Statistical Terms Glossary

The following types of electric current are in use:
- AC
25 000 Volts, 50 Hz
15 000 Volts, 16 2 / 3 Hz
- DC
3 000 Volts
1 500 Volts
750 Volts
660 Volts
630 Volts

The main categories of employment being considered are: General administration including central and regional management staff (e.g. finance, legal, personnel etc.) and boards of directors; Operations and traffic; Traction and rolling stock; Permanent way development and maintenance.

The main categories of employment being considered are:
-- General administration Includes central and regional management staff (e.g. finance, legal, personnel etc.) and boards of directors. The management staff of specialist departments (operations and traffic, traction and rolling stock, ways and works) are excluded but are taken into account in the statistics specific to each of these services
-- Operations and traffic
Station staff, train crews (excluding locomotive crews) and associated central and regional offices. Includes tourism and advertising.
-- Traction and rolling stock
Locomotive crews, workshop, inspection staff and associated central and regional offices.
-- Way and works
Permanent way maintenance and supervision staff.
-- Other operation
Passenger and goods road services, shipping services, electric power plants, hotel staff etc..

Goods in transport may be classified according to type.

The categories of goods carried by inland waterways are those defined by the NST/R nomenclature (Standard Goods Nomenclature for Transport Statistics/revised -EUROSTAT) or CSTE nomenclature (Commodity Classification for Transport Statistics in Europe - UN/ECE).

The categories of goods carried by road are those defined by the NST/R nomenclature (Standard Goods Nomenclature for Transport Statistics/revised - EUROSTAT) or the CSTE nomenclature (Commodity Classification for Transport Statistics in Europe - UN/ECE).

The categories of goods carried by oil pipeline are those defined by the NST/R nomenclature (Standard Goods Nomenclature for Transport Statistics/revised - EUROSTAT) or CSTE nomenclature (Commodity Classification for Transport Statistics in Europe - UN/ECE).

In general, pipelines can be classified, depending on their main purpose, in the following three main categories:
- Gathering pipelines: group of smaller interconnected pipelines forming complex networks with the main purpose of bringing crude oil or natural gas from several nearby wells to a treatment plant or processing facility;
- Transportation pipelines (trunk pipelines): mainly long pipes with large diameters, moving products (oil, gas, refined products) between cities, countries and even continents; these transportation networks include several compressor stations in gas lines or pump stations for crude and multi-product pipelines;
- Distribution pipelines: composed of several interconnected pipelines with small diameters, used to take the products to the final consumer.

These vehicles may be classified according to the type of energy used by the motor, the main ones being:
-- Gasoline (petrol)
-- Diesel
-- Gas-powered
-- Electricity
-- Other

The main categories of railway transport are:
- Revenue earning transport: transport conveyed for an outside party against payment;
- Service transport: transport which the railway enterprise performs in order to meet its internal requirements whether or not such transport is revenue earning.

The main categories of revenues to be considered are:
-- Revenues from transport operations
-- Amounts received from the State or other public bodies
This category includes compensation receipts and other subsidies.
-- Other revenues
This category includes revenues not related to oil pipeline transport activities, e.g. financial revenues, etc.

The main categories of revenues to be considered are:
-- Revenues from transport operations
This category includes goods and passenger traffic revenues.-- Amounts received from the State or other public bodies
This category includes compensation receipts and other subsidies.
-- Other revenues
This category includes revenues not related to transport activities, e.g. financial revenues etc.

The main types of train are:
- Goods train: for the carriage of goods composed of one or more wagons and, possibly, vans moving either empty or under load;
- Passenger train: for the carriage of passengers composed of one or more passenger railway vehicles and, possibly, vans moving either empty or under load;
- Mixed train: composed of passenger railway vehicles and of wagons;
- Other trains: moving solely for the requirements of the railway enterprise, which involve no payments to third parties.

The main categories of train consignment are:
- Full train load: a consignment comprising a train with one or several wagon loads transported together for one consignor with no change in train composition from a single point of loading to a single point of unloading;
- Full wagon load: a consignment requiring the exclusive use of a wagon throughout its journey whether the full wagon loading capacity is utilized or not; wagons in a full train load are excluded;
- Smalls/small load: a consignment other than full train loads or full wagon loads.

The United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations. It is a five-character code where the first two characters are the ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 country code, followed by a blank and three-character code for the location name within the country (UNECE Recommendation 16), together with Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union) supplied codes for ports not yet included in the United Nations system.

The carriage of cargo in intermodal transport units such as containers or mobile (Ro-Ro) units. Transport in swap bodies is included.

The movement of an IWT freight vessel for which the gross-gross weight of goods carried, including that of equipment such as containers, swap bodies and pallets, is nil; as well as the movement of an IWT passenger vessel without passengers.
Note: The movement of an IWT vessel carrying empty equipment such as containers, swap bodies and pallets is not considered to be an unladen journey.

Sea traffic for which neither goods nor passengers are carried.

The weight of a vehicle (or combination of vehicles), excluding its load, when stationary and ready for the road, as determined by the competent authority of the country of registration.
Note: The unladen weight may include driver and fuel, dependent on national practice.

Road with a stabilized base not surfaced with crushed stone, hydrocarbon binder or bituminized agents, concrete or cobblestone.

A sea service other than a scheduled sea service.

Any movement of a seagoing vessel at sea.

A conventional line specially upgraded to allow traffic at speeds of the order of 200 km/h for the main segments.

Urban mobility: trips made by residents of an urban area, where both origin and destination are inside the same urban area.
Non-urban mobility: trips made by people living outside the urban area or where at least one endpoint is outside the urban area.

Area within the administrative boundary or a set of administrative boundaries of a core city (settlement).Urban areas may be classified by size according to number of inhabitants: (a) 10 000 to 49 999 – small; (b) 50 000 to 249 999 – medium; (c) 250 000 or more – large.

Transport carried out on inland waterways located within the boundaries of an urban area.

A scheduled inland waterways public transport service for commuter and other local traffic within an urban area, operating throughout the year.

An inland waterways transport vessel operating an urban inland waterway transport service.

Railway enterprise wholly operating urban, suburban or similar lines within the boundaries of one or more built-up areas.

A road within the boundaries of a built-up area, which is an area with entries and exits specially sign-posted as such.