1. Railway Statistics at the UIC
UIC overview: missions, general objectives and specific topics
Statistics Group: governance, mission and key projects
Data collection process and calculation of indicators
Dissemination
Roman Štěrba
Chairman of Statistics group
Alice Favre
Head of Statistics
Eurostat/ WG Rail Transport Statistics / Luxembourg, September 9-10, 2019

2. UIC overview: missions, general objectives and specific topics
The International Union of Railways counts 200 members.
140 railway companies or associations of railway companies
other members are research institutes, engineering groups…
Active / Associate / Affiliate (non operators) members
EU-28
81 members of which
18 infrastructure managers
15 freight operators
14 passenger operators
8 freight + passenger operators
17 freight + passenger + infrastructure
Number of UIC members per country

3. UIC overview: missions, general objectives and specific topics
UIC missions:
provide technical and operational expertise and solutions,
encourage best practices to develop interoperability,
promotes rail sector interests and innovative development projects.

4. UIC overview: missions, general objectives and specific topics
Overall objectives for UIC
3 levels have been defined for international cooperation activities:
Strategic level
Coordination with and bet­ween the 6 UIC Regions steered by the UIC Regional Assemblies for Africa, Asia Pacific, North America, South America, Europe and Middle-East.
Technical/professional cooperation level
Passenger
Freight
Rail System incl. infrastructure, rolling stock, opera­tions and
Fundamental Values incl. cross-sector activities such as Sustainable Development, Research Coordination, Safety, Security, Expertise.
Support services level
Finance, HR, Legal, Communications and Institutional Relations incl. Statistics group.

5. UIC overview: missions, general objectives and specific topics
Vital points of the UIC action - Projects / Activities / Specific actions
5 areas
Freight
Heavy trains Long trains - Paperless documentation - Global Rail Freight Conference (GRFC) - Business Plans – Global Team of Experts (GTE) – Eco Rail Innovation (ERI) cooperation agreement with „Zero emissions“ vision by 2050
Signalling
Control command and signalling (CCS) Conference
Environment
CO2 reduction and rail transport communication - work with international environment entities
Safety / Security
Safety and Security Congresses and conferences - Level Crossing - Safety database and enquiries
Standardisation
Energy or GHG measures - Asset Management - Terminology (RailLexic)

6. Statistics Group: governance, missions and key projects
UIC Statistics Group (SG) - governance
Representatives of 100 railway companies
At least one statistics correspondent per railway company
SG Steering committee
Chairman: Roman Štěrba, SŽDC (CZ, IM)
14 collaborators from 10 railway companies (operators and infrastructure managers)+ CER (Community of European Railway)
SG Plenary meeting in November
Company
Country
Activity
BDZ Holding
Bulgaria
Passenger and freight operator
CFR
Romania
Infrastructure manager
CFR-MARFA
Freight operator
DB AG
Germany
Infrastructure manager, passenger and freight operator
FSI
Italy
PKP PLK
Poland
RZD
Russia
SBB CFF FFS
Switzerland
SNCF MOBILITES
France
SZDC
Czech Republic
Members of the Statistics Group Steering Committee

7. Statistics Group: governance, mission and key projects
UIC Statistics Group (SG) – Mission
to provide a high-quality statistical information service to UIC members, to the sector community and to other users of statistics
by means of
Railway statistical rules & terminology (IRS, RailLexic, explanatory notes)
Data collection
Statistics data of individual member companies
Benchmarking, KPIs (Indicators Reports)

8. Statistics Group: governance, mission and key projects
Key project actions
Improvement of RAILISA (Rail Information System and Analyses)
new filtering features and
new downloading functionalities
New IRS UIC railway statistics
Data collection: questionnaires, tables and variables
Submission of data and time limits
Data compilation and quality control
Electronic reports and access rights
Edition and availability of the International Railway Statistics yearbook
Appendix A - List of surveys, questionnaires and tables
Appendix B - Example of data record in the database

9. Statistics Group: governance, mission and key projects
Acquisition of data
Monthly traffic and train runs data +2 months
Yearly Key Performance Indicators April 2018
Annual International Railway Statistics 31 August 2018

10. Statistics Group: governance, mission and key projects
Publications
Quick information
Monthly/Quarterly statistics, half-year statistics (UIC members only)
Fast yearly statistics (KPIs)
printed Synopsis (Public)
Yearbook of UIC Statistics (electronic version) (UIC members only)
Indicators of performance (UIC members only)
RAILISA (UIC members and Public)
pre-defined reports
individual reports

11. Data collection process and calculation of indicators
4 questionnaires
Data collected via a web application
Monthly data :
Traffic: Passenger / Freight / Trains
Key Performance Indicators
provisional data - main parameters
Annual data
Network – Transport stock – Staff – Traffic –
Punctuality – Financial Results - Energy Consumption –
Accidents – High Speed >>> 34 tables –> 410 variables
5-yearly data: Network and Rolling stock
Tracks and installations
Purpose-built wagons
Age of powered, passenger and freight transport stock

12. Data collection process and calculation of indicators
Data verification
Automated Control for users: Absolute difference with the previous year above 10% = red signal
Automated report on large anomalies for administrator
Computation of indicators and temporal evolution
Comparison of data coming from other sources such as Eurostat, OECD - ITF (non systematic approach)

13. Data collection process and calculation of indicators
Improving data consistency for inter-comparison
RailLexic 5.0 is available online
RailLexic is UIC’s terminology database and the leading reference in the field of multilingual railway terminology.
The database contains ~ terms in 23 languages e.g Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish
Translations, variants of the term, subject fields and grammatical information.
Definitions for about terms

14. Data collection process and calculation of indicators
Definition of more than 150 terms for rail statistics in 3 languages EN, FR, DE

15. Indicators Data collection process and calculation of indicators
Freight performance per GDP ppp (t.km per million € GDP ppp)
Indicators
At national, regional and global levels (multiple data sources)
Traffic performance, financial indicators…
At company level

16. Dissemination
Online application Railisa: main tool for data dissemination
Two levels of access:
UIC members and Public
>>> 88% of “public” data
Data visibility

17. Dissemination Data queries Period from 1995 to 2018 11 domains
Data queries
Period from 1995 to 2018
11 domains
81 variables
5 regions
121 countries
271 railway companies
Domains

18. Dissemination
User guide and metadata
Download in .csv

19. Dissemination
New functionalities are coming soon
Infographics

20. Dissemination Publications UIC web site http://www.uic.org/
Publications