Statistical Terms Glossary

Road outside the boundaries of a built-up area, with entries and exits sign-posted as such.

Any person who makes a journey by a road vehicle. Drivers of passenger cars, excluding taxi drivers, are counted as passengers. Service staff assigned to buses, motor coaches, trolleybuses, trams and goods road vehicles are not included as passengers.

A passenger alighting from a public transport road vehicle after having been conveyed by it.
Note: A passenger transfer from one vehicle directly to another one of the same type shall not be regarded as disembarkation/embarkation. Whenever during the transfer another mode of transport is used, this is to be regarded as disembarkation/embarkation.

A passenger alighting from a road vehicle after having been conveyed by it.

A passenger who boards a public transport road vehicle to be conveyed by it.
Note: A passenger transfer from one vehicle directly to another one of the same type shall not be regarded as disembarkation/embarkation. Whenever during the transfer another mode of transport is used, this is to be regarded as disembarkation/embarkation.

Passenger who boards a road vehicle to be conveyed by it.

Unit of measurement representing the transport of one passenger by road over one kilometre.

Road transport enterprise offering and performing services in the transport of one or more persons (passengers), not including the driver, and whose main activities in the field of road transport, according to value-added, is road passenger transport.

The combination of the place of embarkation and the place of disembarkation of passengers conveyed by road whichever itinerary is followed.

The combination between the place of embarkation and the place of disembarkation of passengers conveyed by a road vehicle.

The combination between the place of embarkation and the place of disembarkation of passengers conveyed by bus or tram.

Unit of measure representing the transport of one passenger by road over one kilometre.

A passenger alighting from a road vehicle after having been conveyed by it.

Passenger who boards a road vehicle to be conveyed by it.

A motor vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to haul other vehicles, which are not power-driven. Agricultural tractors are excluded.

Road motor vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to haul other road vehicles which are not power-driven (mainly semi-trailers). Agricultural tractors are excluded.

Any movement of a road vehicle on a given network.

An accident, which occurred as a result of the vehicle being in a state of motion and in which people were injured.

Traffic on roads inside built-up areas.

The movement of road vehicles within a national territory irrespective of the country in which these vehicles are registered.

Goods road motor vehicle coupled to a trailer

Road transport through a country between two places (a place of loading and a place of unloading) both located in another country or in other countries provided that the total journey within the country is by road and that there is no loading and unloading in that country.

Road transport through a country when the place of loading and the place of unloading are both located in another country or in other countries, provided that the whole journey within the country is by road and that there is no loading and unloading in that country.
Note: Road motor vehicles loaded/unloaded at the frontier of that country onto/from another mode of transport are included.

The movement of goods and/or passengers using a road vehicle on a given road network.
Note: When a road vehicle is being carried on another vehicle, only the movement of the carrying vehicle (active mode) is considered.

Enterprise carrying out in one or more places activities for the production of road transport services using road vehicles and whose main activities according to the value added is road transport.
In terms of activity classifications the following classes are involved:
-- ISIC/Rev.3:
Division 60, Group 602 - Other land transport;
Class 6021 - Other scheduled passenger land transport,
Class 6022 - Other non-scheduled passenger land transport;
Class 6023 - Freight transport by road;
-- NACE/Rev.1
Division 60, Group 602; Urban and road transport
Class 60.21- Scheduled passenger transport;
Class 60.22 - Taxi operation;
Class 60.23 - Other road passenger transport;
Class 60.24 - Freight transport by road.

A vehicle running on wheels and intended for use on roads.

A movement of a road vehicle from a specified point of origin to a specified point of destination.
Note: A journey can be divided into a number of sections or stages. For goods road vehicles, a journey can be unloaded or loaded. The loaded distance of the goods road vehicle journey is the distance between the first place of loading and the last place of unloading (where the goods road vehicle is completely emptied).

A movement of a road vehicle from a specified point of origin to a specified point of destination.

An estimated monetary value reflecting the current stock of physical road transport infrastructure assets.

Small, un-stackable, normally boxy unit on wheels intended to facilitate the loading and unloading of goods.