Statistics at theInternational Union of Railways

Alice Favre - Statistics Officefavre@uic.org

UIC - Presentation
The International Union of Railways counts 196 members.
>>> 145 are railway companies or associations of railway companies>>> Other members are administrations, research institutes…

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UIC – Statistics Group~ 100 railway companies participate to the statistics group
At least one statistics correspondent per company

Steering committee :Chairman: Roman Sterba SZDC (CZ)
17 collaborators from 10 railway companies+ CER (Communauté Européenne du Rail)
Meeting twice a year

Plenary meeting in November open to all our statistics correspondents.

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Data collection
4 online questionnaires
3 languages: English\French\GermanMonthly data : Traffic

KPIs: Provisional annual dataFinal annual data5-yearly data: Network and Rolling stock

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Data collection
Monthly data
Traffic: Passenger
FreightTrains

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Data collection
KPIs - provisional data
Network infrastructure
Rolling stock
Staff
Traffic (passenger, freight and trains)
Revenue per activity
High Speed Traffic (pkm billions)

Total of 40 variables collected

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Data collection
Annual data
Collected from Julyto September

33 tables – 410 variables

Network – Transport stock – Staff – Traffic – Punctuality –Financial Results – Energy – Accidents – High Speed
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Data collection
 5 yearly data 2015
200 variables collected (every five years)
CATEGORYTablesNETWORKTracks and Installations

Purpose-built wagons (for standard or broad gauge lines)
TRANSPORT STOCK

Age of powered stockAge of passenger transport stockAge of freight transport stock8

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Data verification•Automated Control for users: Absolute difference with the previous year above 10% = red signal•

Automated report on large anomalies for administrators•

Comparison of values coming from other sources such as ITF (non systematic approach)

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Data consistencyExplanatory notes and definitions>>> progressively aligned with the“Glossary for Transport Statistics”

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Contribution
Level of participation (number of companies)
Data 2016 – 3 collections

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Data Dissemination
Online consultation for UIC members
Quarterly and annual traffic data

From 2012 to 2017
Can be downloaded

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Data Dissemination

http://uic-stats-pp.uic.org/

Visibility of Data
17%

1%

PublicUIC Members
ConfidentialPublic version
82%

More than 80% of data are “public”
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Data Dissemination

45 variables are available so far
Additional parameters will be makeavailable

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Data Dissemination
Contact:
stat@uic.org

Download in .csv
Import with Excel for instance15

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Publication
Railway Statistics – Synopsis
KPIs- Provisional data

http://www.uic.org/
UIC Safety Report

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Railway Handbook:
Energy Consumption andCO2 emissions.
In collaboration with theInternational Energy Agency - OECD

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Projects

Improvement of online tools:- Railisa- Data collection >>> to make easier the data collection

Improvement of data quality

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Thanks for your attention!

Alice Favre - Statistics Officefavre@uic.org
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