U3 and U4 as incoming goods from Slovenia

On the opposite, taking into consideration as definition for the starting and ending points of a transport of goods the transhipment country with change in the wagons or a change of locomotive, the initial loading country and the final destination country, the reporting should be made as follows:

1) Slovenia should report tkm performed in Slovenia by U1 as national transport and those performed by E2 as international transport to Italy;

2) Italy should report tkm performed in Italy by U2 as incoming from Slovenia and tkm performed in Italy by U3 as outgoing transport to Spain

3) France should report tkm performed in France by U3 as transit between Italy and Spain

4) Spain should report tkm performed in Spain by U3 as incoming from Italy and tkm performed in Spain by U4 as national transport

The main problem of the first scenario is that national companies providing the information to the reporting countries may not know the actual loading place, unloading place and




transhipment place (including a change in the wagons) of the goods.However, such companies are able to identify the places where they started the transport of the goods, including the places where there has been a change of locomotive.Recommendation:A change of locomotive never can be considered as a break in the transport.A change of rail operator also cannot be considered as transhipment.Both events are usual in railway transport and very frequent in international transport and have no impact on the data of the rail waybill (e.g. Rail Waybill says Slovenia Spain).On this basis, Slovenia and Spain report for the type of goods and the origin and destination of the transport.Following the territoriality principles mentioned in the Regulation, each country involved in this transport reports the tonnes & tkm performed on its own territory.The following data must be produced:

Slovenia: international outbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)Italy: transit (tonnes & tkm)France: transit (tonnes & tkm)Spain: international inbound (goods, tonnes & tkm)

Additional methodological informationThe following recommendations are valid for all “Type of transport” of goods (national, international and transit)

The purpose of railway statistics on goods transport is to cover transport from its origin to its destination. The first aim is to follow the complete route of the goods transported as described in the transport documents; the “Rail Waybill” is the main source of information for rail transport statistics. This implies that all data collected, even from other sources, must correspond – as far as possible - with the content of the “Rail Waybill”. To avoid misinterpretations which can induce mistakes in data production, some clarifications are listed hereafter: they are valid for national transport and for international transport as well as for transit through a third country.The following operations during a railway transport chain have no influence on the origin and destination of the transport mentioned in the “Rail Waybill” and these are thus not to be considered in the data production.

a) Change of locomotive : the change of locomotive is common use in railway transport. It may be necessary for organisation or because of changing current at the border.

b) Change of enterprise : the change of enterprise is the traditional way of work in international transport where the traction of a train changes at the border in the same time as the active enterprise.

c) Reorganisation of train : the reorganisation of a train in a marshalling yard is a normal operation in rail transport.

d) Change of boogies in the course of change gauge : the change of a boogie of a wagon because of a change of gauge on the transport is a technical obligation to continue the transport.




e) Reloading of a container from one wagon to another : in the course of changing gauge the reloading of containers (even with short storage of the container without breaking the custom seals) is a new and more economic way to replace the technical change of boogies.

f) Use of a train ferryboat : the boarding of a wagon on a ferryboat in a port, even when the port is the border of a country, does not interrupt the total rail transport chain.

These rules applied in the data collection would avoid all the misinterpretations encountered in the examples mentioned in the previous section.

Definition of transhipmentTranshipment (the operations mentioned in the previous paragraph “Additional methodological information” cannot be considered as transhipment)

The real transhipment in rail transport involves the unloading of the goods from its originating wagon and the reloading of the goods in another wagon to continue the transport of the goods to their destination.

This kind of action is avoided as much as possible because of the supplementary workload:a) cost intensive manipulation of goodsb) the custom seals must be brokenc) transport papers must be issued againd) insurance must be renewede) risk of theft is enhanced, etc.



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 2: Description of the Annex A

Chapter 2: Description of the Annex A

Chapter 2: Description of the Annex A




2.0 Overview of the Annex A

Coverage of rail transport statistics

The Annex A of the Regulation 91/2003 covers detailed statistics on annual goods transport. Data are broken-down into 9 tables:

Table A1: goods transported, by type of transport;Table A2: goods transported, by type of goods; Table A3: goods transported (for international and transit traffic) by country of loading and country of

unloadingTable A4: goods transported, by category of dangerous goods; Table A5: goods transported, by type of consignment (optional);Table A6: goods transported in intermodal transport units, by type of transport and by type of transport unit;Table A7: number of loaded intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport

unitTable A8: number of empty intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport

unitTable A9: goods train movements.

Figures have to be provided in one dataset (i.e. in one file) respecting the structure and rules described below.

Dataset for Annex A: Annual statistics on goods transport – detailed reportingField

number Variable Description Coding Table

1 RCount Reporting country ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom A1 to A9

2 DsetID Table identification A1 to A9 A1 to A93 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions A1 to A94 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) A1 to A95 TransID Type of transport [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] A1, A3 A6, A7, A8

6 Goods Type of goods See annex J of the Regulation, see page 38 (goods (type of)) A2

7 DGoods Type of dangerous goods See annex K of the Regulation A4

8 LDG Country of loading

ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United-Kingdom

orcode ‘XX’ for unknown country

A3

9 UNL Country of unloading

ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

orcode ‘XX’ for unknown country

A3

10 Consgmt Type of consignment [1, 2, 3, 9] A5 (optional)11 TTU Type of transport unit [1, 2, 3, 9] A6, A7, A812 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer A1 to A613 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer A1 to A614 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit Numeric integer A7, A815 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU Numeric integer A7, A8 (if TTU=1)16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1 000 km Numeric integer A9

17 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1: confidential0: not confidential A1 to A9

18 FlagD Flag of authorisation for the dissemination of confidential data

1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised A1 to A9

Frequency – every year




Examples of recordsBE;A1;2003;A0;5;;;;;;; 1243039; 204660;;;;0;0BE;A2;2004;A0;;5;;;;;; 58822; 12511;;;;0;0BE;A3;2003;A0;5;;;NL;FR;;;100000;200500;;;;0;0BE;A4;2003;A0;;;7;;;;;5809;900;;;;0;0DE;A5;2004;A0;;;;;;2;; 94089400; 34030475;;;;0;0BE;A6;2007;A0;4;;;;;;2; 164388; 20639;;;;0;0BE;A7;2003;A0;5;;;;;;9;;;304;;;0;0BE;A8;2003;A0;4;;;;;;2;;;1560000;;;0;0BE;A9;2004;A0;;;;;;;;;;;;17263;0;0

Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Weight (of goods) (Tonnes) p. 19Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20 Goods (type of) p. 47 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18

Type of transportComputer record field references <TransID >.


DefinitionRail transport between two places located in the reporting country and in another country.

Classification and Codes to be used According to the Regulation 91/2003, this variable can be equal to:

Code Label0 Total 1 National2 International – total3 International – outgoing4 International – incoming5 Transit

National transportComputer record field references <TransID > = 1.





Alternative terminologyMay be referred to as 'domestic' transport

DefinitionNational transport means rail transport between two places (a place of loading/embarkation and a place of unloading/disembarkation) located in the reporting country. It may involve transit through a second country.

Source of definition and explanationRegulation 1192/2003, article 1 -11

International transport - totalComputer record field references <TransID > = 2.


DefinitionInternational transport means rail transport between a place (of loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarkation) in the reporting country and a place (of loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarkation) in another country.

Source of definitionRegulation 1192/2003, article 1 -12

ExplanationMember States should pay attention to traffic recorded at stations located at borders, especially whether any transhipment operation took place and whether to classify this transport as national or international transport. The real geographic location of a border station should be used as first criteria for determining the loading or unloading country, even if the station might be run by an operator of another country.

International transport - Outgoing Computer record field references <TransID > = 3.


DefinitionInternational transport-outgoing means rail transport between a place of loading/embarkation located in the reporting country and a place of unloading/disembarkation in another country.

Source of definition and explanationRegulation 1192/2003, article 1 -12




Explanation

'Place of loading/embarkation’ (of the goods or passengers railway transport vehicle): the place of loading is the place in which goods (passengers) are loaded (embarked) on the railway transport vehicle.

'Place of unloading/disembarkation’ (of the goods or passengers railway transport): - the place of unloading is the place in which goods (passengers) are unloaded (disembarked) from the railway transport vehicle.

International transport - Incoming Computer record field references <TransID > = 4.

First reference in Regulation

Annex A

Definition

International transport-incoming means rail transport between a place of unloading/disembarkation located in the reporting country and a place of loading/embarkation in another country.


Regulation 1192/2003, article 1 -12

Explanation

'Place of loading/embarkation’ (of the goods or passengers railway transport vehicle): the place of loading is the place in which goods (passengers) are loaded (embarked) on the railway transport vehicle.

'Place of unloading/disembarkation’ (of the goods or passengers railway transport): - the place of unloading is the place in which goods (passengers) are unloaded (disembarked) from the railway transport vehicle.

Note: international transport = international incoming + international outgoing, both in terms of tonnes, passengers, tonne-km and pass-km.

Transit transportComputer record field references <TransID > = 5.

First reference in Regulation

Annex A

Definition

Transit means rail transport through the reporting country between two places (a place of loading/embarkation and a place of unloading/disembarkation) outside the reporting country. Transport operations involving loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarkation of goods/passengers at the border of the reporting country from/onto another mode of transport are not considered as transit. A transit country is therefore a country other than the country of loading or unloading. An example is a transport of goods loaded in Germany and unloaded in Spain that involves a transit through France. Consequently,




France is the transit country which would declare the transit of goods loaded in Germany and unloaded in Spain.


Regulation 1192/2003, article 1-13.

Explanation and examples

The following table presents some records from dataset A3 (“Goods transported (for international and transit traffic) by country of loading and unloading”) for which discrepancies were observed in the declarations of a given reporting country.

DSETIDRCOUNT

* PERIOD TRANSID LDG UNL YEAR* TONNES TKMA3 XX A00 5 BR BR YYYY 23 3A3 XX A00 5 CN CN YYYY 3268 487A3 XX A00 5 JP JP YYYY 50 8A3 XX A00 5 CN JP YYYY 24 0A3 XX A00 5 US TT YYYY 22 3A3 XX A00 5 US AZ YYYY 120 17A3 XX A00 5 CN DE YYYY 25 17

* The codes ‘XX’ and 'YYYY' are used for confidentiality reasons; the 'XX' code means a European country subject to rail transport data provisions according to the Regulation 91/2003; 'YYYY' stands for a given year; AZ – Azerbaijan; BR – Brazil; CN – China; JP – Japan; US – USA; TT – Trinidad and Tobago

The table indicates that the reporting country (XX) reported transit:

for transport taking place to/from a unique country located outside Europe (first three records);

for transport taking place between two different countries located outside Europe on the same continent (Asia, America) – two records;

for transport taking place between two different countries located outside Europe, both located on different continents – one record;

for transport taking place between two different countries, of which one is located outside Europe – last record.

According to the definition of transit transport, rail transport with such partner countries are not likely to take place, especially for the first six records shown in the above table. The main reasons of such reporting could be as follows:

wrong interpretation of the definition of transit (e.g. inclusion of goods transhipped at sea ports from rail wagons to a ship);

typing errors (e.g. AU – Australia instead of AT – Austria, BR – Brazil instead of BE – Belgium) (which may also concern declarations of international transport).

For the last record (transit – via country YY - of goods loaded in China and unloaded in Germany) three possible ways of transport are possible:

the most probable case: the goods were loaded in China on a ship and transported to country YY, then unloaded from the ship and loaded on rail wagons and then transported to Germany - this transport should not be reported as railway transit, but as international transport (from country YY to Germany);




possible case: the goods were loaded on the rail wagons in China and then reached Germany (passing through country YY) using the Trans-Siberian Railway - this transport may be declared as transit via country YY;

the least possible case: the goods were loaded on the rail wagons in China and the wagons were loaded on a ro-ro vessel, arrived at a sea port located in country YY and then continued their journey to Germany – this transport may be declared as transit but it is very unlikely because of technical obstacles (differences in the gauges) and cost involved (ro-ro vessels do not operate on the ocean routes).

Eurostat has created a list of the countries with which rail transit is unlikely to take place (see Annex 4) and introduced validation rules in the tables concerned.

2.1 Description of table A1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table A1

Table A1 covers statistics on goods transported at national, international and transit level.

Structure of table A1 – Goods transported by type of transport

Field number Variable Description Coding

1* RCount Reporting country = ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

2* DsetID Table identification = A1 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 DGoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = Blank field12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field 15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field

17 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1: confidential0: not confidential


1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised

* indicates key fields.

The combination of the values of the key fields for a record must constitute a unique key value within the file.

Example of record BE;A1;2003;A0;5;;;;;;;1243039;204660;;;;0;0

Deadline for the transmission of data – 5 months after the end of the reference period




Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18




Validation of data – Table A1

N° Description of the test Type of test Type of error* CheckNote field Error Messages***

1RCount must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK »)

Existence of a field and check of value E

2 DsetID must be present and equal to A1 Existence of a field and check of value E

3 Year must be present and belong to the interval [2003, current year] Existence of a field and check of value E

4 Period must be present and equal to A0 Existence of a field and check of value E

5 TransID must be present and and belong to the interval [0, 1, 2, 3, 4,5] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E

7 Tkm must be present Existence of a field E

FlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

FlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

8 If Tonnes = 0 and Tkm <> 0 then Tkm is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'A1-8-CW:Tkm cannot have a value if Tonnes = 0 so Tkm is set to 0 as

well;'

9 If Tonnes <> 0 and Tonnes >= 100 and Tkm = 0) then Tkm is set to NULL Internal consistency checks W 'A1-9-CW:If there is a value for Tonnes so Tkm cannot be 0 but has to

be considered unavailable;'

10

In table A1, for tonnes and tkm, the declared value of total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of values declared in tonnes and tkm for outward international transport (‘3’) and inward international transport (‘4’)

Internal consistency checks W See below rule 20.

11

In Table A1, for tonnes and tkm, the declared value of total transport (‘0’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in tonnes and tkm for national (1), outward international transport (‘3’), inward international transport (‘4’) and transit (‘5’)


12The sums of the data declared in tonnes and tkm in tables A1 and A2 (and A5 if available) should be equal

External consistency checks E

'A1-12-CE:No record in A2;''A1-12-CE:Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-12-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val];''A1-12-CE:Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-12-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val];''A1-12-CE:No record in A5;''A1-12-CE:Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-12-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val];''A1-12-CE:Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-12-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val];'




13The sum of values declared in Table A1 in tonnes and tkm should be equal to the value declared in Annex I for detailed reporting

External consistency checks W

'A1-13-CW:No record in I1;''A1-13-CW:Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-13-CW:Tonnes A1= [TonnesA1_val] Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val];''A1-13-CW:Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-13-CW:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val];'

14

The value declared in Table A1 in tonnes and tkm should be close to the sum of the 4 quarterly values declared in table E1 of the same year. If variation is between 5% and 20 % a warning is set. If variation is greater than 20%, records are set in error.

External consistency checks WE

'A1-14-CW:No record in E1;''A1-14-C[EW] :Tonnes E1=[TonnesE1_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-14-C[EW] :Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes E1=[TonnesE1_val];''A1-14-C[EW] :Tkm E1=[TkmE1_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-14-C[EW] :Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] TkmE1=[TkmE1_val];'

15

The value declared in Table A1 in tonnes and tkm for ‘international transport – outward’ should be equal to the sum of the data declared in tonnes and tkm for LDG=RCOUNT in table A3


'A1-15-CW:No record in A3;''A1-15-CE:Tonnes A3= [TonnesA3_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-15-CE:Tonnes A1= [TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val];''A1-15-CE:Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-15-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val];'

16

The value declared in Table A1 in tonnes and tkm for ‘international transport – inward’ should be equal to the sum of the data declared in tonnes and tkm for UNL=RCOUNT in table A3


'A1-16-CW:No record in A3;''A1-16-CE:Tonnes A3= [TonnesA3_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-16-CE:Tonnes A1= [TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val];''A1-16-CE:Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-16-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val];'

17

The value declared in Table A1 in tonnes and tkm for ‘transit transport’ should be equal to the sum of the data declared in tonnes and tkm for ‘LDG’ ≠ ‘RCOUNT’ and ‘UNL’ ≠ ‘RCOUNT’ in table A3


'A1-17-CW:No record in A3;''A1-17-CE:Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''A1-17-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val];''A1-17-CE:Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A1-17-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val];'

20 Rule 20 includes all validation tests done in rules 10 and 11. Internal consistency checks

E

W

'A1-20-CE: clarification resquested, 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 is missing;''A1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 0 <> 1+2+5;''A1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5;''A1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5 and 2 = 3 + 4;''A1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3+ 4;''A1-20-CW:No record;''A1-20-CW:2 recalculated = 3 + 4;'

22 If one transid is missing then the missing transid is inserted; Internal consistency checks E

W 'A1-22-CW:No record;'

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E

'A1-EM_ :No record;''A1-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] / Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation=[GR_val] %;''A1-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation=[GR_val] %;'

*E: Error – W: Warning** provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided




Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex A1 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).



Table A2 covers statistics on goods transported by type of goods

Structure of table A2 – Goods transported by type of goodsField

number Variable Description Coding

1* Rcount Reporting country = ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

2* DsetID Table identification = A2 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 TransID Type of transport = Blank field 6* Goods Type of goods ** = NSTR [01, ……, 24]** NST 2007 [01, ……, 20]**7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport Unit = Blank field12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field 15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field




* indicates key fields. ** NSTR until 2007 reference year; NST 2007 as from 2008 reference year


Example of record BE;A2;2004;A0;;5;;;;;;58822;1511;;;;0;0

Deadline for the transmission of data – 5 months after the end of the reference period.

Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18




Goods (type of)Computer record field reference <Goods>.


DefinitionThe classification of goods carried by rail shall be according to the NST 2007 nomenclature (as from 2008 reference year).

Classification and Codes to be usedThe Coordinating Committee for Statistics on Transport (CCST) has decided in December 2007 to move from NST/R classification of goods (foreseen by the Regulation 91/2003) to NST 2000 (renamed NST 2007 during the UNECE WP.6 annual meeting in early June 2007) in 2008 as reference year.

The Regulation required the coding of the type of goods carried to the 24 groups of goods. The description of goods, NST/R chapters, NST/R groups and the 24 groups of goods are given in Annex J of Regulation 91/2003 (see Annex 1 of the Guidelines). The codes to be used are the digits of the 24 groups (without a leading zero for groups 1 to 9). A description of the 24 groups is available on CIRCABC. This classification was to be used for the dataset until 2007 reference year.

Since the 2008 reference year, NSTR was replaced by NST 2007. It contains 20 divisions of goods. The description of goods and NST 2007 divisions are given in Regulation 1304/2007 (see Annex 1 of the Guidelines). The codes to be used are the digits of the 20 divisions (with a leading zero for groups 1 to 9). A description of the 20 divisions (in all languages) as well as the conversion tool is available on CIRCABC.

NST 2007DivisionDescription01 Products of agriculture, hunting, and forestry; fish and other fishing products02 Coal and lignite; crude petroleum and natural gas03 Metal ores and other mining and quarrying products; peat; uranium and thorium04 Food products, beverages and tobacco05 Textiles and textile products; leather and leather products06 Wood and products of wood and cork (except furniture); articles of straw and plaiting materials;

pulp, paper and paper products; printed matter and recorded media07 Coke and refined petroleum products08 Chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibres; rubber and plastic products;nuclear fuel09 Other non-metallic mineral products10 Basic metals; fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment11 Machinery and equipment n.e.c.; office machinery and computers; electrical machinery and

apparatus n.e.c.; radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus; medical, precision and optical instruments; watches and clocks

12 Transport equipment13 Furniture; other manufactured goods n.e.c.14 Secondary raw materials; municipal wastes and other wastes15 Mail, parcels16 Equipment and material utilised in the transport of goods17 Goods moved in the course of household and office removals; baggage transported separately

from passengers; motor vehicles being moved for repair; other non-market goods n.e.c.18 Grouped goods: a mixture of types of goods which are transported together19 Unidentifiable goods: goods which for any reason cannot be identified and therefore cannot be

assigned to groups 01–16.20 Other goods n.e.c.



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N° Description of the test Type of testType

of error*

CheckNote field Error Messages***

1 Rcount must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK »)


2 DsetID must be present and equal to A2 Existence of a field and check of value E3 Year must be present and belong to the

interval [2003, current year]Existence of a field and check of value E

4 Period must be present and equal to A0 Existence of a field and check of value E5 Goods must be present and each group must

be present once. Values must belong to the interval [01, ……, 24] for NSTR and to the interval [01, ……, 20] for NST2007**


6 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E7 Tkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E8 If Tonnes = 0 and Tkm <> 0 then Tkm

is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'A2-8-CW:Tkm cannot have a value if Tonnes = 0 so Tkm is set to 0 as well ;'


be considered unavailable ;'10 The sums of the data declared in tonnes and

tkm in tables A1 and A2 (and A5 if available) should be equal

External consistency checks E 'A2-10-CE:No record in A1;''A2-10-CE:Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val]''A2-10-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val]''A2-10-CE:Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A2-10-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val];''A2-10-CE:No record in A5;''A2-10-CE:Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val] Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val]''A2-10-CE:Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val] Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val]''A2-10-CE:Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val] Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val];''A2-10-CE:Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val] Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val];'




'A2-EM- :No record;''A2-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation=[GR_val] %;''A2-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation=[GR_val] %;'

*E: Error – W: Warning**provision of all the Goods records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** value names in brackets is replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.




Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex A2 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1). Note that as GOODS classification has been modified from 2008, no error margin is computed for that year in this table as no corresponding data should be available to perform.



Table A3 covers statistics on goods transported (for international and transit traffic) by country of loading and unloading

Structure of table A3 – Goods transported (for international and transit traffic) by country of loading and unloading



2* DsetID Table identification = A33* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [3, 4, 5] 6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field

8* LDG Country of loading

= ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

orcode “XX” for unknown country

9* UNL Country of unloading


orcode “XX” for unknown country

10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = Blank field12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field 15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field






Example of record BE;A3;2003;A0;5;;;NL;FR;;;100000;200500;;;;0;0






Country of loadingComputer record field reference <LDG>.


DefinitionPlace7 of loading - the place taken into account is the place in which the goods are loaded on a railway vehicle to be transported by it.

Unlike in road and inland waterway transport, transhipments from one railway vehicle directly to another and change of tractive vehicle are not regarded as unloading/loading. However, if the goods are unloaded from a railway vehicle, loaded on another mode of transport and, again loaded on another railway vehicle, this is considered as unloading from the first railway vehicle followed by loading on the second railway vehicle.

Source of definitionGlossary for Transport Statistics, (4th edition),Section A.V-31

Classification and Codes to be usedThe 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes of these countries are used except “EL” for Greece, and "UK" for United Kingdom. These are given in the Annex 3 of these Guidelines, and are also available on CIRCABC and on Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).

CS (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) is valid from YEAR 2004 up to YEAR 2006. As no country code change is implemented in the middle of a year, the new coding RS (SERBIA) and ME (MONTENEGRO) should be used in data validations for the 2007 reference year. The correct coding of these country code changes is checked in the 1st level validation with GENEDI.

Country of unloadingComputer record field reference <UNL>.


7 'place'='country' for the purpose of this Annex.




DefinitionPlace8 of unloading - the place taken into account is the place in which the goods are unloaded from a railway vehicle aft er being transported by it.

Unlike in road and inland waterway transport, transhipments from one railway vehicle directly to another and change of tractive vehicle are not regarded as unloading/loading. However, if the goods are unloaded from a railway vehicle, loaded on another mode of transport and, again loaded on another railway vehicle, this is considered as unloading from the fi rst railway vehicle followed by loading on the second railway vehicle.

Source of definitionGlossary for Transport Statistics (4th edition), Section A.V-32

Classification and Codes to be usedThe 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes of these countries are used except “EL” for Greece and "UK" for United Kingdom. These are given in the Annex 3 of these Guidelines, and are also available on CIRCABC and on Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).








of error*


1Rcount must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK »)





5 TransID must be present and and belong to the interval [3, 4, 5] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6LDG must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK » and for unknown countries “XX”))


7UNL must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK » and for unknown countries “XX”))


7a Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E8 If Tonnes = 0 and Tkm <> 0 then Tkm

is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'A3-8-CW:Tkm cannot have a value if Tonnes = 0 so Tkm is set to 0 as well;'


be considered unavailable ;'10 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E11 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

12In table A3, no national transport for tonnes and tkm (‘LDG’ ‘RCOUNT’ and ‘UNL’ ‘RCOUNT’)

Internal consistency checks E 'A3-12-CE:LDG=RCOUNT and UNL=RCOUNT;'

13In table A3, each ‘LDG/UNL’ combination, for tonnes and tkm, should appear once only, except if ‘LDG or UNL’ is XX

Internal consistency checks E

14 In Table A3, if 'TransID'='3' then 'UNL' ('LDG'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E 'A3-14-CE:UNL <>(LDG=RCOUNT);'

15 In Table A3, if 'TransID'='4' then 'LDG' ('UNL'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E 'A3-15-CE:LDG <>(UNL=RCOUNT);'

16

In table A3, the sum of data declared in tonnes and tkm for LDG=RCOUNT should be equal to the value declared in table A1 in tonnes and tkm for ‘international transport – outgoing’


'A3-16-CW:No record in A1 (transid 3);''A3-16-CE:Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val]''A3-16-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val]''A3-16-CE:Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A3-16-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val];'

17

In table A3, the sum of data declared in tonnes and tkm for UNL=RCOUNT should be equal to the value declared in table A1 in tonnes and tkm for ‘international transport – incoming’


'A3-17-CW:No record in A1 (transid 4);''A3-17-CE:Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val]''A3-17-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val]''A3-17-CE:Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A3-17-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val];'




18

In table A3, the sum of data declared in tonnes and tkm for LDGRCOUNT and UNL’ ‘RCOUNT’ should be equal to the value declared in table A1 in tonnes and tkm for ‘transit transport’


'A3-18-CE:No record in A1 (transid 5);''A3-18-CE:Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val]''A3-18-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A3=[TonnesA3_val]''A3-18-CE:Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A3-18-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A3=[TkmA3_val];'

19

CL_COUNTRY_TRANS code CS (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) is valid from YEAR 2004 up to YEAR 2006 (No country code change in the middle of a year). Please use RS (SERBIA) or ME (MONTENEGRO) for data starting from 2007.

Internal consistency checks E 'A3-19-CE:RCOUNT= CS and YEAR is not between 2004 and 2006;'

20

CL_COUNTRY_TRANS codes RS (SERBIA) and ME (MONTENEGRO) are valid starting from YEAR 2007 (No country code change in the middle of a year). Please use CS (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) for data from 2004 to 2006.

Internal consistency checks E 'A3-20-CE:RCOUNT = RS or ME and YEAR < 2007;'

21


Internal consistency checks E 'A3-21-CE:LDG = RS or ME and YEAR < 2007;'

22


Internal consistency checks E 'A3-22-CE:LDG = CS or UNL= CS and YEAR is not between 2004 and 2006;'

23


Internal consistency checks E 'A3-23-CE:UNL = RS or RE and YEAR < 2007;'

24

In Table A3 the loading country can neither be equal to the reporting country nor to the unloading country but the unloading country has to be equal to the reporting country for International incoming traffic.

Internal consistency checks E 'A3-24-CE:TRANSID <> 4 or UNL = RCOUNT;'

25

In Table A3 the reporting country can neither be equal to the loading country nor to the unloading country for International transit traffic.

Internal consistency checks E 'A3-25-CE:TRANSID <> 5 or UNL <> RCOUNT <> LDG;'

26

In Table A3 the reporting country can neither be equal to the loading country nor to the unloading country for International transit traffic.

Internal consistency checks E 'A3-26-CE:TRANSID <> 3 or LDG = RCOUNT;'

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E 'A3-EM- :No record;'




'A3-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] / Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation=[GR_val] %;''A3-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation=[GR_val] %;'

*E: Error – W: Warning**provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.


Tests on mirror statisticsThe Eurostat Production System will include tests on mirror statistics, i.e. will compare the data in Table A3 provided by the various supplier countries. The aim will be to ensure that the inward international transport figures declared by country X from country Y are equal to the outward international transport figures declared by country Y to country X.

The errors detected will be of the “warning” type, serving mainly to show up methodological problems in the data collection process.






Table A4 covers statistics on goods transported by category of dangerous goods

Structure of table A4 – Goods transported by country of dangerous goods



2* DsetID Table identification = A43* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 TransID Type of transport = Blank field6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7* Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = [1, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7, 8, 9]8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = Blank field12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field 15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field






Example of record BE;A4;2004;A0;;;6.2;;;;;456;89;;;;0;0BE;A4;2004;A0;;;7;;;;;5809;900;;;;0;0






Dangerous GoodsComputer record field reference <Dgoods>.


DefinitionThe classification of goods as dangerous is defined in the regulations concerning the international carriage of dangerous goods by rail, usually known as the RID, as adopted under Council Directive 96/49/EC of 23 July 1996 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail and subsequent amendments (OJ L 235, 17.9.1996, p. 25. of Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2001/6/EC (OJ L 30, 1.2.2001, p. 42).

Source of definitionThe classification of the type of dangerous goods as defined in Directive 96/49/EC

Classification and Codes to be usedThe classification to be used is given in Annex K of Regulation 91/2003. This is reproduced below together with the codes to be used. The full stop (.) should be used as a separator where appropriate (see: Examples of the records).

Important note:Although there is a difference with the classification used in the Regulation, the classification that should be used for data provision is the following.

Code

Label

1 Explosives2 Gases, compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure3 Flammable liquids4.1 Flammable solids4.2 Substances liable to spontaneous combustion4.3 Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases5.1 Oxidising substances5.2 Organic peroxides6.1 Toxic substances6.2 Substances liable to cause infections7 Radioactive material8 Corrosives9 Miscellaneous dangerous substances






of error*







5Dgoods must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7, 8, 9]**


6 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E7 Tkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E8 If Tonnes = 0 and Tkm <> 0 then Tkm

is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'A4-8-CW:Tkm cannot have a value if Tonnes = 0 so Tkm is set to 0 as well;'






'A4-EM- :No record;''A4-EM-EE: TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''A4-EM-EE: TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning**provision of all the Dgoods records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.







Table A5 covers statistics on goods transported by type of consignment (optional)

Structure of table A5 – Goods transported by type of consignment



2* DsetID Table identification = A53* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 TransID Type of transport = Blank field6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10* Consgmt Type of consignment = [1, 2, 3, 9]11 TTU Type of transport unit = Blank field12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field 15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field






Example of record DE;A5;2004;A0;;;;;;2;;94089400;34030475;;;;0;0



Type of consignmentComputer record field reference <Consgmt>.





DefinitionThere are two main types of consignment:

full trainload means any consignment comprising one or more wagonloads transported at the same time by the same sender at the same station and forwarded with no change in train composition to the address of the same consignee at the same destination station;

full wagonload means any consignment of goods for which the exclusive use of a wagon is required, whether the total loading capacity is utilised or not.

Source of definitionRegulation 1192/2003, article 1-21 and article 1-22.

Classification and Codes to be usedAccording to the Regulation 91/2003, this variable can be equal to:

Code

Label

1 Full trainloads2 Full wagonloads3 Other9 Unknown






of error*







5 Consgmt must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2, 3, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E7 Tkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E


well;'9 If Tonnes <> 0 and Tonnes >= 100 and Tkm =

0) then Tkm is set to NULL Internal consistency checks W 'A5-9-CW:If there is a value for Tonnes so Tkm cannot be 0 but has to be considered unavailable;'

10 The sums of the data declared in tonnes and tkm in Tables A1 and A2 (and A5) should be equal.


'A5-10-CE:No record in A1;''A5-10-CE:Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val]''A5-10-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val]''A5-10-CE:Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A5-10-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A5=||[TkmA5_val];''A5-10-CE:No record in A2;''A5-10-CE:Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val] Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val]''A5-10-CE:Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val] Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val]''A5-10-CE:Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val] Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val];''A5-10-CE:Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val] Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val];'




'A5-EM- :No record;''A5-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''A5-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning**provision of all the Consgmt records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.







Table A6 covers statistics on goods transported in intermodal transport units, by type of transport and by type of transport unit

Structure of table A6 – Goods transported in intermodal transport units, by type of transport and by type of transport unit



2* DsetID Table identification = A63* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = [1, 2, 3, 9]12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field 15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field






Example of record BE;A6;2007;A0;4;;;;;;2;164388;20639;;;;0;0






Type of intermodal transport unitComputer record field reference <TTU, NbrITU>.


DefinitionIntermodal transport unit – container, swap body or semi-trailer/goods road motor vehicle suitable for intermodal transport.

Intermodal freight transport – multimodal transport of goods, in one and the same intermodal transport unit by successive modes of transport without handling of the goods themselves when changing modes.

The intermodal transport unit can be a container, swap body or a road or rail vehicle or a vessel. The return movement of empty containers/swap bodies and empty goods road vehicles/trailers are not themselves part of intermodal transport since no goods are being moved. Such movements are associated with intermodal transport and it is desirable that data on empty movements be collected together with data on intermodal transport.

Container – special box to carry freight, strengthened and stackable and allowing horizontal or vertical transfers.A more formal technical defi nition of a container is: “Article of transport equipment which is:

a) Of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated useb) Specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods, by one or more mode of transport, without intermediate reloadingc) Fitted with devices permitting its ready handling, particularly its transfer from one mode of transport to anotherd) So designed as to be easy to fi ll and emptye) Stackable andf) Having an internal volume of 1 m3 or more.”

Swap body – a freight-carrying unit optimised to road vehicle dimensions and fitted with handling devices for transfer between modes, usually road/rail.Such units were not originally designed to be stacked when full or top-lifted. Many units now can be, although not to the same extent as containers. Th e main feature distinguishing them from containers is that they are optimised to road vehicle dimensions. Such unit would need UIC approval to be used on rail. Some swap bodies are equipped with folding legs on which the unit stands when not on the vehicle.




Semi-trailer – goods road vehicle with no front axle designed in such way that part of the vehicle and a substantial part of its loaded weight rests on a road tractor.

Goods road motor vehicle – any single road motor vehicle designed to carry goods (e.g. a lorry), or any coupled combination of road vehicles designed to carry goods, (i.e. lorry with trailer(s), or road tractor with semi-trailer and with or without trailer).

Source of definitionGlossary for Transport Statistics (4th edition),A.II.B-02, G.I-01, A.II.B-03, A.II.B-08, B.II.A-31, B.II.A-25.

Classification and Codes to be usedAccording to the Regulation 91/2003, this variable can be equal to:

Code Label1 Containers and swap bodies2 Semi-trailers (unaccompanied)3 Road vehicles (accompanied)9 Unknown






of error*







5 TransID must be present and belong to the interval [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 TTU must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2, 3, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

7 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E7a Tkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E


well;'



11The sums of the data declared in tonnes and tkm in A6 should be less than data in tables A1, A2 or A5


'A6-11-CE:No record in A1;''A6-11-CE:Tonnes A6=[TonnesA6_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val]''A6-11-CE:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes A6=[TonnesA6_val]''A6-11-CE:Tkm A6=[TkmA6_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''A6-11-CE:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm A6=[TkmA6_val];''A6-11-CE:No record in A2;''A6-11-CE:Tonnes A6=[TonnesA6_val] Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val]''A6-11-CE:Tonnes A2=[TonnesA2_val] Tonnes A6=[TonnesA6_val]''A6-11-CE:Tkm A6=[TkmA6_val] Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val];''A6-11-CE:Tkm A2=[TkmA2_val] Tkm A6=[TkmA6_val];''A6-11-CE:No record in A5;''A6-11-CE:Tonnes A6=[TonnesA6_val] Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val]''A6-11-CE:Tonnes A5=[TonnesA5_val] Tonnes A6=[TonnesA6_val]''A6-11-CE:Tkm A6=[TkmA6_val] Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val];''A6-11-CE:Tkm A5=[TkmA5_val] Tkm A6=[TkmA6_val];'

12

In Table A6, for tonnes and tkm, the declared value of total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in tonnes and tkm for outward international transport (‘3’) and inward international transport (‘4’)


13 In Table A6, for tonnes and tkm, the declared value of total transport (‘0’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in tonnes and





tkm for national (1), outward international transport (‘3’), inward international transport (‘4’) and transit (‘5’)


E

W

'A6-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 is missing;''A6-20-CE: clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 0 <> 1+2+5;''A6-20-CW:No record;''A6-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5;''A6-20-CW:2 recalculated = 3 + 4;''A6-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5 and 2 = 3 + 4;''A6-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3+ 4;'

22 If one transid is missing then the missing transid is inserted Internal consistency checks W 'A6-22-CW:No record;'

23 If one TTU is missing then the missing TTU is inserted Internal consistency checks W 'A6-23-CW:No record;'


'A6-EM- :No record;''A6-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] / Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''A6-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning**provision of all the TransID and TTU records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.


Examples and explanation: The weight of the intermodal transport units should be included in the weight provided.






Table A7 covers statistics on number of loaded intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport unit

Structure of table A7 – Number of loaded intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport unit



2* DsetID Table identification = A73* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = [1, 2, 3, 9]12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm = Blank field 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit Numeric integer

15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU Numeric integer (TTU=1) or Blank field (TTU=2,3 or 9)

16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field






Rule for the reporting of TEU figuresNumber of intermodal transport units must be provided for all types of units [1, 2, 3, 4, 9], while the number of TEU should only be reported for type ‘1’ of intermodal transport unit (TTU=1, namely “containers and swap bodies”) and TEU is not applicable for semi-trailers, road vehicles and unknown intermodal transport units (TTU=2, 3, 9), even if containers are carried. According to the Guidelines's validation rules, TEU figures for the intermodal transport units other than containers and swap bodies were to be provided as blank field and will be disseminated as '–' (not applicable)9.

Values to be provided in table A7 by type of transport unit (TTU) – yes/no

TTU Code TTU Label NbrITU TEUITU1 Containers and swap bodies Yes Yes2 Semi-trailers (Unaccompanied) Yes No (blank field in the record)3 Road vehicles (accompanied) Yes No (blank field in the record)9 Unknown Yes No (blank field in the record)

9 Such methodology was agreed with the countries in 2008 by the written procedure and described in details in the Rail WG document Rail/2009/RAIL 2009 Doc 8.1 (TEU declaration for intermodal transport units (ITU))Guidelines for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Rail transport statistics 66



Example of record DK;A7;2005;A0;3;;;;;;1;;;26472;33558;;0;0 DK;A7;2005;A0;3;;;;;;2;;;2481;;;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38 Type of transport unit p. 62 Number of loaded intermodal transport units p. 62 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18

TEUComputer record field reference < TeuITU>.


DefinitionTEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) means a standard unit based on an ISO container of 20 feet length (6,10 m), used as a statistical measure of traffic flows or capacities. One standard 40' ISO Series 1 container equals 2 TEUs. Swap bodies under 20 feet correspond to 0,75 TEU, between 20 feet and 40 feet to 1,5 TEU and over 40 feet to 2,25 TEU.

Source of definitionRegulation 1192/2003, article 1-23






of error*








6 TTU must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2, 3,9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

7 NbrITU must be present Existence of a field E

8 if TTU=1 then TeuITU must be present else TeuITU='' Existence of a field E

9 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E10 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

11

In Table A7, for NbrITU and TeuITU, the declared value of total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbrITU and TeuITU for outward international transport (‘3’) and inward international transport (‘4’)


12

In Table A7, for NbrITU and TeuITU, the declared value of total transport (‘0’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbrITU and TeuITU for national (1), ), outward international transport (‘3’), inward international transport (‘4’), and transit (‘5’)



E

W

'A7-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 is missing;''A7-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 0 <> 1+2 + 5;''A7-20-CW:No record;''A7-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5;''A7-20-CW: 2 recalculated = 3 + 4;''A7-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5 and 2 = 3 + 4;''A7-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3+ 4;'



EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E 'A7-EM- :No record;''A7-EM-EE:TEUITU - Y=[TEUITU_val] / Y-1=[prec_TEUITU_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'




'A7-EM-EE:NBRITU - Y=[NBRITU_val] Y-1=[prec_NBRITU_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'








Table A8 covers statistics on number of empty intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport unit

Structure of table A8 – Number of empty intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport unit



2* DsetID Table identification = A83* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = [1, 2, 3, 9]12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm = Blank field 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit Numeric integer

15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU Numeric integer (TTU=1) or Blank field (TTU=2,3 or 9)

16 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km = Blank field






Rule for the reporting of TEU figuresThe number of TEU should only be reported for type '1' of intermodal transport unit (TTU=1, namely “containers and swap bodies”) and that TEU is not applicable for semi-trailers, road vehicles and unknown intermodal transport units (TTU=2, 3, 9), even if containers are carried. According to the Guidelines's validation rules, TEU figures for the intermodal transport units other than containers and swap bodies were to be provided and disseminated as '0'.

Values to be provided in table A8 by type of transport unit (TTU) – yes/no

TTU Code TTU Label NbrITU TEUITU1 Containers and swap bodies Yes Yes2 Semi-trailers (Unaccompanied) Yes No (blank field in the record)3 Road vehicles (accompanied) Yes No (blank field in the record)9 Unknown Yes No (blank field in the record)

Example of record BE;A8;2004;A0;4;;;;;;2;;;1560000;;;0;0





Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38 Type of transport unit p. 62 Number of loaded intermodal transport units p. 62 TEU p. 67 Flag of confidentiality p. 17Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18






of error*








6 TTU must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2, 3, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

7 NbrITU must be present Existence of a field E

8 if TTU=1 then TeuITU must be present else TeuITU='' Existence of a field E

9 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E10 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

11

In Table A8, for NbrITU and TeuITU, the declared value of total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbrITU and TeuITU for outward international transport (‘3’) and inward international transport (‘4’)


12

In Table A8, for NbrITU and TeuITU, the declared value of total transport (‘0’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbrITU and TeuITU for national (1), outward international transport (‘3’), inward international transport (‘4’) and transit (‘5’)



E

W

'A8-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 is missing;''A8-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 0 <> 1+2+5;''A8-20-CW:No record;''A8-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5;''A8-20-CW:2 recalculated = 3 + 4;''A8-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5 and 2 = 3 + 4;''A8-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3+ 4;'



EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E 'A8-EM- :No record;''A8-EM-EE:TEUITU - Y=[TEUITU_val] / Y-1=[prec_TEUITU_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'




'A8-EM-EE:NBRITU - Y=[NBRITU_val] Y-1=[prec_NBRITU_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'








Table A9 covers statistics on goods train movements

Structure of table A9 – Goods train movements



2* DsetID Table identification = A93* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 TransID Type of transport = Blank field6 Goods Type of goods = Blank field7 Dgoods Type of dangerous goods = Blank field8 LDG Country of loading = Blank field9 UNL Country of unloading = Blank field10 Consgmt Type of consignment = Blank field11 TTU Type of transport unit = Blank field12 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field 13 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm = Blank field 14 NbrITU Number of intermodal transport unit = Blank field15 TeuITU Intermodal transport units carried in TEU = Blank field 16 TrainKM Goods train movements in 1000 km Numeric integer






Example of record BE;A9;2004;A0;;;;;;;;;;;;17263;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Train movements p. 21Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18






of error*






4 Period must be present and equal to A0 Existence of a field and check of value E8 TrainKM must be present Existence of a field E9 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E10 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E'A9-EM- :No record;''A9-EM-EE:TRAINKM - Y=[trainkm_val] / Y-1=[prec_trainkm_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning** provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided*** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.




Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 3: Description of Annex B

Chapter 3: Description of the Annex B




Chapter 3: Description of the Annex B

3.0 Overview of the Annex B


The Annex B of the Regulation 91/2003 covers simplified statistics on annual goods transport. Data are broken-down into 2 tables:

Table B1: goods transported, by type of transport;Table B2: goods train movements.


Dataset for Annex B: Annual statistics on goods transport – simplified reporting

Field number Variable Description Coding Table

1 Rcount Reporting countryISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

B1 & B2

2 DsetID Table identification B1 & B2 B1 & B23 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions B1 & B24 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) B1 & B25 TransID Type of transport [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] B16 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer B1 7 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer B1 8 TrainKM Goods train movements in 1000 km Numeric integer B2

9 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1 : confidential0 : not confidential B1 & B2


1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised B1 & B2


Examples of recordsAT;B1;2004;A0;2;278438;2977;;0;0 AT;B2;2004;A0;;;;500250;0;0

Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20 Train movements p. 21 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18




3.1 Description of table B1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table B1

Table B1 covers statistics on goods transported at national, international and transit level.

Structure of table B1 – Goods transported by type of transport



2* DsetID Table identification = B13* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 6 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 7 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 8 TrainKM Goods train movements in 1000 km = Blank field






Example of record AT;B1;2004;A0;2;278438;2977;;0;0






Validation of data – Table B1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to B1 Existence of a field and check of value E




6 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E7 Tkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

8 If Tonnes = 0 and Tkm <> 0 then Tkm is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'B1-8-CW:Tkm cannot have a value if Tonnes = 0 so Tkm is set to 0 as

well;'

9 If Tonnes <> 0 and Tonnes >= 100 and Tkm = 0) then Tkm is set to NULL Internal consistency checks W 'B1-9-CW:If there is a value for Tonnes so Tkm cannot be 0 but has to


10

In Table B1, for tonnes and tkm, the declared value of total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in tonnes and tkm for outward international transport (‘3’) and inward international transport (‘4’)


11

In Table B1, for tonnes and tkm, the declared value of total transport (‘0’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in tonnes and tkm for national transport (‘1’), international transport (‘3’+’4’) and transit (5)


12

The sum of values declared in Table B1 in tonnes and Tkm should be equal to the value declared in Annex I for simplified reporting External consistency checks W

'B1-12-CW:No record in I1;''B1-12-CW:Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val] Tonnes B1=[TonnesB1_val];''B1-12-CW:Tonnes B1=[TonnesB1_val] Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val];''B1-12-CW:Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val] Tkm B1=[TkmB1_val];''B1-12-CW:Tkm B1=[TkmB1_val] Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val];'


E

W

'B1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 is missing;''B1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 0 <> 1+2+5;''B1-20-CW:No record;''B1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 and 2 <> 3 + 4 and 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5;''B1-20-CW:2 recalculated = 3 + 4;''B1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 0 <> 1 + 2 + 5 and 2 = 3 + 4;''B1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 2 <> 3+ 4;'





W 'B1-22-CW:No record;'


'B1-EM- :No record;''B1-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] / Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''B1-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning

**provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.

Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex B1 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).




3.2 Description of table B2

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table B2

Table B2 covers statistics on goods train movements.

Structure of table B2 – Goods train movements



2* DsetID Table identification = B23* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 TransID Type of transport = Blank field6 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field7 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm = Blank field8 TrainKM Goods train movement in 1000 km Numeric integer

9 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1 : confidential0 : not confidential





Example of record AT;B2;2004;A0;;;;500250;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Train movements p. 21 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18




Validation of data – Table B2


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to B2 Existence of a field and check of value E



EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E'B2-EM- :No record;''B2-EM-EE:TRAINKM - Y=[trainkm_val] / Y-1=[prec_trainkm_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'


Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex B2 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 4: Description of the Annex C

Chapter 4: Description of the Annex C


Chapter 4: Description of the Annex C

4.0 Overview of the Annex C


The Annex C of the Regulation 91/2003 covers detailed statistics on annual passenger transport. Data are broken-down into 5 tables:

Table C1: passengers transported, by type of transport (provisional data, number of passengers only);Table C2: international passengers transported, by country of embarkation and by country of

disembarkation (provisional data, number of passengers only);Table C3: passengers transported, by type of transport (final consolidated data);Table C4: international passengers transported, by country of embarkation and by country of

disembarkation (final consolidated data, number of passengers only);Table C5: passenger train movements.


Dataset for Annex C: Annual statistics on passengers transport – detailed reporting


1 Rcount Reporting country ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom C1 to C5

2 DsetID Table identification C1 to C5 C1 to C53 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions C1 to C54 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) C1 to C5

5 TransID Type of transport [1 & 2][3 & 4]

C1 & C3C2 & C4

6 LDG Country of embarkation


or“XX” for unknown country

C2 & C4

7 UNL Country of disembarkation


or“XX” for unknown country

C2 & C4

8 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer C1 to C4

9 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer C1 & C3

10 TrainKM Passenger train movements in 1000 train-km Numeric integer C5

11 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1: confidential0: not confidential C1 to C5


1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised C1 to C5

Examples of recordsIT;C1;2004;A0;1;;;17543250;8763890;;0;0IT;C2;2005;A0;4;CH;IT;152588;;;0;0IT;C3;2004;A0;2;;;4003319;2001660;;0;0IT;C4;2004;A0;4;AT;IT;75932580;;;0;0IT;C5;2004;A0;;;;;;260056;0;0




Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38 Country of embarkation p. 90 Country of disembarkation p. 90 Passenger (pass) p. 20 Passenger km (passkm) p. 21 Train movements p. 21 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18

Examples and explanationFigures provided in Tables C1 and C2 are provisional by default. Eurostat intends to disseminate them adding ‘p’ flag10. Once final figures are provided (Tables C3 and C4), provisional data (and ‘p’ flag) would be replaced by the final data.

Eurostat intends to explore the feasibility of revising11 the passenger data collection. After detailed analysis of the data provided within the period 2004-2007 and many repetitive requests from external data users, Eurostat will launch consultations with the countries on possible revisions to the structure and timeliness of passenger transport data. The consultations will cover in general the following aspects of passenger data collection:

Unification of the coverage in the basic variables collected between simplified and detailed reporting, e.g. Type of transport;

Making passenger transport figures (especially on passenger transport performance — pass-km) available earlier than nowadays, either by making pass-km provision (in Table C1) mandatory or by shortening the deadline for final passenger data provision. The analysis of the data provision indicates that many datasets provided as provisional (Table C1 and C2) are also reported as final ones (without any changes); there are also situations where some countries provide final data (Tables C3 and C4) within the deadline for provisional data (eight months) or much earlier than the deadline for final datasets (14 months). This means that final passenger transport data might be available earlier or that provisional data are reliable and may be used for stand-alone dissemination. This approach would also be in line with the recommendations included in the Report to the European Parliament and the Council dating from 200712;

Feasibility of additional data collection as regards passenger transport (e.g. passenger statistics broken down by conventional and high-speed services or passenger transport broken down by distance classes13).

Tables C1 and C2 as of provisional character may contain passenger transport data obtained from ticket sales only. Tables C3 and C4 (with final passenger data) should include (beside ticket sales) also additional sources (e.g. surveys, data exchange with other countries' ticket sales agencies, etc.) which would complement provisional data and would make the final ones more accurate. Countries are advised to inform Eurostat on supportive sources used (if relevant).

10 As proposed during the last Rail WG meeting (Rail/2009/8_3/EN Passenger transport data.doc).11 Changes which would require revision of Annexes C or D to Regulation 91/2003.12 Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on experience acquired in the application of Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2003 on rail transport statistics, approved at the WG meeting of month/year. 13 Requests expressed by the rail data users in the rolling review survey — Rail-2009-3-EN-RR_user survey.doc.




4.1 Description of table C1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table C1

Table C1 covers provisional numbers on passengers transported at national and international levels.

Structure of table C1 – Passengers transported by type of transport (provisional data, number of passengers only)



2* DsetID Table identification = C13* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [1 & 2]6 LDG Country of embarkation = Blank field7 UNL Country of disembarkation = Blank field8 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer

9 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer or Blank field (optional) **

10 TrainKM Passenger train movements in 1000 km = Blank field




* indicates key fields. ** optional variable Passkm is currently not stored in the RAIL production database and it is not disseminated in Eurobase tables as well; Eurostat intends to disseminate Passkm derived from Table C1 soon.


Example of recordIT;C1;2004;A0;1;;;17543250;8763890;;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38 Passenger (pass) p. 20 Passenger km (passkm) p. 21Flag of confidentiality p. 17Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18




Validation of data – Table C1


of error*


1 Importation is not possible if data exists on annex C3 for the country/year and period Internal consistency checks E 'C1-01-CE: data already exists on annex C3;'

1aRcount must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK »)


2 DsetID must be present and equal to C1 Existence of a field and check of value E



5 TransID must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2]** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 Pass must be present Existence of a field E

7

Passkm can be provided but is optional

Existence of a field W

'C1-7-CW: PASSKM is nullThe PASSKM field is optional for table C1 but if it is available (not empty), it should be provided as it will be disseminated with the ‘p’ flags (for provisional data).;’

FlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

8 If Pass = 0 and Passkm <> 0 then Passkmis set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'C1-8-CW: Passkm cannot have a value if Pass = 0 so Passkm is set to

0 as well;'

9 If Pass <> 0 and Pass >= 100 and Passkm = 0 then Passkm is set to NULL Internal consistency checks W 'C1-9-CW:If there is a value for Pass so Passkm cannot be 0 but has to


10

In Table C1, the value declared in pass for total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of the data declared in pass in Table C2 (‘3’ + ‘4’)

External consistency checks E'C1-10-CE:No record in C2;''C1-10-CE:Pass C2=[PassC2_val] Pass C1=[PassC1_val];''C1-10-CE:Pass C1=[PassC1_val] Pass C2=[PassC2_val];'

11

The sum of the annual values (total) declared in Table C1 in pass and passkm should be close to the sum of the 4 quarterly values declared in Table E2 for the same year. If the variation is between 5% and 20%, a warning is set. If it is greater than 20%, records are set in error.


'C1-11-CW:No record in E2;''C1-11-C[EW]:PassE2=[PassE2_val] Pass C1=[PassC1_val];''C1-11-C[EW]:Pass C1=[PassC1_val] Pass E2=[PassE2_val];''C1-11-C[EW]:PasskmE2=[PasskmE2_val] PasskmC1=[PasskmC1_val]''C1-11-C[EW]:PasskmC1=[PasskmC1_val] PasskmE2=[PasskmE2_val]'

22 If one transid is missing then the missing transid is inserted Internal consistency checks E

W 'C1-22-CW:No record;'



'C1-EM- :No record;''C1-EM-EE:PASS - Y=[PASS_val] / Y-1=[prec_PASS_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''C1-EM-EE:PASSKM - Y=[PASSKM_val] Y-1=[prec_PASSKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'


Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex C1 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).

Examples and explanations:Note, Passkm variable is currently optional (according to the Regulation) and it is not stored in the RAIL production database. Eurostat intends inclusion of Passkm variabale in the RAIL production database. Optionally provided figures will be disseminated and figures not provided as ‘:’ not available.






Table C2 covers provisional numbers on passengers transported at international level, by country of embarkation and by country of disembarkation.

Structure of table C2 – International passengers transported by country of embarkation and by country of disembarkation (provisional data, number of passengers only)



2* DsetID Table identification = C23* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [3 & 4]

6* LDG Country of embarkation


or “XX” for unknown country

7* UNL Country of disembarkation



8 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer

9 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km = Blank field







Example of recordIT;C2;2005;A0;4;CH;IT;152588;;;0;0IT;C2;2005;A0;3;IT;CH;364843;;;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38Total passenger transport p. 20 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18


Country of embarkation Computer record field reference < LDG>.


DefinitionPlace14 of embarkation – the place in which a railway passenger boards the railway vehicle to be conveyed by it.

A passenger transfer from one railway vehicle directly to another one, regardless of the railway transport operator, is not regarded as disembarkation / embarkation. Whenever during the transfer another mode of transport is used, this is to be regarded as disembarkation from a railway vehicle followed by a subsequent embarkation on a railway vehicle.


Classification and Codes to be usedThe 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes of these countries are used except “EL” for Greece, “UK" for United Kingdom. These are given in the Annex 3 of these Guidelines, and are also available on CIRCABC and on Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).


Country of disembarkation Computer record field reference < UNL>.


DefinitionPlace11 of disembarkation – the place in which a railway passenger leaves the railway vehicle after being conveyed by it.A passenger transfer from one railway vehicle directly to another one, regardless of the railway transport operator, is not regarded as disembarkation / embarkation. Whenever during the transfer another mode of transport is used, this is to be regarded as disembarkation from a railway vehicle followed by a subsequent embarkation on a railway vehicle.







The 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes of these countries are used except “EL” for Greece, “UK" for United Kingdom. These are given in the Annex 3 of these Guidelines, and are also available on CIRCABC and on Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).







of error*


1 Importation is not possible if data exists on annex C4 for the country/year and period Internal consistency checks E 'C2-01-CE: data already exists on annex C4;'

1aRcount must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK »)






6LDG must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK » and for unknown countries “XX”)


7UNL must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK » and for unknown countries “XX”)


8 Pass must be present Existence of a field E9 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E10 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

11

In Table C2, the sum of the data declared in Pass should be equal to the value declared in Table C1 in Pass for total international transport (‘2’)


12In table C2, no national transport for tonnes and tkm (‘LDG’ ‘RCOUNT’ and ‘UNL’ ‘RCOUNT’)


13 In Table C2, if 'TransID'='3' then 'UNL' ('LDG'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E

14 In Table C2, if 'TransID'='4' then 'LDG' ('UNL'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E'C2-EM- :No record;''C2-EM-EE:PASS - Y=[PASS_val] / Y-1=[prec_PASS_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning**provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided*** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.


Specifics rules in GENEDIRules for loading passengers number and for international incoming traffic: in Table C2 the loading country can neither be equal to the reporting country nor to the unloading country but the unloading country has to be equal to the reporting country for International incoming traffic.

Rules for unloading passengers number and for international outgoing traffic: in Table C2 the loading country must be equal to the reporting country and different from the unloading country but the unloading country must be different from the reporting country for international outgoing traffic.

Error marginsIn order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex C2 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).

Tests on mirror statisticsThe Eurostat Production System will include tests on mirror statistics, i.e. will compare the data in Table C2 provided by the various supplier countries. The aim will be to ensure that the inward international transport figures declared by country X from country Y are equal to the outward international transport figures declared by country Y to country X.

NB: Table C2 data will be used for the mirror checks only if Table C4 data (final data) are not available at the time the mirror checks are performed.



Table C3 covers final consolidated statistics on passengers transported at national and international levels.

Structure of table C3 – passengers transported by type of transport (final consolidated data).



2* DsetID Table identification = C33* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference Period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [1 & 2]6 LDG Country of embarkation = Blank field7 UNL Country of disembarkation = Blank field8 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer

9 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer








Example of recordIT;C3;2004;A0;2;;;4003319;2001660;;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38Passenger (pass) p. 20 Passenger-km (passkm) p. 21 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18






of error*







5 TransID must be present and belong to the interval [1, 2] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 Pass must be present Existence of a field E7 Passkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

8 If Pass = 0 and Passkm <> 0 then Passkm is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'C3-8-CW: Passkm cannot have a value if Pass = 0 so Passkm is set to

0 as well;'

9 If Pass <> 0 and Pass >= 100 and Passkm = 0) then Passkm is set to NULL Internal consistency checks W 'C3-9-CW:If there is a value for Pass so Passkm cannot be 0 but has to


10

In Table C3, the value declared in pass for total international transport (‘2’) should be equal to the sum of the data declared in pass in Table C4 (‘3’+ ‘4’)


11

The sum of the values declared in Table C3 in pass and passkm should be equal to the value declared in Table I External consistency checks W

'C3-11-CW:No record in I1;''C3-11-CW:Pass I1=[PassI1_val] Pass C3=[PassC3_val];''C3-11-CW:Pass C3=[PassC3_val] Pass I1=[PassI1_val];''C3-11-CW:Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val] Passkm C3=[PasskmC3_val];''C3-11-CW:Passkm C3=[PasskmC3_val] Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val];'

12

The sum of the annual values (total) declared in Table C3 in pass and passkm, should be close to the sum of the 4 quarterly values declared in Table E2 for the same year. If the variation is between 5% and 20%, a warning is set. If it is greater than 20%, records are set in error.


'C3-12-CW:No record in E2;''C3-12-C[EW]:PassE2=[PassE2_val] Pass C3=[PassC3_val];''C3-12-C[EW]:Pass C3=[PassC3_val] Pass E2=[PassE2_val];''C3-12-C[EW]:PasskmE2=[PasskmE2_val] PasskmC3=[PasskmC3_val]''C3-12-C[EW]:PasskmC3=[PasskmC3_val] PasskmE2=[PasskmE2_val]'


W 'C3-22-CW:No record;'


'C3-EM- :No record;''C3-EM-EE:PASS - Y=[PASS_val] / Y-1=[prec_PASS_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''C3-EM-EE:PASSKM - Y=[PASSKM_val] Y-1=[prec_PASSKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 4: Description of the Annex C**provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided *** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.

Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex C3 in the section “New approach on safety margins” of Chapter 1).






Table C4 covers final consolidated numbers on passengers transported at international level, by country of embarkation and by country of disembarkation.

Structure of table C4 – International passengers transported by country of embarkation and by country of disembarkation (final consolidated data, number of passengers only)



2* DsetID Table identification = C43* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* TransID Type of transport = [3 & 4]

6* LDG Country of embarkation



7* UNL Country of disembarkation



8 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer








Example of recordIT;C4;2004;A0;3;IT;AT;57932580;102589;;0;0IT;C4;2004;A0;4;AT;IT;75932580;157568;;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of transport p. 38Country of embarkation p. 90 Country of disembarkation p. 90 Passenger (pass) p. 20 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18




of error*








6LDG must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK » and for unknown countries “XX”)


7UNL must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK » and for unknown countries “XX”)



11

In Table C4, the sum of the data declared in pass (‘3’ + ‘4’) should be equal to the value declared in Table C3 in pass for total international transport (‘2’)


12In table C4, no national transport for tonnes and tkm (‘LDG’ ‘RCOUNT’ and ‘UNL’ ‘RCOUNT’)


13 In Table C4, if 'TransID'='3' then 'UNL' ('LDG'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E

14 In Table C4, if 'TransID'='4' then 'LDG' ('UNL'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E'C4-EM- :No record;''C4-EM-EE:PASS - Y=[PASS_val] / Y-1=[prec_PASS_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'



Specifics rules in GENEDIRules for consolidated loading passengers number and for international incoming traffic: in Table C4 the loading country can neither be equal to the reporting country nor to the unloading country but the unloading country has to be equal to the reporting country for International incoming traffic.

Rules for consolidated unloading passengers number and for international outgoing traffic: in Table C4 the loading country must be equal to the reporting country and different from the unloading country but the unloading country must be different from the reporting country for international outgoing traffic.

Error marginsIn order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex C4 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).

Tests on mirror statisticsThe Eurostat Production System will include tests on mirror statistics, i.e. will compare the data in Table C4 provided by the various supplier countries. The aim will be to ensure that the inward international transport figures declared by country X from country Y are equal to the outward international transport figures declared by country Y to country X.

NB: Table C2 data will be used for the mirror checks only if Table C4 data (final data) are not available at the time the mirror checks are performed.



Table C5 covers statistics on passenger train movements at national and international levels.

Structure of table C5 – passenger train movements



2* DsetID Table identification = C53* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 TransID Type of transport = Blank field6 LDG Country of embarkation = Blank field7 UNL Country of disembarkation = Blank field8 Pass Total passenger transport = Blank field


10 TrainKM Passenger train movements in 1000 km Numeric integer







Example of recordIT;C5;2004;A0;;;;;;260056;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Passenger (pass) p. 20 Passenger-km (passkm) p. 21 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18






of error*







EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E'C5-EM:No record;''C5-EM-EE: TRAINKM - Y=[trainkm_val] / Y-1=[prec_trainkm_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'


Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex C5 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 5: Description of the Annex D

Chapter 5: Description of the Annex D


Chapter 5: Description of the Annex D

5.0 Overview of the Annex D


The Annex D of the Regulation 91/2003 covers simplified statistics on annual passenger transport. Data are broken-down into 2 tables:

Table D1: passengers transported;Table D2: passenger train movements.


Dataset for Annex D: Annual statistics on passengers transport – simplified reporting


1 Rcount Reporting country ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom D1 & D2

2 DsetID Table identification D1, D2 D1 & D23 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions D1 & D24 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) D1 & D25 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer D1

6 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer D1

7 TrainKM Passenger train movements in 1000 km Numeric integer D2

8 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1: confidential0: not confidential D1 & D2


1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised D1 & D2


Examples of recordsES;D1;2004;A0;109632122;1311502;;0;0 ES;D2;2004;A0;;;22174;0;0





5.1 Description of table D1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table D1

Table D1 covers statistics on passenger transported.

Structure of table D1 – passengers transported



2* DsetID Table identification = D13* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer

6 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer







Example of recordES;D1;2004;A0;109632122;1311502;;0;0






Validation of data – Table D1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to D1 Existence of a field and check of value E


4 Period must be present and equal to A0 Existence of a field and check of value E5 Pass must be present Existence of a field E6 Passkm must be present Existence of a field EFlagC FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value EFlagD FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

7 If Pass = 0 and Passkm <> 0 then Passkm is set to 0 Internal consistency checks W 'D1-7-CW: Passkm cannot have a value if Pass = 0 so Passkm is set to

0 as well;'

8 If Pass <> 0 and Pass >= 100 and Passkm = 0) then Passkm is set to NULL Internal consistency checks W 'D1-8-CW:If there is a value for Pass so Passkm cannot be 0 but has to


9

The sum of the values declared in Table D1 in pass and Passkm should be equal to the value declared in I for small companies External consistency checks W

'D1-09-CW:No record in I1;''D1-09-CW:Pass I1=[PassI1_val] Pass D1=[PassD1_val];''D1-09-CW:Pass D1=[PassD1_val] Pass I1=[PassI1_val];''D1-09-CW:Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val] Passkm D1=[PasskmD1_val];''D1-09-CW:Passkm D1=[PasskmD1_val] Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val];'


'D1-EM- :No record;''D1-EM-EE:PASS - Y=[PASS_val] / Y-1=[prec_PASS_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''D1-EM-EE:PASSKM - Y=[PASSKM_val] Y-1=[prec_PASSKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'


Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex D1 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).


5.2 Description of table D2

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table D2

Table D2 covers statistics on passenger train movements.

Structure of table D2 – passenger train movements



2* DsetID Table identification = D23* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference Period = A0 5 Pass Total passenger transport = Blank field


7 TrainKM Passenger train movements in 1000 km Numeric integer






Example of recordES;D2;2004;A0;;;22174;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Train movements p. 21 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18


Validation of data – Table D2


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to D2 Existence of a field and check of value E



EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E'D2-EM- :No record;''D2-EM-EE:TRAINKM - Y=[trainkm_val] / Y-1=[prec_trainkm_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'


Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex D2 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 6: Description of the Annex E

Chapter 6: Description of the Annex E

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 6: Description of Annex E

Chapter 6: Description of the Annex E

6.0 Overview of the Annex E


The Annex E of the Regulation 91/2003 covers statistics on quarterly goods and passengers transport. Data are broken-down into 2 tables:

Table E1: Goods transportedTable E2: Passengers transported

These statistics shall be supplied for the undertakings covered by Annexes A and C (the undertakings reporting data in the annexes A and C (detailed reporting).

These statistics shall cover all the undertakings under detailed reporting only, which are listed in Annex I for the reference year.


Dataset for Annex E: Quarterly statistics on goods and passengers transport


1 RCount Reporting countryISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

E1 & E2

2 DsetID Table identification E1 & E2 E1 & E23 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions E1 & E24 Period Reference period On 2 positions (Q1; Q2; Q3; Q4) E1 & E25 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer E16 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer E17 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer E2

8 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer E2

9 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1: confidential0: not confidential E1 & E2

10 FlagDFlag of authorisation for the dissemination of confidential data

1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised E1 & E2

Frequency – every quarter

Examples of recordsUK;E1;2004;Q1;26837315;5096064;;;0;0 UK;E2;2004;Q3;;;23781500;3451850;0;0



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 6: Description of Annex EDefinitions of variables, classification and codes

Reporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20 Passengers (pass) p. 20 Passenger-km (passkm) p. 21

6.1 Description of table E1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table E1

Table E1 covers quarterly statistics on total goods transported

Structure of table E1 – Goods transported



2* DsetID Table identification = E1 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = Q1, Q2, Q3 or Q4 5 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 6 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer 7 Pass Total passenger transport = Blank field8 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km = Blank field






Explanation and examplesFigures provided in Table E1 (transport of goods in tonnes and goods transport performance in tonne-km) should include all types of transport (international, national and transit).

Example of recordUK;E1;2004;Q1;26837315;5096064;;;0;0




Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 6: Description of Annex EDefinitions of variables, classification and codes

Reporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20




Validation of data – Table E1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to E1 Existence of a field and check of value E


4 Period must be present and belong to the interval [Q1 to Q4] Existence of a field and check of value E

5 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E6 Tkm must be present Existence of a field E7 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E8 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

9

The quarterly values declared in Table E1 in tonnes and tkm should be close (+/- 20%) to the ¼ of the value declared in table A1 for the previous year.


'E1-09-CW:No record in A1;''E1-09-CW:Tonnes E1=[TonnesE1_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''E1-09-CW:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes E1=[TonnesE1_val];''E1-09-CW:Tkm E1=[TkmE1_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''E1-09-CW:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] TkmE1=[TkmE1_val];'

10The quarterly values declared in Table E1 in tonnes and tkm should be close (+/- 20%) to the previous quarter.

Internal consistency checks W

'E1-10-CW:No record in E1 for the previous quarter;''E1-10-CW:Tonnes E1 = [tonnes_current_E1_val] Tonnes Previous Quarter E1 = [tonnes_previous_E_val];''E1-10-CW:Tkm E1 = [tkm_current_E1_val] Tkm Previous Quarter E1 = [tkm_previous_E1_val];'

11

Validation rule which would compare, in Tons and Tkm, cumulative quarterly data with the previous cumulative period. Differences over 20% give a warning message; for the comparison of four quarters, differences over 50% give an error message.

Internal consistency checks EW

'E1-11-CW:No record in E1 for the previous year;''E1-11-CW:No record in E1 for the current year;''E1-11-CW:No record in E1 for the current year;''E1-11-CE: tonnes E1= [tonnes_current_E1_val] tonnes E1 Previous YEAR= [tonnes_previous_E1_val];''E1-11-CW: tonnes E1= [tonnes_current_E1_val] tonnes E1 Previous YEAR= [tonnes_previous_E1_val];''E1-11-CE: tkm E1= [tkm_current_E1_val] tkm E1 Previous YEAR= [tkm_previous_E1_val];''E1-11-CW: tkm E1= [tkm_current_E1_val] tkm E1 Previous YEAR= [tkm_previous_E1_val];'

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin E 'E1-EM- :No record;''E1-EM-EE:TONNES - Y=[TONNES_val] / Y-1=[prec_tonnes_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''E1-EM-EE:TKM - Y=[TKM_val] Y-1=[prec_TKM_val] / Absolute


Deviation= [GR_val]%;'





Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex E1 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).

6.2 Description of table E2

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table E2

Table E2 covers quarterly statistics on total passengers transported

Structure of table E2 – passengers transported



2* DsetID Table identification = E2 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = Q1, Q2, Q3 or Q4 5 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field6 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm = Blank field7 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer 8 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer


10 FlagD Flag of authorisation for the dissemination of confidential data 1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised



Explanation and examplesFigures provided in Table E2 (transport of passengers and passenger transport performance in pass-km) should include all types of transport (international and national). Transit should not be included in any of passenger transport statistics.

Example of record UK;E2;2004;Q3;;;23781500;3451850;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Passengers (pass) p. 20 Passenger-km (passkm) p. 21


Validation of data – Table E2


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to E2 Existence of a field and check of value E


4 Period must be present and belong to the interval [Q1 to Q4] Existence of a field and check of value E

5 Pass must be present Existence of a field E6 Passkm must be present Existence of a field E7 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E8 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

9

The quarterly values declared in Table E2 in pass and passkm should be close (+/- 20%) to the ¼ of the values declared in table C3 for the previous year.


'E2-09-CW:No record in C3;''E2-09-CW:Pass E2=[PassE2_val] Pass C3=[PassC3_val];''E2-09-CW:Pass C3=[PassC3_val] Pass E2=[PassE2_val];''E2-09-CW:Passkm E2=[PasskmE2_val] Passkm C3=[PasskmC3_val];''E2-09-CW:Passkm C3=[PasskmC3_val] PasskmE2=[PasskmE2_val];'

10The quarterly values declared in Table E2 in pass and passkm should be close (+/- 20%) to the previous quarter.

Internal consistency checks W

'E2-10-CW:No record in E2 for the previous quarter;''E2-10-CW:PASS E2 = [pass_current_E2_val] PASS Previous Quarter E2 = [pass_previous_E2_val];''E2-10-CW:PASSKM E2 = [passkm_current_E2_val] passkm Previous Quarter E2 = [passkm_previous_E2_val];'

11

Validation rule which would compare pass and passkm cumulative quarterly data with the previous cumulative period. Differences over 20% give a warning message; for the comparison of four quarters, differences over 50% give an error message.

Internal consistency checks WE

'E2-11-CW:No record in E2 for the previous year;''E2-11-CW:No record in E2 for the current year;''E2-11-CW:No record in E2 for the current year;''E2-11-CE:PASS E2 = [pass_current_E2_val]PASS E2 Previous YEAR = [pass_previous_E2_val];''E2-11-CW:PASS E2 = [pass_current_E2_val]PASS E2 Previous YEAR = [pass_previous_E2_val];''E2-11-CE:PASSKM E2 = [passkm_current_E2_val] PASSKM E2 Previous YEAR = [passkm_previous_E2_val];''E2-11-CW:PASSKM E2 = [passkm_current_E2_val] PASSKM E2 Previous YEAR = [passkm_previous_E2_val];'


'E2-EM- :No record;''E2-EM-EE:PASS - Y=[PASS_val] / Y-1=[prec_PASS_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''E2-EM-EE:PASSKM - Y=[PASSKM_val] Y-1=[prec_PASSKM_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning*** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.


Error margins:In order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new error margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex E2 in the section “New approach on error margins” of Chapter 1).



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of the Annex F

Chapter 7: Description of the Annex F

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex F

Chapter 7: Description of the Annex F

7.0 Overview of the Annex F


The Annex F of the Regulation 91/2003 covers regional statistics on goods and passengers transport. Data are broken-down into 4 tables:

Table F1: national goods transport by region of loading and region of unloading (NUTS 2)Table F2: international goods transport by region of loading and unloading (NUTS 2)Table F3: national passenger transport by region of embarkation and region of disembarkation

(NUTS 2)Table F4: international passenger transport by region of embarkation and region of

disembarkation (NUTS 2)

These statistics shall be supplied for the undertakings covered by Annexes A and C.


Note: Compared to the data collection for the reference year 2005, a different NUTS codification was applicable for the 2010 reference year.

The collection of Annex F data for the 2005 reference year included only 4 digit NUTS codes, irrespectively whether it was a country code or a region code.

This was not applicable anymore for the collection of 2010 data (taking place at the beginning of 2012), which should include 4 digit NUTS codes for all EEA regions and 2 digit NUTS codes for non-EEA countries (for instance, “UA” had to be provided instead of “UAXX”, which was no longer accepted).



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex FDataset for Annex F: Regional statistics on goods and passengers transport


1 Rcount Reporting country ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom F1 to F4

2 DsetID Table identification F1 to F4 F1 to F43 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions F1 to F44 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) F1 to F4

5 Trans ID Type of transport =[1]=[3, 4]

F1 & F3F2 & F4

6 LDG Region (NUTS 2) of loading/embarkation

On 4 positionsNUTS 2 according to the NUTS classification in force at the time of data collection*

orcode ISO-3166-alpha2 +’XX’ where the NUTS 2 region is unknown

orcode ISO-3166-alpha2 where the place is outside the EEA or

code ‘XXXX’ for unknown country and unknown NUTS 2 region

F1 to F4

7 UNL Region (NUTS 2) of unloading/disembarkation



orcode ISO-3166-alpha2 where the place is outside the EEA

orcode ‘XXXX’ for unknown country and unknown NUTS 2 region

F1 to F4

8 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer F1 & F29 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer F3 & F4

10 FlagC Flag of confidentiality 1: confidential0: not confidential F1 to F4

11 FlagDFlag of authorisation for the dissemination of confidential data

1: dissemination not authorised0: dissemination authorised F1 to F4

* For 2005 reference year: NUTS classification set by Regulation 1059/2003 was in force; for 2010 reference year: NUTS classification set by Regulations 105/2007 and 176/2008 is applicable. For details refer to CIRCABC.

Frequency – every five years

Examples of recordsFR;F1;2005;A0;1;FR25;FR24;45981650;;1;1FR;F2;2005;A0;3;FR23;AT11;2347230;;1;1FR;F3;2005;A0;1;FR22;FR25;;1547250;0;0FR;F4;2005;A0;4;CZ01;FR22;;7238690;1;1FR;F2;2005;A0;3;FR25;RU;798926;;0;0FR;F4;2005;A0;3;FR23;XXXX;;478468;0;0



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex FDefinitions of variables, classification and codes

Reporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Type of transport p. 38 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Passengers (pass) p. 20

Region of loading/embarkationComputer record field reference <LDG>.

First reference in RegulationAnnex F

DefinitionPlace15 of loading – the place taken into account is the place in which the goods are loaded on a railway vehicle to be transported by it.


Place16 of embarkation – the place in which a railway passenger boards the railway vehicle to be conveyed by it.

A passenger transfer from one railway vehicle directly to another one, regardless of the railway transport operator, is not regarded as disembarkation / embarkation. Whenever during the transfer another mode of transport is used, this is to be regarded as disembarkation from a railway vehicle followed by a subsequent embarkation on a railway vehicle.

Source of definitionGlossary for Transport Statistics (4th edition), Section A.V-31, A.V-12.

Classification and Codes to be usedThe NUTS 2 classification which is in force at the time when data collection takes place should be used. These are available on CIRCABC and on Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).

Region of unloading/disembarkationComputer record field reference <UNL>.

15 'place'='region' for the purpose of this Annex.16 'place'='region' for the purpose of this Annex.



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex FFirst reference in RegulationAnnex F

DefinitionPlace17 of unloading - the place taken into account is the place in which the goods are unloaded from a railway vehicle aft er being transported by it.


Place18 of disembarkation – the place in which a railway passenger leaves the railway vehicle after being conveyed by it.A passenger transfer from one railway vehicle directly to another one, regardless of the railway transport operator, is not regarded as disembarkation / embarkation. Whenever during the transfer another mode of transport is used, this is to be regarded as disembarkation from a railway vehicle followed by a subsequent embarkation on a railway vehicle.

Source of definitionGlossary for Transport Statistics (4th edition), Section A.V-32, A.V-13.

Classification and Codes to be usedThe NUTS 2 classification which is in force at the time when data collection takes place should be used. These are available on CIRCABC and on Ramon (Eurostat’s Classification Server).

Examples and explanationsThis chapter will be updated with examples and recommendations when 2005 data are entirely processed and disseminated.

Example of the data transmission for Annex FA train is loaded with goods in Sofia (region of loading) and in the course of its way to the final unloading region (Varna), it makes 2 intermediate stops at 2 different railway stations located in different NUTS 2 regions (Yambol, Burgas), unloading goods in each of these regions.

In such case, one single train is going from Sofia to Varna while accomplishing 3 different transports. Consequently, there must be at least 3 rail waybills, as follows:

Nr. 1 Sofia-Yambol

Nr. 2 Sofia-Burgas

Nr. 3 Sofia-Varna

Most railways compile statistics using data from the rail waybill (which are in most cases available on electronic media) to generate statistics on railway transport of goods. This counting method is identical for national and international transport.

17 'place'='region' for the purpose of this Annex.18 'place'='region' for the purpose of this Annex.



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex FOnly the first place of loading and the last place of unloading of the goods registered in the waybill should be collected (even in case goods are transshipped from one train to another train in course of the transport).

In the example previously given, there is one train performing 3 different transports: this means that the number of trains running is independent from the number of transports accomplished and counting of trains should be performed on the basis of other data sources.

7.1 Description of table F1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table F1

Table F1 covers national goods transport by region of loading and region of unloading (NUTS 2)

Structure of table F1 – national goods transport


1 RCount Reporting country ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

2 DsetID Table identification F1 3 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)5 TransID Type of transport = 1




orcode ISO-3166-alpha2 where the place is outside the

EEA orcode ‘XXXX’ for unknown country and unknown NUTS 2 region






8 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 9 Pass Total passenger transport = Blank field




* For 2005 reference year: NUTS classification set by Regulation 1059/2003 was in force; for 2010 reference year: NUTS classification set by Regulations 105/2007 and 176/2008 is applicable. For details refer to CIRCABC..

Example of recordFR;F1;2005;A0;1;FR25;FR24;45981650;;1;1



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex FDeadline for the transmission of data – 12 months after the end of the reference period

Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting countryp p. 15Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Type of transport p. 38 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Region of loading/embarkation p. 121 Region of unloading/disembarkation p. 121




Validation of data – Table F1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to F1 Existence of a field and check of value E

3 Year must be present and belong to the interval [2005, every five years] Existence of a field and check of value E

4 Period must be present and equal to [A0] Existence of a field and check of value E5 TransID must be present and equal to 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

6 LDG must be present and belong to the NUTS2 classification Existence of a field and check of value E

7 UNL must be present and belong to the NUTS2 classification Existence of a field and check of value E

8 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E9 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E10 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

11 each ‘LDG/UNL’ combination should appear once only Internal consistency checks E

12

‘TransID’=1 and left(‘'LDG’,2)'= left('UNL',2)='RCOUNT' i.e. both loading and unloading region need to be located in the reporting country


13The sum of values declared in Table F1 in tonnes should be equal to the value declared in Table A1 (national)



Error margins:Error margins have not been established for this Annex.




Table F2 covers international goods transport by region of loading and unloading (NUTS 2)

Structure of table F2 – international goods transport



2 DsetID Table identification F23 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)5 TransID Type of transport = [3, 4]











8 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer 9 Pass Total passenger transport = Blank field





Example of recordFR;F2;2005;A0;3;FR23;AT11;2347230;;1;1



Reporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Type of transport p. 38 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Region of loading/embarkation p. 121 Region of unloading/disembarkation p. 121



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of the Annex FValidation of data – Table F2


of error*






4 Period must be present and equal to [A0] Existence of a field and check of value E




8 Tonnes must be present Existence of a field E9 FlagC must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E10 FlagD must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

11

if 'TransID'='3' then (left('UNL',2) (left('LDG’,2)'='RCOUNT') i.e. in outgoing international transport the loading/embarkment region needs to be located inside the reporting country and the unloading/disembarkment region outside the reporting country


12

if 'TransID'='4' then left('LDG',2) (left('UNL',2)='RCOUNT') i.e. in incoming international transport the loading/embarkment region needs to be located outside the reporting country and unloading/disembarkment region inside the reporting country


13The sum of values declared in Table F2 in tonnes should be equal to the value declared in Table A3 (international incoming & outgoing)





Tests on mirror statisticsThe Eurostat Production System will include tests on mirror statistics, i.e. will compare the data in Table F2 and F4 provided by the various supplier countries. The aim will be to ensure that the inward international transport figures declared by country X from country Y at NUTS 2 level are equal to the outward international transport figures declared by country Y to country X at NUTS 2 level.

The errors detected will be of the “warning” type, serving mainly to show up methodological problems in the data-collection process.



Table F3 covers national passengers transport by region of loading and region of unloading (NUTS 2)

Structure of table F3 – national passengers transport



2 DsetID Table identification F33 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)5 TransID Type of transport = [1]











8 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field 9 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer





Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of Annex FExample of record

FR;F3;2005;A0;1;FR22;FR25;;1547250;0;0


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Type of transport p. 38 Passenger (pass) p. 20 Region of loading/embarkation p. 121 Region of unloading/disembarkation p. 121




Validation of data – Table F3


of error*






4 Period must be present and equal to [A0] Existence of a field and check of value E5 TransID must be present and equal to 1 Existence of a field and check of value E




11each ‘LDG/UNL’ combination should appear once only except if ‘LDG or UNL’ is unknown (XX)


12 ‘TransID’=1 and left(‘'LDG’,2)'= left('UNL',2)='RCOUNT' Internal consistency checks E

13The sum of values declared in Table F3 in number of passengers should be equal to the value declared in Table C3 (national)







Table F4 covers international passengers transport by region of loading and region of unloading

Structure of table F4 – international passengers transport



2 DsetID Table identification F43 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)5 TransID Type of transport =[3, 4]











8 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes = Blank field 9 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer





Example of record FR;F4;2005;A0;4;CZ01;FR22;;7238690;1;1



Reporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Flag of confidentiality p. 17 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data p. 18 Type of transport p. 38Passengers (pass) p. 20 Region of loading/embarkation p. 121 Region of unloading/disembarkation p. 121



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 7: Description of the Annex FValidation of data – Table F4


of error*






4 Period must be present and equal to [A0] Existence of a field and check of value E





11 if 'TransID'='3' then left('UNL',2)(left('LDG’,2)'='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E

12 if 'TransID'='4' then left('LDG',2) (left('UNL',2)='RCOUNT') Internal consistency checks E

13

The sum of values declared in Table F4 in number of passengers should be equal to the value declared in Table C4 (international incoming & outgoing)




Tests on mirror statistics:The Eurostat Production System will include tests on mirror statistics, i.e. will compare the data in Table F2 and F4 provided by the various supplier countries. The aim will be to ensure that the inward international transport figures declared by country X from country Y at NUTS 2 level are equal to the outward international transport figures declared by country Y to country X at NUTS 2 level.The errors detected will be of the “warning” type, serving mainly to show up methodological problems in the data-collection process.

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 8: Description of the Annex G

Chapter 8: Description of the Annex G

Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 8: Description of Annex G

Chapter 8: Description of the Annex G

8.0 Overview of the Annex G


The Annex G of the Regulation 91/2003 covers statistics on traffic flows on the rail network. Data are broken-down into 3 tables:

Table G1: goods transport, by network segmentTable G2: passenger transport, by network segmentTable G3: other (service trains, etc.), by network segment (optional)


Dataset for Annex G: Statistics on traffic flows on the rail network


1 RCount Reporting country ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom G1 to G3

2 DsetID Table identification G1 to G3 G1 to G33 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions G1 to G34 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) G1 to G3

5 NetSeg Network segment

On 8 positions *ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom + ‘S’ + indication of direction (1 or 2) + number on 4 positions

G1 to G3

6 FlagTen Rail TEN segment 0: NO1: YES G1 to G3

7 Train Number of trains Numeric integer G1 to G3

* codification of the network segments on 8 positions has been agreed by the written procedure in June 2008.

Frequency – every five years

Examples and explanationsExamples of records

ES;G1;2005;A0;ESS10001;1;272800ES;G2;2005;A0;ESS20012;0;1625000ES;G3;2005;A0;ESS10013;1;5600500

Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16

Network SegmentComputer record field reference <Netseg>.




First reference in RegulationAnnex G

DefinitionA set of network segments has been defined by the Member State and includes at least the rail TEN on their national territory. It is defined as follows:

the geographical coordinates and other data needed to identify and map each network segment as well as the links between segments,

information on the characteristics (including the capacity) of the trains using each network segment. Each network segment is described using the following characteristics:

→ Origin and destination (starting and ending point of a segment)→ AGC line number (a link to AGC agreement can be found in CIRCABC)→ Flag on whether the segment belong to TEN network (a link to country specific maps of TEN

network can be found in the same CIRCABC Transport statistics)→ Length of the segment in kilometres→ Number of tracks→ Flag on whether the segment is electrified→ For electrified segments the type of current (AC/DC, frequency, voltage)→ If possible, the UIC line code(s) (that aims at matching the segment with GISCO system and

helps in production of maps)

It should be noted that the traffic is recorded in both directions of each segment, identifiable by the code following –S-:

“1” means the same directions as in technical characteristics and in geographical co-ordinates (from point A to point B)

“2” means the opposite direction (from point B to point A).

Geographical coordinates means spherical co-ordinates measured in latitude and longitude. If the earth is considered to be a sphere, latitude and longitude are angles measured from the earth's centre to a point on the earth surface. Latitude and longitude are measured in degrees, minutes and seconds. The equator has latitude 0°, the North Pole 90°, and the South Pole -90°. The Prime Meridian, indicating a longitude of 0°, starts at the North Pole, passes through Greenwich, England and ends at the South Pole (Working Group document RAIL/2006/10, article 1-26).

Examples and explanationsSegments and related codification are defined by the countries in such a way to assure their unity in terms of technical characteristics and traffic intensity along an entire segment (see following table). This information should be provided to Eurostat together with Annex G data.

Example of codification, description and technical characteristics of segments (format of data transmission)NetSeg From From Latitude-Longitude: To To Latitude-Longitude:BES10001 BRUXELLES-MIDI 50.84 (50°50') - 4.34 (4°20') BRUXELLES-NORD 50.86 (50°51') - 4.36 (4°21')BES10002 HALLE 50.73 (50°44') - 4.24 (4°14') WANNEHAIN 50.57 (50°34') - 3.27 (3°16')BES10003 LEUVEN 50.88 (50°52') - 4.72 (4°42') ANS 50.66 (50°39') - 5.51 (5°30')BES10004 ZWIJNDRECHT-FORT 51.21 (51°12') - 4.31 (4°18') WAASLANDHAVEN-ZUID 51.26 (51°15') - 4.28 (4°16')





Regulation n°91/2003, Annex G

Classification and Codes to be usedISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom + ‘S’ + indication of direction (1 or 2) + number on 4 positions.

The code of each network segment should be unique. If a certain network segment for which data has already been reported does not anymore exist in a subsequent data reporting (for example, it is no longer operational or is split into 2 or more segments), its code should not be re-attributed to a newly created network segment.

Rail transport European NetworkComputer record field reference <FlagTen>.


DefinitionTEN (Trans-European Network) railway line comprise of the high-speed rail lines and conventional rail lines as defined in the Decision No 1692/96/EC on the Community guidelines for the development of Trans-European transport network (Article 10) and its amendments;

Source of definitionWorking Group document RAIL/2006/10, article 1-27


Code Label1 YES (the segment is a part of the TEN railway line)0 NO (the segment is not a part of the TEN railway line)

Train (Number of)Computer record field reference <Train>.


DefinitionTrain means one or more railway vehicles hauled by one or more locomotives or railcars, or one railcar travelling alone, running under a given number or specific designation from an initial fixed point to a terminal fixed point. A light engine, i.e. a locomotive travelling on its own, is not considered to be train, (except for provision of data for Annex H).

Source of definitionRegulation 1192/2003, article 1 -19




8.1 Description of table G1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table G1

Table G1 covers goods transport, by network segment

Structure of table G1 – goods transport, by network segment

Field numbe

rVariable Description Coding


2 DsetID Table identification G1 3 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)


On 8 positions ISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom + ‘S’ + indication of direction (1 or 2) + number on 4 positions

6 FlagTen Rail TEN segment 0: NO1: YES

7 Train Number of trains Numeric integer

Example of recordDK;G1;2005;A0;DKS10001;1;272800DK;G1;2005;A0;DKS20001;1;125400

The first example refers to the traffic flow of goods trains from København H to Østerport, whereas the second one refers to the traffic flow of goods trains on the opposite direction, but on the same rail network segment i.e., from Østerport to København H.


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Network segment p. 136 Rail TEN segment p. 138 Number of trains p. 138




Validation of data – Table G1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to G1 Existence of a field and check of value E


4 Period must be present and equal to [A0] Existence of a field and check of value E5 NetSeg must be present** Existence of a field E6 FlagTen must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E7 Number of trains must be present Existence of a field E

8 For each segment, both directions need to be reported Internal consistency checks W

9

The number of trains (declared in annex G table G1) multiplied by the length of the network segment may not to be higher than the train-km (declared in Annex A table 9)


10

The Network Segment Code should contain 8 positions. The 2 first positions should be the country code, the position 3 should be equal to 'S'. The position 4 should be 1 or 2 and to finish the 4 last positions should be numeric.


11The TEN/NOT TEN attributes should be equivalent for all segments of Table G1 and Table G2.

Internal consistency checks E 'G1-11-CE: TEN/NOT TEN attributes are not equivalent for all segments in G1 and G2;'

12 The TEN/NOT TEN attribute should be consistent for all segment codes in dataset G1. Internal consistency checks E 'G1-12-CE: TEN/NOT TEN attributes are not consistent for all segments

in G1;'*E: Error – W: Warning** provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided*** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.





Table G2 covers passengers transport, by network segment

Structure of table G2 – passengers transport, by network segment



2 DsetID Table identification G2 3 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)






The first example refers to the traffic flow of passenger trains from Ringsted to Odense, whereas the second one refers to the traffic flow of passenger trains on the opposite direction, but on the same rail network segment, i.e., from Odense to Ringsted.


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15Table identification p. 15Year p. 16Period p. 16Network segment p. 136Rail TEN segment p. 138 Number of trains p. 138




of error*








9

The number of trains (declared in annex G table G2) multiplied by the length of the network has not to be higher than the train-km (declared in Annex C table C5).


10



11The TEN/NOT TEN attributes should be equivalent for all segments of Table G2 and Table G3 (if available).








Table G3 covers other traffic (service trains, etc.), by network segment (optional)

Structure of table G3 – goods transport, by network segment (optional)



2 DsetID Table identification G33 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions4 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0)






The first example refers to the traffic flow of other trains from Fredericia to Taulov, whereas the second one refers to the traffic flow of other trains on the opposite direction, but on the same rail network segment, i.e., from Taulov to Fredericia.


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Network segment p. 136 Rail TEN segment p. 138 Number of trains p. 138




of error*








9



10The TEN/NOT TEN attributes should be equivalent for all segments of Table G3 (if available) and Table G1.





Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 9: Description of Annex H

Chapter 9: Description of the Annex H


Chapter 9: Description of the Annex H

9.0 Overview of the Annex H


The Annex H of the Regulation 91/2003 covers annual statistics on accidents. Data are broken-down into 4 tables:

Table H1: Number of significant accidents and number of serious injury accidents (optional)19, by type of accident;

Table H2: Number of accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods;Table H3: Number of persons killed, by type of accident and by category of person;Table H4: Number of persons seriously injured, by type of accident and category of person.


Dataset for Annex H: Statistics on accidents


1 RCount Reporting countryISO-3166-alpha2 except “EL” for Greece, “UK” for United Kingdom

H1 to H4

2 DsetID Table identification H1 to H4 H1 to H43 Year Year of the dataset On 4 positions H1 to H44 Period Reference period On 2 positions (A0) H1 to H45 AccID Type of accident [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9] H1, H3 & H46 PersID Category of person [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9] H3 & H47 NbAccSign Number of significant accidents Numeric integer H1 8 NbAccInj Number of serious injury accidents (optional) Numeric integer H1

9 NbAccDGIn Number of accident involving the transport of dangerous goods Numeric integer H2

10 NbAccDGRe Number of accident releasing dangerous goods Numeric integer H211 NbPersK Number of persons killed Numeric integer H312 NbPersI Number of persons seriously injured Numeric integer H4


Examples of recordsPT;H1;2004;A0;1;;310580;250260;;;;PT;H2;2004;A0;;;;;560890;450630;;PT;H3;2004;A0;2;1;;;;;203000;PT;H4;2004;A0;2;2;;;;;;5000


19 Introduced by the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1192/2003 of 3 July 2003 OJ L 167, 04.07.2003, p. 13-16.




Type of accident Computer record field references <AccID>

First reference in RegulationAnnex H

DefinitionThe main types of accident are: Collisions (collision of trains) means a front to front or front to end collision between two trains or a (side) collision between a train and a part of another train not clear of the loading gauge, or a collision of a train with:

a. shunting movements,b. fixed objects such as buffer stops orc. objects temporarily present at or near the track (except at level crossings), such as

rocks, landslides, trees, lost parts of railway vehicles, road vehicles and machines or equipment for track maintenance;

Derailment means any accident in which a railway vehicle runs off its track (leaves the rails). Derailments that follow a collision are excluded.Level crossing accidents means accidents at level crossings involving at least one railway vehicle and one or more road vehicles, other users of the road such as pedestrians or other objects temporarily present at or near the track.Level crossing means any level intersection between a road and a railway, as authorised by the infrastructure manager and open to public or private road users; ‘infrastructure manager’ means any body or undertaking that is responsible in particular for establishing and maintaining railway infrastructure, or a part thereof, as defined in Article 3 of Directive 91/440/EEC, which may also include the management of infrastructure control and safety systems. The functions of the infrastructure manager on a network or part of a network may be allocated to different bodies or undertakings (Working Group document RAIL/2006/10, article 1-6).Accidents to persons caused by rolling stock in motion means accidents to one or more persons that are either hit by a railway vehicle or part of it or hit by an object detached from the vehicle. Persons that fall from railway vehicles are included, as well as persons that fall or are hit by loose objects when travelling on-board vehicles.Fires in rolling stock means fires and explosions that occur in railway vehicles (including their load) when they are running between the departure station and the destination, including intermediate stops.

Source of definition Working Group document RAIL/2006/10, articles 1-36 to 1-41, and Regulation 1192/2003, article 1-29

Classification and codes to be usedAccording to the Working Group document RAIL/2006/09, this variable can be equal to:




Code Label1 Collisions2 Derailments3 Accidents involving level crossings4 Accidents to persons caused by rolling stock in motion5 Fire in rolling stock6 Others7 Total *9 Unknown

* The total [7] must be equal of the sum of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9].

Category of personComputer record field references <PersID>


DefinitionThe main categories of persons being considered are:

Rail passengers, included are any authorised or unauthorised person embarked on a railway vehicle, except the train crew. Intending passengers waiting at station are excluded.

Employees (staff of contractors and self-employed contractors is included) means any person whose employment is in connection with a railway and is on duty at the moment of the accident. It includes the crew of the train and persons handling rolling stock and infrastructure installations.

Others – this category should include persons not regarded as passengers or employees (e.g. level crossing users, unauthorised persons on railway premises20).

Source of definition Regulation 1192/2003 (definition of rail passenger) and Working Group document RAIL/2006/10, article 42 (employees)

Classification and codes to be usedAccording to Annex H, this variable can be equal to:

Code Label1 Passengers2 Employees3 Others4 Total *9 Unknown

* The total [4] must be equal of the sum of [1, 2, 3, and 9].

Because of new approach on safety statistics, Eurostat intends to collect accident data according to the legal act, which is in force without any modifications of the definitions applied.

20 Level crossing users" and "unauthorised persons on railway premises" as categories of persons were proposed by the WG on Rail transport statistics in 2006 and 2007. Because of new approach on safety statistics, these categories will finally not be implemented in the legal act.




Examples and explanationsAfter the validation and the processing of the datasets referring to several reference years, remarks on data transmission issues and the methodology of data collection can be highlighted. Furthermore, some methodological questions emanated directly from the Member States. They have been included in the Guidelines for the data transmission in order to increase the data quality. General remarks concerning all annexes of the Regulation 91/2003 are presented in paragraph 1.3. Specific methodological points of Annex H are presented below.

According to Note 5 of Annex H, during the first five years of application of this Regulation, Member States may report these statistics according to national definitions (if data conforming to harmonised definitions are not available). This five year period covered reporting years 2004-2008. Countries should inform Eurostat on national definitions applied when providing accident statistics. Starting from 2009 reference year countries should apply definitions set up in the Regulation only.

Eurostat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ERA establishing a framework for cooperation between ERA and Eurostat. According to the MoU, ERA will provide Eurostat with data so that Eurostat can feature this data in its new Eurobase tables Safety all modes.

Once the Amending Regulation 91/2003 stipulating the discontinuation of Annex H will be in force rail accident data will be collected only by ERA and its data will be disseminated in the Eurobase according to the MoU signed in December 2012.

Separation of “heavy rail” from other urban rail systemsIn the case of data requested in Annex H, data declared should not include metro and light rail accidents unless a ‘heavy’ rail vehicle was also involved in the accident. Some complementary definitions are available in the "Glossary for Transport Statistics" 4th edition (rail vehicle, for example). The document is available at the following address: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/other_documents/transport_glossary_4_ed/index.cfm?TargetUrl=DSP_TRANSPORT_GLOSSARY_4_ED.

In some Member States, companies that have to proceed to the simplified reporting provide services for the transport of passengers by rail, metro, light rail and tram. However, the figures they dispose of do not allow for a separation between rail on one side and tram, metro and light rail on the other side. The latter category should not be included according to Regulation 91/2003.

In fact, some transport companies cannot statistically differentiate the quantity and frequency of train types, neither the number of passengers. The problem of urban rail is also the reason why Article 5 §2 of the Regulation leaves several possibilities for collecting the information, including the supply of estimates.

Eurostat thus suggests the reporting authorities to contact these companies to get an idea of train-kms, average distance travelled and the number of passengers; elements that should be sufficient for at least estimating the data needed for simplified reporting.

Moreover, it is important to note that the German translation of the Regulation 91/2003 excludes both “Stadt-Bahnen” (light rail) and “S-Bahnen” (commuter trains) from the coverage of the Regulation. Only light rail should be excluded. S-Bahnen, meaning urban commuter trains, shall be reported.






9.1 Description of table H1

Coverage of rail transport statistics in table H1

Table H1 covers statistics on significant accidents and number of serious injury accidents, by type of accident

Structure of table H1 – Number of significant accidents and number of serious injury accidents, by type of accident



2* DsetID Table identification = H1 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* AccID Type of accident = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]6 PersID Category of person = Blank field7 NbAccSign Number of significant accidents Numeric integer

8 NbAccInj Number of serious injury accidents (optional)** Numeric integer

9 NbAccDGIn Number of accident involving the transport of dangerous goods = Blank field

10 NbAccDGRe Number of accident releasing dangerous goods = Blank field

11 NbPersK Number of persons killed = Blank field12 NbPersI Number of persons seriously injured = Blank field

* indicates key fields. ** optional variable NbAccInj is stored in the RAIL production database but it is not disseminated in Eurobase tables.


Examples and explanationsOnly significant accidents should be reported. Suicides and attempted suicides should not be included in these statistics.

Example of recordPT;H1;2004;A0;1;;310580;250260;;;;





Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16Type of accident p. 147 Category of person p. 148

Significant accidentComputer record field references <NbAccSign>


DefinitionSignificant accident means any accident involving at least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least one killed or seriously injured person, or in significant damage to stock, track, other installations or environment, or extensive disruptions to traffic. Accidents in workshops, warehouses and depots are excluded.Significant damage to stock, track, other installations or environment means damage that is equivalent to EUR 150 000 or more (Working Group document RAIL/2006/10, article 1-30).Extensive disruptions to traffic means that train services on a main railway line are suspended for more than six hours (Working Group document RAIL/2006/10, article 1-31).

Source of definition Regulation 1192/2003, article 1-24.

Serious injury accidentComputer record field references <NbAccInj>


DefinitionSerious injury accident means any accident involving at least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least one killed or seriously injured person. Accidents in workshops, warehouses and depots are excluded.





Validation of data – Table H1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to H1 Existence of a field and check of value E



5 ACCID must be present and equal to [1,2 ,3 ,4, 5, 6, 7 and 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 NbAccSign must be present Existence of a field E

20

In Table H1, for NbAccSign and NbAccInj, the declared value of total type of accident (‘7’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbAccSign and NbAccInj for type of accident [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9].

Internal consistency checks E 'H1-20-CW:No record;''H1-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 7 <> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 9;'

22 If one value is missing then the missing record is inserted; Internal consistency checks E

W 'H1-22-CW:No record;'

EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin A

'H1-EM- :No record;''H1-AL-AW:NBACCSIGN - Y=[NBACCSIGN_val] Y-1=[prec_NBACCSIGN_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''H1-AL-AW:NBACCINJ - Y=[NBACCINJ_val] Y-1=[prec_NBACCINJ_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'

*E: Error – W: Warning – A: Alert** provision of all the TransID records is strongly recommended even if a "0" value has to be provided*** values names in brackets are replaced in the real messages by corresponding field values of the record.


New alert margins definedIn order to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive periods of time (years, quarters), new alert margins have been defined (see new thresholds defined for Annex H1 in the section “New approach on error margins and alerts” of Chapter 1).



Table H2 covers statistics on accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods

Structure of table H2 – Number of accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods



2* DsetID Table identification = H2 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5 AccID Type of accident = Blank field6 PersID Category of person = Blank field7 NbAccSign Number of significant accidents = Blank field

8 NbAccInj Number of serious injury accidents (optional) = Blank field

9 NbAccDGIn Number of accident involving the transport of dangerous goods Numeric integer

10 NbAccDGRe Number of accident releasing dangerous goods Numeric integer

11 NbPersK Number of persons killed = Blank field12 NbPersI Number of persons seriously injured = Blank field



Example of recordPT;H2;2004;A0;;;;;560890;450630;;



Accident involving the transport of dangerous goodsComputer record field references <NbAccDGIn>



DefinitionAccident involving the transport of dangerous goods means any accident or incident that is subject to reporting in accordance with RID/ADR section 1.8.5.


Examples and explanationPlease note that the definition of the accident involving the transport of dangerous goods include also accidents or incidents, which may occur during the whole transport process of a dangerous good. It includes the situation when the railway vehicle is not in motion (e.g.: a leakage which happened at sidings), which makes the definition broader that the definition of railway accident (where at least one rail rail vehicle is supposed to be in motion). For details see annex 5.

List of competent national authorities, which collect notifications of occurrences involving dangerous goods:

http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/adr/country-info_e.htm

Accident releasing dangerous goodsComputer record field references <NbAccDGRe>


DefinitionAccident releasing dangerous goods means any accident involving at least one railway vehicle transporting dangerous goods resulting in their release, which is subject to reporting in accordance with RID/ADR section 1.8.5.

Source of definition Draft Rail Accidents Definitions, January 2003.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1192/2003, second note of the Annex of the Regulation

For details, refer to Annex 4.



http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/adr/country-info_e.htm




of error*






4 Period must be present and equal to A0 Existence of a field and check of value E5 NbAccDGIn must be present Existence of a field E6 NbAccDGRe must be present Existence of a field E

7

The value for the number of accidents releasing dangerous goods cannot be higher than the number of accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods


EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin A

'H2-EM- :No record;''H2-AL-AW:NBACCDGIN - Y=[NBACCDGIN_val] Y-1=[prec_NBACCDGIN_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;''H2-AL-AW:NBACCDGRE - Y=[NBACCDGRE_val] Y-1=[prec_NBACCDGRE_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'






Table H3 covers statistics on persons killed, by type of accident and by category of person, excluding suicides

Structure of table H3 – Number of persons killed, by type of accident and by category of person



2* DsetID Table identification = H3 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* AccID Type of accident = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]6* PersID Category of person = [1, 2, 3, 4, 9]7 NbAccSign Number of significant accidents = Blank field




11 NbPersK Number of persons killed = Numeric integer 12 NbPersI Number of persons seriously injured = Blank field



Example of recordPT;H3;2004;A0;2;1;;;;;203000;


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Period p. 16 Type of accident p. 147 Category of person p. 148

Person killedComputer record field references <NbPersK>



DefinitionPerson killed means any person killed immediately or dying within 30 days as a result of an accident, excluding suicides.

Source of definition Regulation 1192/2003, article 1-26

Examples and explanationsSuicides should be (as fas as possible) excluded from the data provided in Table H3.

Suicide


DefinitionSuicide means an act to deliberately injure oneself resulting in death, as recorded and classified by the competent national authority.

Source of definition Regulation 1192/2003, article 1-29






of error*







5 AccID must be present and belong to the interval [1,2 ,3 ,4, 5, 6, 7, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 PersID must be present and belong to the interval [1,2 ,3 ,4, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

7 NbPersK must be present Existence of a field E

20

In Table H3, for NbPersK, the declared value of total type of accident (‘7’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbPersK for type of accident [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9] by category of person


'H3-20-CW:No record;''H3-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 7 <> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 9;'

21

In Table H3, for NbPersK, the declared value of total category of person (‘4’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbPersK for category of persons [1,2,3,5 and 9] by type of accident [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9]


'H3-21-CW:No record;''H3-21-CE:Clarification resquested, 4 <> 1 + 2 + 3 + 9;'

22 If one accid is missing then the missing accid is inserted Internal consistency checks W

E 'H3-22-CW:No record;'

23 If one persid is missing then the missing persid is inserted Internal consistency checks W


EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin A'H3-EM- :No record;''H3-AL-AW:NBPERSK - Y=[NBPERSK_val] / Y-1=[prec_NBPERSK_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'






Table H4 covers statistics on persons seriously injured, by type of accident and category of person, excluding attempted suicides.

Structure of table H4 – Number of persons seriously injured, by type of accident and category of person



2* DsetID Table identification = H4 3* Year Year of the dataset = YYYY 4* Period Reference period = A0 5* AccID Type of accident = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]6* PersID Category of person = [1, 2, 3, 4, 9]7 NbAccSign Number of significant accidents = Blank field




11 NbPersK Number of persons killed = Blank field12 NbPersI Number of persons seriously injured = Numeric integer



Example of recordPT;H4;2004;A0;2;2;;;;;;5000


Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16Period p. 16 Type of accident p. 147 Category of person p. 148

Person seriously injuredComputer record field references <NbPersI>



Definitionperson seriously injured means any person injured who was hospitalised for more than 24 hours as a result of an accident, excluding attempted suicides.


Examples and explanationsAttempted suicides should be (as fas as possible) excluded from the data provided in Table H4.

Attempted suicide


DefinitionAttempted suicide means an act to deliberately injure oneself resulting in serious injury, but not in death, as recorded and classified by the competent national authority.







of error*







5 AccID must be present and belong to the interval [1,2 ,3 ,4 , 5, 6, 7, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

6 PersID must be present and belong to the interval [1,2 ,3 ,4, 9] ** Existence of a field and check of value E

7 NbPersI must be present Existence of a field E

20

In Table H4, for NbPersI, the declared value of total type of accident (‘7’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbPersI for type of accident [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9] by category of person


'H4-20-CW:No record;''H4-20-CE:Clarification resquested, 7 <> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 9;'

21

In Table H4, for NbPersI, the declared value of total category of person (‘4’) should be equal to the sum of the values declared in NbPersI for category of persons [1,2,3,5 and 9] by type of accident [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9]


'H4-21-CW:No record;''H4-21-CE:Clarification resquested, 4 <> 1 + 2 + 3 + 9;'

22 If one accid is missing then the missing accid is inserted Internal consistency checks W


23 If one persid is missing then the missing persid is inserted Internal consistency checks W


EM Error Margin rule. Error Margin A'H4-EM- :No record;''H4-AL-AW:NBPERSI - Y=[NBPERSI_val] / Y-1=[prec_NBPERSI_val] / Absolute Deviation= [GR_val]%;'



Part A: Recommendations and methodology for data collectionChapter 10: Description of Annex I

Chapter 10: Description of the Annex I


10.0 Overview of the Annex I


The Annex I of the Regulation 91/2003 collects background information on undertakings behind the data of other annexes. Figures have to be supplied for each railway undertaking for which data are provided according to Annexes A to H. Data are aggregated in one table (I1)

The information is used to check which undertakings are covered by the tables in Annexes A to H and to validate the coverage of Annexes A and C in relation to total rail transport activity.


Dataset for Annex I:

Field number Variable Description Coding Remarks

1* RCount Reporting country use ISO3166-alpha2 except UK for United Kingdom

2* DsetID Table identification I13* Year Year of the dataset YYYY

4* UCode Undertaking code

use ISO3166-alpha2 except UK for United Kingdom + number on 3 positions(this code should be unique and if possible stable during the reporting period)

5 UName Name of undertaking character optional

6 CountID Country in which undertaking is based

use ISO3166-alpha2 except UK for United Kingdom

7 IntFret Freight transport activity: international 1: YES – 0: NO

8 Natfret Freight transport activity: national 1: YES – 0: NO

9 Intpass Passenger transport activity: international 1: YES – 0: NO

10 Natpass Passenger transport activity: national 1: YES – 0: NO

11 DsetA Data included in annex A 1: YES – 0: NO12 DsetB Data included in annex B 1: YES – 0: NO13 DsetC Data included in annex C 1: YES – 0: NO14 DsetD Data included in annex D 1: YES – 0: NO15 DsetE Data included in annex E 1: YES – 0: NO16 DsetF Data included in annex F 1: YES – 0: NO17 DsetG Data included in annex G 1: YES – 0: NO18 DsetH Data included in annex H 1: YES – 0: NO19 Tonnes Declared value in tonnes Numeric integer or blank field optional20 Tkm Declared value in 1000 tkm Numeric integer or blank field optional21 Pass Total passenger transport Numeric integer or blank field optional

22 Passkm Total passenger transport in 1000 passenger-km Numeric integer or blank field optional




Examples of recordsFR;I1;2003;FR001;EUROTUNNEL;FR;1;1;1;0;1;1;1;0;1;0;0;0;4520000;5630250;7892150;1563698




Definitions of variables, classification and codesReporting country p. 15 Table identification p. 15 Year p. 16 Undertaking p. 14 Weight (of goods) (tonnes) p. 19 Tonne-km per rail (tkm) p. 20 Passengers (pass) p. 20 Passenger-km (passkm) p. 21 Type of transport p. 38

Railway undertaking

DefinitionRailway undertaking means any public or private undertaking which provides services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail. Undertakings whose only business is to provide services for the transport of passengers by metro, tram and/or light rail are excluded;


Examples and explanationsInformation to be provided shall be supplied for each railway undertaking for which data are provided according to Annexes A to H. This information shall be used

- to check which undertakings are covered by the tables in Annexes A to H;- to validate the coverage of Annexes A and C in relation to total rail transport activity;

Following the definition of railway undertaking, all railway undertakings should be included in Annex I, also these ones dealing with non-transport activities, but providing services related with transport of goods and/or passengers by rail (e.g. infrastructure managers, infrastructure maintenance/construction services, etc.), especially if their activities require operation on railway network. Because of their specificity, they may be involved in railway accidents and these accidents should be included in the data provisions of Annex H. For these types of railway undertakings Annex H (Dset H) should be declared in Annex I.

To ensure the quality and the relevance of data, it is important to provide the Annex I only once a year. In other words, the list of undertaking provided should be stable throughout the reference year. Consequently, for the transmission of data relating to Annex E (quarterly data), the list of undertaking has to be the same during the entire year.

Expalanations on particular variables:1. UCode – this code should be unique and if possible stable during the reporting period.2. IntFret; Natfret; Intpass; Natpass – at least one activity should be declared for each railway

undertaking with the following exceptions:− Undertakings providing non-transport related services (e.g. infrastructure manages,

infrastructure maintenance/construction services, etc.);− Undertakings which activity is narrowed inot passenger and/or goods transport in transit via

the declaring country;




A set of validation rules was set up in order to check the correctness of the declaration settings (see the table below).3. DsetE – the code 1 in this field only for railway undertakings which are under detailed reporting

either for freight or/and for passenger transport activity (DsetA or/and DsetC set to 1);4. DsetF; DsetG – the code 1 in these fields only for the years 2005, 2010, 2015, etc.5. DsetH – the code 1 in this field means that the undertaking considered is included in the figures

reported in Annex H, but not that this undertaking has reported any accident (theoretically, all undertakings should be included);

6. Tonnes; Tkm; Pass; Passkm – these variables, although being optional, are important for the consistency checks; they allow checking whether a railway undertaking has been classified correctly as being under detailed or simplified reporting; Eurostat recommends provisions of approximate figures for these variables for validation purposes.




Validation of data – Table I1


of error*




2 DsetID must be present and equal to I1 Existence of a field and check of value E


4

Ucode must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK ») followed by a number on 3 digits(this code should be unique and if possible stable during the reporting period)


5CountID must be present and belong to the ISO-3166-alpha 2 nomenclature (except for « UK »)


6 IntFret must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E7 NatFret must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E8 Intpass must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E9 Natpass must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

10 Dset A to Dset H must be present and equal to 0 or 1 Existence of a field and check of value E

11

The values declared in Table I1 in tonnes and tkm should be close (+/-5%) to the sum of quarterly values declared in table E1 and equal to the sum of the totals of annual values declared in A1 and B1 for the same year


'I1-11-CW:No record in A1;''I1-11-CW:Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val] Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tonnes A1=[TonnesA1_val] Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val] Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tkm A1=[TkmA1_val] Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val];''I1-11-CW:No record in B1;''I1-11-CW:Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val] Tonnes B1=[TonnesB1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tonnes B1=[TonnesB1_val] Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val] Tkm B1=[TkmB1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tkm B1=[TkmB1_val] Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val];''I1-11-CW:No record in E1;''I1-11-CW:Tonnes E1=[TonnesE1_val] Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tonnes I1=[TonnesI1_val] Tonnes E1=[TonnesE1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tkm E1=[TkmE1_val] Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val];''I1-11-CW:Tkm I1=[TkmI1_val] TkmE1=[TkmE1_val];'

12 The values declared in Table I1 in pass and passkm should be close (+/- 5%) to the sum of quarterly value declared in table E2 and close (+/- 10%) to the sum of annual values declared in tables C3 and D1 for the previous year

External consistency checks W 'I1-12-CW:No record in C3;''I1-12-CW:Pass I1=[PassI1_val] Pass C3=[PassC3_val];''I1-12-CW:Pass C3=[PassC3_val] Pass I1=[PassI1_val];''I1-12-CW:Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val] Passkm C3=[PasskmC3_val];''I1-12-CW:Passkm C3=[PasskmC3_val] Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val];'


'I1-12-CW:No record in D1;''I1-12-CW:Pass I1=[PassI1_val] Pass D1=[PassD1_val];''I1-12-CW:Pass D1=[PassD1_val] Pass I1=[PassI1_val];''I1-12-CW:Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val] Passkm D1=[PasskmD1_val];''I1-12-CW:Passkm D1=[PasskmD1_val] Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val];''I1-12-CW:No record in E2;''I1-12-CW:Pass I1=[PassI1_val] Pass E2=[PassE2_val];''I1-12-CW:Pass E2=[PassE2_val] Pass I1=[PassI1_val];''I1-12-CW:Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val] Passkm E2=[PasskmE2_val];''I1-12-CW:Passkm E2=[PasskmE2_val] Passkm I1=[PasskmI1_val];'




13

An undertaking has been declared as included in detailed (or simplified) data provisions (field 11 or field 12 declared with '1') but there is neither international nor national freight transport activity marked for the undertaking (fields 7 and 8 declared with '0')

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-13-CE:DSETA = 1 and INTFRET = 0 and NATFRET = 0;'

14

If passenger transport activity is marked for one undertaking either annual passenger data is reported with Annex C (detailed reporting) or is reported with Annex D (simplified reporting).

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-14-CE:INTPASS = 1 and DSETC = 0 and DSETD = 0;'

15

Only one of DsetA and DsetB can be set to 1 (YES) because either annual freight data is reported with Annex A (detailed reporting) or is reported with Annex B (simplified reporting).

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-15-CE:DSETB = 1 and DSETA = 1;'

16

An undertaking has been declared as included in detailed (or simplified) data provisions (field 11 or field 12 declared with '1') but there is neither international nor national freight transport activity marked for the undertaking (fields 7 and 8 declared with '0').

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-16-CE:DSETB = 1 and INTFRET = 0 and NATFRET = 0;'

17

Quarterly statistics should not be provided for freight undertakings under simplified reporting (total annual volume of goods transport is less than 500 million tonne-km) but are mandatory for freight undertakings under detailed reporting (total annual volume of goods transport is equal to or more than 500 million tonne-km); In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please make sure whether or not the freight undertaking has to be included in the quarterly freight data provisions reported through Annex E with Table E1.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-17-CW:DSETB = 1 and DSETE = 1;'

18

Only one of DsetC and DsetD can be set to 1 for one undertaking because either annual passenger data is reported with Annex C (detailed reporting) or is reported with Annex D (simplified reporting).

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-18-CE:DSETC = 1 and DSETD = 1;'

19

An undertaking has been declared as included in detailed (or simplified) data provisions (field 13 or field 14 declared with '1') but there is neither international nor national passenger transport activity marked for the undertaking (fields 9 and 10 declared with '0').

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-19-CE:DSETC = 1 and INTPASS = 0 and NATPASS = 0;'

20 Quarterly statistics should not be provided for passenger undertakings under simplified reporting (total annual volume of passenger

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-20-CE:DSETD = 1 and DSETE = 1;'




transport is less than 200 million passenger-km) but are mandatory for passenger undertakings under detailed reporting (total annual volume of passenger transport is equal to or more than 200 million passenger-km); In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please make sure whether or not the passenger undertaking has to be included in the quarterly freight data provisions reported through Annex E with Table E2.




21

An undertaking has been declared as included in detailed (or simplified) data provisions (field 13 or field 14 declared with '1') but there is neither international nor national passenger transport activity marked for the undertaking (fields 9 and 10 declared with '0').

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-21-CE:DSETD = 1 and INTPASS = 0 and NATPASS = 0;'

22

In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please make sure that if DsetA is marked 1 for YES and it is an undertaking under detailed reporting (total annual volume of goods transport is equal to or more than 500 million tonne-km) then DsetE should be marked 1 for YES. Make sure that Table E1 of Annex E is reported and includes this undertaking.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-22-CW:TKM is null or greater than 499999 and DSETA = 1 and DSETE = 0;'

23

You have set DsetB and DsetE flags to 1. As the optional TKM field is empty it is unclear whether this is a small undertaking (total annual volume of goods transport is < 500 million tonne-km) or a big undertaking (total annual volume of goods transport is >= 500 million tonne-km); In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please verify whether the undertaking is under detailed reporting or under simplified reporting and correct your flag settings accordingly DsetB = 1 or DsetA and DsetE = 1.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-23-CW:TKM is null and DSETB = 1 and DSETE = 1;'

24

You have set the DsetB flag to 1 for simplified reporting. But the TKM value you incidated is >= 500.000 which is the threshold for detailed reporting. With this TKM value the DsetA flag should have been set to 1. Please review the reporting of your Annual Freight data.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-24-CE:TKM is greater than 499999 and DSETB = 1;'

25

If freight transport activity is marked for one undertaking either annual freight data is reported with Annex A (detailed reporting) or is reported with Annex B (simplified reporting)).

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-25-CE:NATFRET = 1 and DSETA = 0 and DSETB = 0;'

26

Error in the DsetF flag setting. Annex F data does not have to be reported (DsetF=0) for the indicated Year if the DsetB flag = 1 or the DsetD flag = 1.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-26-CE:DSETF = 1 and (DSETB or DSETD) = 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

27

Error in the DsetF flag setting. Annex F data has to be reported (DsetF=1) for the indicated Year if the DsetA flag = 1 or the DsetC flag = 1.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-27-CE:DSETF = 0 and (DSETA or DSETC) = 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

28 Error in the DsetF flag setting. Annex F data has to be reported (DsetF=1) for the indicated

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-28-CW:INTFRET = 0 and NATFRET = 0 and INTPASS = 0 and NATPASS = 0 and DSETG = 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'




Year if the DsetA flag = 1 or the DsetC flag = 1.




29

Warning for the DsetG flag setting. Annex G data may have to be reported for the indicated Year; Please check the services provided on your countries network by this undertaking.

Internal consistency checks W'I1-29-CW:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS, NATPASS, DSETA, DSETB, DSETC or DSETD are set to 1 and DSETG = 0 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

30 As the DsetG flag is set to 1 the optional G3 Table has to be provided. Internal consistency checks W

'I1-30-CW:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS and NATPASS are set to 0 and DSETG and DSETH are set to 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

31 Make sure that you do not intend to report the optional G3 Table. Internal consistency checks W 'I1-31-CW:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS, NATPASS and DSETG are

set to 0 and DSETH is set to 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

32

If one of the IntFret NatFret IntPass NatPass flags is set to 1 announcing that there is Freight and/or Passenger traffic reported the DsetH flag has to be set to 1.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-32-CE:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS or NATPASS are set to 1 and DSETH = 0;'

33

As only the DsetH flag is set to 1 and the flags IntFret NatFret IntPass NatPass are all set to 0 make sure that these flags are set correctly or that the undertaking reported is an infrastructure manager.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-33-CW:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS and NATPASS are set to 0 and DSETH = 1;'

34Error in the DsetF flag setting. Annex F data does not have to be reported for the indicated Year.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-34-CE:DSETF = 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

35Error in the DsetG flag setting. Annex G data does not have to be reported for the indicated Year.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-35-CE:DSETG = 1 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

36

In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please check why all Dset flags are set to 0 - Unless it is a railway undertaking not operating on the network but providing additional transport related services.

Internal consistency checks W'I1-36-CW:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS, NATPASS, DSETA, DSETB, DSETC, DSETD, DSETE, DSETF, DSETG and DSETH are set to 0 and YEAR can not be devided by 5;'

37


Internal consistency checks E 'I1-37-CE:RCOUNT = CS and YEAR is not between 2004 and 2006;'

38


Internal consistency checks E 'I1-38-CE:RCOUNT = RS or ME and YEAR < 2007;'

39


Internal consistency checks E 'I1-39-CE:COUNTID = CS and YEAR is not between 2004 and 2006;'




40


Internal consistency checks E 'I1-40-CE:COUNTID = RS or ME and YEAR < 2007;'

41

In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please make sure that at least one activity should be marked for the undertaking - unless the undertaking is concerned exclusively with a transit activity or it is a rail infrastructure manager.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-41-CW:INTFRET, NATFRET, INTPASS and NATPASS are set to 0;'

42

International and/or national freight transport activity has been declared for un undertaking (field 7 or field 8 declared with '1') so the undertaking is subject either to detailed or simplified data provision - field 11 or field 12 should be declared with '1' for the undertaking.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-42-CE:INTFRET = 1 and DSETA and DSETB are set to 0;'WHERE [INTFRET]= '1'

43

International and/or national passenger transport activity has been declared for un undertaking (field 9 or 10 declared with '1') so the undertaking is subject either to detailed or simplified data provision -- field 13 or field 14 should be declared with '1' for the undertaking.

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-43-CE:NATPASS = 1 and DSETC and DSETD are set to 0;'WHERE [NATPASS]= '1'

44 Wrong code last 3 characters should by a number greater or equal 1. Internal consistency checks E 'I1-44-CE:Wrong UCODE, last 3 characters should be a number greater

or equal 1;'

45 Wrong code last 3 characters should by a number greater than 999. Internal consistency checks E 'I1-45-CE:Wrong UCODE, last 3 characters should be a number smaller

or equal 999;'

46

In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please make sure that if DsetC is marked 1 for YES and it is an undertaking under detailed reporting (total annual volume of passenger transport is equal to or more than 200 million passenger-km) then DsetE should be marked 1 for YES. Make sure that Table E2 of Annex E is reported and includes this undertaking.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-46-CW:PASSKM is null or greater than 199999 and DSETC = 1 and DSETD = 0;'

47You have set DsetB and DsetE flags to 1. As the optional PASSKM field is empty it is unclear whether this is a small undertaking (total annual volume of goods transport is < 200 million passenger-km) or a big undertaking (total annual volume of goods transport is >= 200 million passenger-km); In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please verify whether the

Internal consistency checks E 'I1-47-CW:PASSKM is greater than 199999 and DSETD = 1;'




undertaking is under detailed reporting or under simplified reporting and correct your flag settings accordingly DsetD = 1 or DsetC and DsetE = 1.

48

You have set DsetD and DsetE flags to 1. As the optional PASSKM field is empty it is unclear whether this is a small undertaking (total annual volume of goods transport is < 200 million passenger-km) or a big undertaking (total annual volume of goods transport is >= 200 million passenger-km); In order to help you guarantee the necessary quality of your data please verify whether the undertaking is under detailed reporting or under simplified reporting and correct your flag settings accordingly DsetD = 1 or DsetC and DsetE = 1.

Internal consistency checks W 'I1-48-CW:PASSKM is null and DSETD = 1 and DSETE = 1;'


'I1-EM-EE:Detail-Error margin not defined TONNES;''I1-EM-EE:TON old=[prev.tonnes_val] new=[today.tonnes_val];''I1-EM-EE:TON old=[prev.tonnes_val]new=[today.tonnes_val];''I1-EM-EW:TON old=[prev.tonnes_val] new=[today.tonnes_val];''I1-EM-EW:TON old=[prev.tonnes_val] new=[today.tonnes_val];''I1-EM-EE:Detail-Error margin not defined TKM;''I1-EM-EE:TKM old=[prev.tkm_val] new=[today.tkm_val];''I1-EM-EE:TKM old=[prev.tkm_val] new=[today.tkm_val];''I1-EM-EW:TKM old=[prev.tkm_val] new=[today.tkm_val];''I1-EM-EW:TKM old=[prev.tkm_val] new=[today.tkm_val];''I1-EM-EE:Detail-Error margin not defined PASS;''I1-EM-EE:PASS old=[prev.pass_val] new=[today.pass_val];''I1-EM-EE:PASS old=[prev.pass_val] new=[today.pass_val];''I1-EM-EW:PASS old=[prev.pass_val] new=[today.pass_val];''I1-EM-EW:PASS old=[prev.pass_val] new=[today.pass_val];''I1-EM-EE:Detail-Error margin not defined PASSKM;''I1-EM-EE:PASSKM old=[prev.passkm_val] new=[today.passkm_val];''I1-EM-EE:PASSKM old=[prev.passkm_val] new=[today.passkm_val];''I1-EM-EW:PASSKM old=[prev.passkm_val] new=[today.passkm_val];''I1-EM-EW:PASSKM old=[prev.passkm_val] new=[today.passkm_val];'





PART B

Rules for transmission of data to Eurostat


PART B - Table of contents

Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission............................................................................................18111.0 General presentation of eDAMIS......................................................................................................18211.1 eDAMIS Help Centre........................................................................................................................ 18311.2 Field separator.................................................................................................................................. 18411.3 Naming of data files.......................................................................................................................... 18411.4 Preparation of dataset and transmission data...................................................................................18411.5 Deadline for transmission of data......................................................................................................188

Chapter 12: Validation of data..................................................................................................................... 18912.0 The PERAIL production process.......................................................................................................19012.1 The data validation............................................................................................................................ 19012.2 Data processing for dissemination....................................................................................................192



Part B: Rules for transmission of data to EurostatChapter 11: Structure and data transmission

Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission




Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission

11.0 General presentation of eDAMIS

eDAMIS (electronic Data files Administration and Management Information System) offers standard solutions for collecting data files in the European Statistical System. eDAMIS implements the Single Entry Point policy of Eurostat.

Its usage is simple: the tool can be either installed on the PC of the National Statistical Institute or the web application can be used (no installation is needed on the user’s PC in this last case). The two methods of usage of the tool are detailed in the following diagrams.

Method 1: eDAMIS Web Application (eWA)(Local installation in NSI)




Method 2: eDAMIS Web Portal (eWP)

The eDAMIS application environment also has the following characteristics:1 It provides adapted solutions to several needs and users profiles (National Statistical Institutes as

well as other organisations)2 It facilitates fully automated data transmissions3 It guaranties secure transmissions

It offers value added services such as traffic monitoring, acknowledgements, reminders …

11.1 eDAMIS Help Centre

The eDAMIS Help Centre provides useful information for the eDAMIS users. The Help Centre is accessible from the following link:

http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/index.htm

For any support, the following e-mail address can be used: [email protected] A screenshot of the “Overview/General presentation” section is presented below.




http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/index.htm

Part B: Rules for transmission of data to EurostatChapter 11: Structure and data transmission11.2 Field separator

The data have to be prepared in flat files (*.CSV) with variable-length fields. The separator field will be the semi-colon‘;’.

In order to load the data files into the database at Eurostat, all fields must be present even if they are empty (i.e. two successive separators). In some cases, Eurostat proposes codes for missing data values or unusual situations in relation to specific fields to facilitate validation of the files.

11.3 Naming of data files

Managing data transmission is not only a technical issue. Before all, it is a matter of good organisation to make possible an effective cooperation between the parties involved: senders, receivers and applications. The basis of this organisation is the monitoring of "Who is sending What to Whom" and the very first step is a clear identification of the datasets to send.

The eDAMIS Dataset Naming Convention (DSNC) should be strictly applied. For each data transmission, it is very important to clearly identify the datasets to be sent in accordance with the DSNC. For further information, the document “GEN-Dataset Naming Convention” can be consulted on CIRCABC using the following link:

http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/dsis/edamis/library?l=/reference_documents/edamis/

Convention for transmission of revised data

Revised datasets provided by the countries are imported by Eurostat in the production database according to the following process:

Eurostat receives data revisions from the participating countries All the figures already stored in the production database for the given dataset and the

corresponding period are deleted The revised figures are imported in the production database.

This process has for consequence that the countries should provide full updated datasets when revising data, based on the first dataset transmitted, and not only the records to be revised.

11.4 Preparation of dataset and transmission data

11.4.1 Actors of Data Transmission

At the heart of the European Statistical System (ESS) is the Statistical Programme Committee (SPC), which is chaired by Eurostat and brings together the heads of Member States’ National Statistical Institutes (NSI). SPC discusses the most important joint actions and programmes to be carried out to meet EU information requirements. It agrees a five-year programme, which is implemented by the national authorities and monitored by the Production Units of Eurostat.



http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/dsis/edamis/library?l=/reference_documents/edamis/

http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/dsis/edamis/library?l=/reference_documents/edamis/dataset_convention/_EN_1.0_&a=d


For each Statistical Domain, the National Statistical Institutes (or other Competent National Authorities) deliver Datasets to Eurostat. Tools and methods for Data Transmission are discussed within Working Groups under the control of the Domain Manager.

In each National Statistical Institute, a Local Coordinator facilitates and coordinates the exchanges of data with Eurostat. In Eurostat, a Central Coordinator and a service of Helpdesk and Support monitor the Data Transmission and provide assistance to all the actors involved.

eDAMIS Help Centre reference webpage http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/overview/actors.htm

11.4.2 Setting up Data Transmission

To set up a new data transmission to Eurostat, the following steps must be performed by Eurostat production units:



http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/overview/actors.htm

Part B: Rules for transmission of data to EurostatChapter 11: Structure and data transmission New Datasets belonging to existing or new Domains must be registered in the eDAMIS datasets

inventory. This is done by or under the responsibility of the production unit at Eurostat. The information required to register new Domains/Datasets is collected via the Domain Registration Form. The new datasets must respect the Dataset Naming Convention.

Data Providers must be identified. A list must be made containing for each country and, if necessary, for each dataset, details of the organisation/company and name and e-mail address of the sender. The availability of transmission tools must be checked in the sending organisations.

The modality of Data Delivery must be specified: expected file format, expected transmission format, delivery space in Eurostat, notifications, etc…

To set up a new data transmission, the responsible production unit at Eurostat is invited to contact as soon as possible the eDAMIS Support Team that will facilitate and coordinate the required actions.

[email protected]

eDAMIS Help Centre reference webpagehttp://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/settingup.htm (this link allows the users to download the Domain Registration Form in pdf or Word format) http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/confident.htm (security of eDAMIS transmissions)

11.4.3 Domain and Dataset management

The basis of all data transmissions is the eDAMIS dataset inventory. This inventory contains information about domains and related datasets. This information is maintained by a Eurostat domain manager or a domain co-responsible.

To maintain a domain and related datasets do the following:1) Login to the eDAMIS Web Portal2) Select in the main menu bar the "Inventory" menu

The submenu that appears now has the following menu options: Domains management: allows a domain manager to maintain information related to a domain. Datasets Management: allows a domain manager to maintain information related to a dataset. Links Datasets and Countries Management: allows defining the country and the organisation in the

country which should send data for the defined dataset.



http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/confident.htm

http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/settingup.htm

Part B: Rules for transmission of data to EurostatChapter 11: Structure and data transmissionThe current eDAMIS dataset inventory and a set of reports can be consulted via the eDAMIS Web Portal. All reports can be downloaded in CSV format by clicking on the small icon in the upper left corner of the screen represented by a diskette and having an accompanied text that states "CSV".

Each dataset is identified by a unique dataset identification (dataset id). The generation of a dataset id is based on the eDAMIS Naming Convention. The eDAMIS Naming Convention ensures that a standardised naming is used when dataset occurrences are being sent to the Single Entry Point and delivered to Eurostat production units. The eDAMIS Naming Convention facilitates the automation of the transmission and importation of data files.

eDAMIS Help Centre reference webpagehttp://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/domdataset.htm

11.4.4 List of Local coordinators

The list of local coordinators can be accessed on Circa via the following link:

http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/dsis/edamis/library?l=/reference_documents/general_information/2005-07-05-list-of-lcspd/_EN_1.0_&a=d

eDAMIS Help Centre reference webpageThis link is also available from eDAMIS in the “Contacts/Local coordinators” section.





http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/domdataset.htm


11.5 Deadline for transmission of data

According to the Council and Parliament Regulation (available in annex), the deadline for the transmission of data depends on the dataset.

Annex Deadline for transmission of dataA 5 months after the end of the reference periodB 5 months after the end of the reference periodC 8 months after the end of the reference period for tables C1, C2, C5

14 months after the end of the reference period for tables C3, C4D 8 months after the end of the reference period E 3 months after the end of the reference period F 12 months after the end of the reference period G 18 months after the end of the reference period H 5 months after the end of the reference period I 5 months after the end of the reference period



Part B: Rules for transmission of data to EurostatChapter 12: Validation of data

Chapter 12: Validation of data




Chapter 12: Validation of data

12.0 The PERAIL production process

Data concerning the carriage of goods and passengers as well as railway accidents have to be collected according to the Regulation 91/2003. The data records for each quarter, year or five-year period, which are to be sent to Eurostat, have to follow the 9 Annexes of the Regulation. In other words, one dataset (one flat file) per annex of Regulation No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on rail transport statistics has to be provided. Hence, a full reporting according to the Regulation results in the transmission of different flat files as follows:

Frequency Number of files One file by the following annexes Each year since 2004 10 A, B, C, D, E-Q1, E-Q2, E-Q3, E-Q4, H, IEvery five years since 2005 12 A, B, C, D, E-Q1, E-Q2, E-Q3, E-Q4, F, G, H, I

12.1 The data validation

Data received by Eurostat are validated before they can go into production. The validation steps are detailed in the following sections of this chapter.

General information on first level validations and code lists is available on eDAMIS Help Centre:http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/validcodes.htm

12.1.1 Data validation within the Member States (code lists)



http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/edamis/info/data/website/practice/validcodes.htm


For each data transmission, Member States should ensure that all the codes provided in the various datasets belong to the code lists defined by Eurostat.

The code lists defined for all the dimensions to be transmitted to Eurostat in the frame of the rail transport data collection are available on CIRCABC.

These lists, available separately for each dimension, should be the reference for the participating countries as regards data transmission.

12.1.2 Data validation within Eurostat

Validation rules

First level validation rules

All the datasets provided by the participating countries are checked by Eurostat as regards the codes provided (see 12.1.1) and the coherence of the data provided.

The coherence of the data is checked by applying a large set of validation rules allowing to detect discrepancies within and between the various datasets.

The list of the first level validation rules applied for each dataset is available on CIRCABC.




Second level validation rules

These validation rules are based on the "Validation of data" description table for each table of the different Annexes. The Error margins hereafter are only one type of error that will be reported.

Error margins

Another kind of checks is performed by Eurostat on the data provided by the participating countries: the aim of this check is to ensure that the evolution of the transport values reported are rational.

Error margins allow to detect important/extraordinary positive or negative absolute deviations between two consecutive years in order to verify with the concerned country the credibility of the records out of margin.

It appeared relevant to determine new thresholds for each table, taking into consideration the importance of the values as well as the unit into which figures are expressed (see page 24 and following).

12.2 Data processing for dissemination

Validated data in Eurostat's production database PERAIL are disseminated in Eurostat Dissemination Database (see chapters 14 & 15 for detailed information). Generic scripts were configured for data extraction and calculation of aggregates and they are producing flat files to be loaded in Eurostat Dissemination Database. The validation of the structure and the contents of these flat files is done manually (visual data validation) as well as the addition of flags (e.g. "~e" for estimate ). Then, flat files are sent to the Dissemination Database team by e-mail.




PART C

Dissemination of data by Eurostat




PART C - Table of contents

Dissemination of data by Eurostat

Chapter 13: Processing of confidentiality in data dissemination............................................................195Chapter 14: Tables for dissemination.........................................................................................................197

14.0 Tables from the Council Directive until 2002.....................................................................................19914.1 Tables from the Directive until 2002 and the Regulation since 2003................................................19914.2 Tables from the Common Questionnaire until 2002 and the Regulation since 2003.........................20014.3 Tables from the Regulation from 2003 onwards...............................................................................200

Chapter 15: Eurostat Dissemination Database Classification plan.........................................................201



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 13: Processing of confidentiality in data dissemination

Chapter 13: Processing of confidential data in dissemination



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 13: Processing of confidentiality in data dissemination

Chapter 13: Processing of confidential data in dissemination

The data collected according to Regulation 91/2003 are published in Eurostat Dissemination Database. Under Article 7 of the Regulation, data deemed to be confidential may be disclosed only if:

the data are already available to the public in the Member States; or the explicit approval for such disclosure has been given in advance by the undertakings

concerned.

In this context, and in view of the characteristics of the European railway market, only data specified in Annexes A to H, specified by Member States as not confidential, are disseminated (see definition on pages 17-18), Annex I having been specified as confidential.



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 14: Tables for dissemination

Chapter 14: Tables for dissemination




Chapter 14: Tables for disseminationStatistics on the transport of goods and passenger by rail as well as railway accident statistics are published in Eurostat Dissemination Database under Theme 7 – Transport, Domain: Railway transport. With the new Regulation in place, the time series of statistics on goods transport collected under the Directive can no longer be updated21. The entry into force of Regulation No 91/2003 has meant restructuring Eurostat Dissemination Database and designing new dissemination tables.

The following table shows the Eurostat Dissemination Database tables in which data from the Annexes of the Regulation n°91/2003 are disseminated.

Regulation table Label of the Eurostat Dissemination Database table

Path in Eurostat Dissemination DatabaseTransport\Railway transport\...

A1-B1 Railway transport - Goods transported, by type of transport (1000t, million tkm) Railway transport measurement - goods

A2

Railway transport – Goods transported, by group of goods – until 2007 based on NST/R (1000t, million tkm)Railway transport – Goods transported, by group of goods – as from 2008 based on NST 2007 (1000t, million tkm)

Railway transport measurement - goods

A3

International annual railway transport by link with loading country and by group of goods (1000 T, Mio Tkm)International annual railway transport by link with unloading country and by group of goods (1000 T, Mio Tkm) Railway transport – Annual railway transit transport by group of goods (Directive 80/1177/EEC) (1000t, million tkm)

Railway transport measurement - goods

A4 Annual railway transport of dangerous goods Railway transport measurement - goodsA5 Annual railway transport of goods by type of consignment Railway transport measurement - goodsA6 Railway transport - Goods transported in intermodal transport units Railway transport measurement - goods

A7-A8 Railway transport - Number of empty and loaded intermodal transport units carried Railway transport measurement - goods

A9-B2C5-D2 Train movements Railway traffic

C1-C3-D1

Railway passenger transport by type of transport (national/international) (in 1000 passengers)Railway passenger transport by type of transport (national/international) (in Mio pkm)

Railway transport measurement - passengers

C2-C4

International railway passenger transport from the reporting country to the country of disembarkation (in 1000 passengers)International railway passenger transport from the country of embarkation to the reporting country (in 1000 passengers)

Railway transport measurement - passengers

E1 Railway transport – Goods transported, quarterly data (1000t, million tkm) Railway transport measurement - goodsE2 Railway transport - Quarterly Passengers transported Railway transport measurement - passengers

F1-F2 Annual national and international railway goods transport by region of loading and region of unloading (NUTS 2) Railway transport measurement - goods

F3-F4 Annual national and international railway passenger transport by region of embarkation and region of disembarkation Railway transport measurement - passengers

G1-G2-G3 Traffic flow of trains on the rail network (number of trains, 2005 data) Railway trafficH1 Railway transport – Annual number of accidents by type of accident Railway transport - Accidents

H2 Railway transport – Annual number of accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods Railway transport - Accidents

H3-H4 Railway transport – Annual number of victims by type of accident Railway transport - Accidents

The paragraphs below show the tables currently disseminated and for which updating will be possible or not with data from Regulation. New tables of dissemination showing new data from the Regulation are described below.

21 Within the framework of the previous legal act, only statistics on transport of goods were collected.



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 14: Tables for dissemination14.0 Tables from the Council Directive until 2002

The tables listed here cannot be fully updated with data from the Regulation. International annual transport by link with loading country and by group of goods (1000 T, Million

tkm) (RAIL_GO_INTCMGN), as the data of the new Regulation do not indicate the group of goods in international rail freight transport.

International annual transport by link with unloading country and by group of goods (1000 T, Million tkm) (RAIL_GO_INTGONG), as the data of the new Regulation do not indicate the group of goods in international rail freight transport.

International monthly railway transport from the loading country to the reporting country (Directive 80/1177/EEC) (1000t) (rail_go_intld), because no monthly data in international transport are collected under the Regulation.

International monthly railway transport by link from the reporting country to the unloading country (Directive 80/1177/EEC) (1000t) (rail_go_intunld), because no monthly data in international transport are collected under the Regulation.

National annual railway transport by distance class and group of goods (Directive 80/1177/EEC) (1000t, million tkm) (rail_go_natdist), because neither distance group nor the group of goods is available in the new data collection.

National monthly railway transport (Directive 80/1177/EEC) (1000t) (rail_go_natmnth), as no monthly data are collected under the new Regulation.

Annual transit traffic by group of goods (1000 T, Million tkm) (RAIL_GO_TRSGGDS), because group of goods is not recorded for transit transport any more.

14.1 Tables from the Directive until 2002 and the Regulation since 2003

The following table shows that some of the old data series, based on the Directive 80/1177/EEC, can be continued after the arrival of the new data delivered under the Regulation (EC) 91/2003. This table shows the correspondence of the delivery table of the Directive and the Regulation.

Eurostat Dissemination Database tables Directive tables

Regulation tables

Year of referencefor Regulation

1. Railway transport - Goods transported, by type of transport (1000t, million tkm) 1A-1B A1 or B1 20032. Railway transport - Goods transported, by group of goods – until 2007 based on NST/R (1000t, million tkm) 1A-1B A2 20033. International annual railway transport by link with loading country and by group of goods (1000 T, Mio Tkm) 5A-6A A3 20034. International annual railway transport by link with unloading country and by group of goods (1000 T, Mio Tkm) 5A-6A A3 20035. Railway transport – Annual railway transit transport by group of goods (Directive 80/1177/EEC) (1000t, million tkm) 5B-6B A3 20036. Annual national and international railway goods transport by region of loading and region of unloading (NUTS 2) 3 F 20057. Annual national and international railway passenger transport by region of embarkation and region of disembarkation 3 F 2005



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 14: Tables for dissemination7. National, international and transit annual transport by container and road/rail (number, 1000 T) 1A-7 A6-A7 2004

8. Railway transport – Goods transported, quarterly data (1000t, million tkm) 8 E1 2004




14.2 Tables from the Common Questionnaire until 2002 and the Regulation since 2003

The following table shows that some of the old data series, based on the Common Questionnaire Eurostat/ECMT/UN, can be continued after the arrival of the new data delivered under the Regulation (EC) 91/2003.

Eurostat Dissemination Database tables Regulation tables

Year of referencefor Regulation

Number of victims by type of injury H3+H4 2004Number of victims by origin of accident H3+H4 2004Accidents by type of accident H1 2004Dangerous goods transport accidents H2 2004

14.3 Tables from the Regulation from 2003 onwards

The following text reflects the situation of the dissemination of the data delivered under the Regulation 91/2003 as of beginning of January 2006:

Currently, there are four tables in Eurostat Dissemination Database that were created for the new Regulation data:

o RAIL_GO_TYPEALL has annual aggregate data on tonnes and tonne-km in national, international and transit goods transport by reporting country. This table will be updated backwards with time series data coming from the old Directive;

o RAIL_GO_GRPGOOD has annual aggregate data on tonnes and tonne-km by reporting country and group of goods. A new table was created as the new data do not allow the breakdown by both the category of goods and the type of transport. This table was also updated backwards with time series data coming from the old Directive;

o RAIL_GO_QUARTAL has quarterly data on goods on tonnes and tonne-km by reporting country. This table can possibly be completed with monthly freight data, delivered under the Directive;

o RAIL_PA_QUARTAL has quarterly data on passengers on tonnes and tonne-km by reporting country.

The table on international rail freight can also be updated with the new Regulation data, even if the category of goods is not present anymore.

New tables will be created for the regional statistics on goods and freight transport (Annex F) and the statistics on traffic flows on the rail network (Annex G).




Chapter 15: Eurostat Dissemination Database Classification plan




Chapter 15: Eurostat Dissemination Database Classification plan Eurostat publishes statistics on the transport of goods and passengers as well as railway accidents according to the current Eurostat Dissemination Database structure. The statistics in Annexes A, B, C, D, E, F and G are published as part of the Passengers, goods, and traffic collections. Only goods collection contains tables of data collected under both the Directive and the Regulation. The statistics in Annex H are published in the collection "Railway transport Accidents" of the rail domain. The table heading clearly specifies the data source. Eurostat classifies the statistics within each collection according to the periodicity of the data collected. Both groups, ANNUAL for “annual data” and Q1Q4_MON for “quarterly and monthly data” are created in each collection. To be more precise, the tables of data collected under the Directive are maintained and reclassified according to the new structure.

The classification plan of Eurostat Dissemination Database is presented below for dissemination of tables for all the Annexes.

Rail_pa: Railway transport measurement - passengers (detailed data from Common questionnaire and Regulation from 1990 onwards)



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 14: Tables for disseminationRail_go: Railway transport measurement - goods (detailed data based on Directive 80/1177/EC or Regulation (EC) 91/2003)

Rail_ac: Railway transport - Accidents (detailed data from Common questionnaire and Regulation from 1990 onwards)



Part C: Dissemination of data by EurostatChapter 14: Tables for disseminationRail_tf: Railway traffic (detailed data from Common questionnaire and Regulation from 1990 onwards)



Alphabetic reference list of variables






This list gives, in alphabetical order, the indicators, the chapter and the page number where the definition of each variable and the codes to be used when submitting the data to Eurostat could be found.

Accident …………………………………………………………………………………. p. 147 Accident involving a level-crossing (Type of accident) …………………………….. p. 147 Accident involving the transport of dangerous goods………………………………. p. 153Accident releasing dangerous goods…………………………………………………. p. 154Accident to persons caused by rolling stock in motion (Type of accident) ………. p. 147 Attempted suicide………………….…………………………………………………… p. 147Category of persons……………………………………………………………………. p. 148Collision (Type of accident) …………………………………………………………… p. 147 Container (Type of transport Unit) …………………………………………………… p. 62Country of disembarkation…………………………………………………………….. p. 90Country of embarkation………………………………………………………………… p. 90Country of loading ……………………………………………………………………… p. 50Country of unloading …………………………………………………………………… p. 50Dangerous Goods………………………………………………………………………. p. 56Derailment (Type of accident) ………………………………………………………… p. 147Employees (Category of person) …………………………………………………….. p. 148Fire in rolling stock (Type of accident) ………………………………………………. p. 147 Flag of authorisation for dissemination of confidential data ………………………. p. 18Flag of confidentiality …………………………………………………………………... p. 17Full trainload (Type of consignment) …………………………………………………. p. 58Full wagonload (Type of consignment) ……………………………..……………….. p. 58Goods (type of) …………………………………………………………………………. p. 47Goods road motor vehicle (Type of transport Unit) ………………………………… p. 63Intermodal transport Unit………………………………………………………… p. 62International transport – incoming……..……………………………………………… p. 40International transport – outgoing………………..…………………………………… p. 39International transport – total……………………………….…………………………. p. 39Light rail ……………………………………………….…………………………........... p. 14Metro (also known as “subway”, “metropolitan railway” or “underground”) ……… p. 14National Authorities…………………………………………………………….……….. p. 14National transport……………………………………………………………………….. p. 38Network Segment……………………………………………………………………….. p. 136Passenger-km per rail………………………………………………………………….. p. 21Passengers (Category of person) ……………………………………………………. p. 148Passengers (Number of) ….…………………………………………………………… p. 20Period…………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 16Person seriously injured………………………………………………………………... p. 159Person killed……………………………………………………………………………... p. 156Rail passenger………………………………………………………………………….. p. 14Rail transport European Network…..…………………………………………………. p. 138Railway…………………………………………………………………………………… p. 14Railway undertaking…………………….……………………………………………… p. 14Railway vehicle……………………………………….………………………………… p. 14Region of loading/embarkation………………………….……………………………. p. 121Region of unloading/disembarkation……………………….………………………… p. 121Reporting country……………………………………………………………………….. p. 15Semi-trailer (Type of transport Unit) …………………………………………………. p. 63Serious injury accident……………………………………………………………….... p. 151




Significant accident…………………………………………………………………….. p. 151Suicide…………………………………………………………………………………… p. 147Swap body (Type of transport Unit) …………………………………………………. p. 62Table identification …………………………………………………………………….. p. 15TEU………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 67Tonne-km per rail (tkm) ……………………………………………………………...... p. 20Train……………………………………………………………………………………… p. 14Train movements (train-km)…………………………………………………………… p. 21Tram (streetcar) means ……………………………………………………………….. p. 14Transit transport………………………………………………………………………… p. 40Transport of goods by rail …………………………………………………………….. p. 14Transport of passengers by rail ………………………………………………………. p. 14Type of accident………………………………………………………………………… p. 147Type of consignment…………………………………………………………………… p. 58Type of transport.. ……………………………………………………………………… p. 38Type of transport Unit…………………………………………………………………... p. 62Weight (of goods) (Tonnes) …………………………………………………………… p. 19Year ……………………………………………………………………………………… p. 16



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