1. Working Group Meeting on Rail Transport Statistics
Rail Safety Statistics
Item 14 on the agenda

2. Overview
Main aim:
Reduce Member States’ burden for reporting twice the same statistical data covered in EU Legal acts.
Take advantage of high-quality transport safety data collected by the European Commission´s specialised transport safety agencies
Publish by Eurostat transport safety data collected by the agencies, as also requested by other EU institutions (dissemination via Eurostat´s reference database).

3. Overview 5 transport modes are concerned:
Rail - taking advantage of detailed ERA data
Road – use detailed data available in the CARE database
Air – detailed data on accidents and accident victims from EASA
Maritime – exploit data stemming from EMCIP (European Marine Casualty Information Platform) maintained by EMSA
IWW – under development

4. Transport safety tables in EUROBASE
Transport safety data in the Eurobase tree

5. Rail - Background
The data available in Eurobase are part of ERA’s Common Safety Indicators (CSIs):
Provided annually by NSAs
Indicators relating to accident
Indicators relating to dangerous goods
Indicators relating to suicides and attempted suicides
Signed in 2012: Memorandum of Understanding between the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) and the European Railway Agency (ERA), regarding the technical cooperation in the field of Rail Transport Accidents Statistics

6. Rail safety tables in EUROBASE
Rail safety data in the Eurobase tree

7. Rail - Eurobase
Data collected by ERA are part of the so-called Common Safety Indicators (CSIs)
ESMS metadata available
4 tables are disseminated in Eurobase:
Rail accidents by type of accident (ERA data) (tran_sf_railac)
Rail accidents victims by type of accident (ERA data) (tran_sf_railvi)
Rail accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods (ERA data) (tran_sf_raildg)
Suicides involving railways (ERA data) (tran_sf_railsu)
Dissemination in Eurobase for data

8. Thank you for your attention