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1. Indicators relating to accidents

1.1. Total and relative (to train-kilometres) number of serious accidents and a break-down for the following types of accidents:

— collision of train with rail vehicle,

— collision of train with obstacle within the clearance gauge,

— derailment of train,

— level crossing accident, including accident involving pedestrians at level crossing, and a further break-down for the five types of level crossings defined in point 6.2,

— accident to persons involving rolling stock in motion, with the exception of suicides and attempted suicides,

— fire in rolling stock,

— other. Each significant accident shall be reported under the type of the primary accident, even if the consequences of the secondary accident are more severe (e.g. a derailment followed by a fire).

1.2. Total and relative (to train-kilometres) number of persons seriously injured and killed by type of accident divided into the following categories:

— passenger (also relative to total passenger-kilometres and passenger train-kilometres),

— employee or contractor,

— level crossing user,

— trespasser,

— other person at a platform,

— other person not at a platform.

2. Indicators relating to dangerous goods

Total and relative (to train-kilometres) number of accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods by rail divided into the following categories:

— accident involving at least one railway vehicle transporting dangerous goods, as defined in the Appendix,

— number of such accidents in which dangerous goods are released.

3. Indicators relating to suicides Total and relative (to train-kilometres) number of suicides and attempted suicides 4. Indicators relating to precursors of accidents Total and relative (to train-kilometres) number of precursors to accidents and a break down on the following types of precursor:

— broken rail,

— track buckle and other track misalignment,

— wrong-side signalling failure,

— signal passed at danger when passing a danger point,

— signal passed at danger without passing a danger point,

— broken wheel on rolling stock in service,

— broken axle on rolling stock in service.

All precursors are to be reported, both those resulting and those not resulting in accidents. (A precursor resulting in a significant accident shall also be reported under indicators relating to precursors; a precursor not resulting in a significant accident shall only be reported under indicators relating to precursors).

5. Indicators to calculate the economic impact of accidents Total in euro and relative (to train-kilometres):

— number of deaths and serious injuries multiplied by the Value of Preventing a Casualty (VPC),

— cost of damages to environment,

— cost of material damages to rolling stock or infrastructure,

— cost of delays as a consequence of accidents. National safety authorities shall report the economic impact of significant accidents. The VPC is the value society attributes to the prevention of a casualty and as such shall not form a reference for compensation between parties involved in accidents.

6. Indicators relating to technical safety of infrastructure and its implementation

6.1. Percentage of tracks with Train Protection Systems (TPSs) in operation and percentage of train-kilometres using on-board TPSs, where these systems provide:

— warning,

— warning and automatic stop,

— warning and automatic stop and discrete supervision of speed,

— warning and automatic stop and continuous supervision of speed.

6.2. Number of level crossings (total, per line kilometre and track kilometre) by the following five types:

(a) passive level crossing (b) active level crossing:

(i) manual, (ii) automatic with user-side warning, (iii) automatic with user-side protection, (iv) rail-side protected. Appendix Common definitions for the CSIs and methods of calculating the economic impact of accidents 1. Indicators relating to accidents 1.1. ‘significant accident’ means any accident involving at least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least one killed or seriously injured person, or in significant damage to stock, track, other installations or environment, or extensive disruptions to traffic, excluding accidents in workshops, warehouses and depots;

1.2. ‘significant damage to stock, track, other installations or environment’ means damage that is equivalent to EUR 150 000 or more; 1.3. ‘extensive disruptions to traffic’ means that train services on a main railway line are suspended for six hours or more; 1.4. ‘train’ means one or more railway vehicles hauled by one or more locomotives or railcars, or one railcar travelling alone, running under a given number or specific designation from an initial fixed point to a terminal fixed point, including a light engine, i.e. a locomotive travelling on its own; 1.5. ‘collision of train with rail vehicle’ means a front to front, front to end or a side collision between a part of a train and a part of another train or rail vehicle, or with shunting rolling stock; 1.6. ‘collision of train with obstacle within the clearance gauge’ means a collision between a part of a train and objects fixed or temporarily present on or near the track (except at level crossings if lost by a crossing vehicle or user), including collision with overhead contact lines; 1.7. ‘derailment of train’ means any case in which at least one wheel of a train leaves the rails;

1.8. ‘level crossing accident’ means any accident at level crossings involving at least one railway vehicle and one or more crossing vehicles, other crossing users such as pedestrians or other objects temporarily present on or near the track if lost by a crossing vehicle or user; 1.9. ‘accident to persons involving rolling stock in motion’ means accidents to one or more persons who are either hit by a railway vehicle or by an object attached to, or that has become detached from, the vehicle, this includes persons who fall from railway vehicles as well as persons who fall or are hit by loose objects when travelling on board vehicles; 1.10. ‘fire in rolling stock’ means a fire or explosion that occurs in a railway vehicle (including its load) when it is running between the departure station and the destination, including when stopped at the departure station, the destination or intermediate stops, as well as during re-marshalling operations;

1.11. ‘other (accident)’ means any accident other than a collision of train with rail vehicle, collision of train with obstacle within the clearance gauge, derailment of train, level crossing accident, an accident to person involving rolling stock in motion or a fire in rolling stock; 1.12. ‘passenger’ means any person, excluding a member of the train crew, who makes a trip by rail, including a passenger trying to embark onto or disembark from a moving train for accident statistics only; 1.13. ‘employee or contractor’ means any person whose employment is in connection with a railway and is at work at the time of the accident, including the staff of contractors, self-employed contractors, the crew of the train and persons handling rolling stock and infrastructure installations; 1.14. ‘level crossing user’ means any person using a level crossing to cross the railway line by any means of transport or by foot; 1.15. ‘trespasser’ means any person present on railway premises where such presence is forbidden, with the exception of a level crossing user;

1.16. ‘other person at a platform’ means any person at a railway platform who is not defined as ‘passenger’, ‘employee or contractor’, ‘level crossing user’, ‘other person not at a platform’ or ‘trespasser’; 1.17. ‘other person not at a platform’ means any person not at a railway platform who is not defined as ‘passenger’, ‘employee or contractor’, ‘level crossing user’, ‘other person at a platform’ or ‘trespasser’; 1.18. ‘death (killed person)’ means any person killed immediately or dying within 30 days as a result of an accident, excluding any suicide; 1.19. ‘serious injury (seriously injured person)’ means any person injured who was hospitalised for more than 24 hours as a result of an accident, excluding any attempted suicide.

2. Indicators relating to dangerous goods 2.1. ‘accident involving the transport of dangerous goods’ means any accident or incident that is subject to reporting in accordance with RID ()/ADR section 1.8.5; 2.2. ‘dangerous goods’ means those substances and articles the carriage of which is prohibited by RID, or authorised only under the conditions prescribed therein.

3. Indicators relating to suicides

3.1. ‘suicide’ means an act to deliberately injure oneself resulting in death, as recorded and classified by the competent national authority; 3.2. ‘attempted suicide’ means an act to deliberately injure oneself resulting in serious injury.

4. Indicators relating to precursors of accidents 4.1. ‘broken rail’ means any rail which is separated in two or more pieces, or any rail from which a piece of metal becomes detached, causing a gap of more than 50 mm in length and more than 10 mm in depth on the running surface; 4.2. ‘track buckle or other track misalignment’ means any fault related to the continuum and the geometry of track, requiring track to be placed out of service or immediate restriction of permitted speed; 4.3. ‘wrong side signalling failure’ means any technical failure of a signalling system (either to infrastructure or to rolling stock), resulting in signalling information less restrictive than that demanded; 4.4. ‘Signal Passed at Danger when passing a danger point’ means any occasion when any part of a train proceeds beyond its authorised movement and travels beyond the danger point;