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ERA Railway Terminology Collection

Last updated: 5 December 2025.

The ERA Railway Terminology Collection gathers terms and abbreviations that are contained in the EU legal framework for railway, technical documents produced by bodies which are engaged in the development of important evolution in the railway system and other relevant glossaries.

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ERA Railway Terminology Collection is a consultation tool, developed to support the sharing of information through the actors involved in running the Single European Railway Area (SERA). The responsibility for the correctness, completeness, accuracy, or reliability of the information in ERA RTC lays upon the authors of the definitions, as they derive from reference documents having their own preparation and approval flow. Users cannot call ERA liable for the use they make of the content. Please consider that when the collection is exported (.csv) and then printed or converted, it becomes uncontrolled.
Term	Context	Document Type	Origin document
Roll cage, roll container, roll pallet	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Roll on - roll off	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary on web
ROLL-ON-ROLL-OFF (RO-RO)	Freight	Glossary	Terminology on Combined Transport from Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE). Prepared by the UN/ECE, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and the European Commission (EC). UNITED NATIONS - New York and Geneva, 2001
Rollback - transaction rollback	International Standard	ISO	ISO/IEC 10026-1:1998(en) Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Distributed Transaction Processing — Part 1: OSI TP Model	Latest release
Roller Unit	Freight	ERA Technical Document	Codification of lines and wagons for combined transport and associated operational procedures Technical document : ERA/TD/2023-01/CCT - Version : 1.1 on 21 March 2023
Rolling highway	EU Policy	Glossary	Glossary for transport statistics - 5TH EDITION 2019
Rolling highway (RoLa)	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025
Rolling planning	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025
Rolling road	Freight	Glossary	Terminology on Combined Transport from Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE). Prepared by the UN/ECE, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and the European Commission (EC). UNITED NATIONS - New York and Geneva, 2001
Rolling stock	Interoperability	Directive	Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union (recast)
Rolling stock	EU Policy	Glossary	Eurostat Transport Glossary on web
Rolling stock	RNE Glossary	Glossary	RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025
Rolling stock	International Standard	ISO	ISO/DIS 22575(en) Railway applications — General terms and definitions
Rolling Stock (RS or RST)	Infrastructure	Glossary	European Rail Infrastructure Managers
Rolling stock equipment	International Standard	ISO	ISO/DIS 22575(en) Railway applications — General terms and definitions
Rolling stock in operation	Vehicles / VA	TSI	Commission Regulation (EU) No 1302/2014 of 18 November 2014 concerning a technical specification for interoperability relating to the rolling stock — locomotives and passenger rolling stock subsystem of the rail system in the European Union
Rolling-road wagon	Freight	Glossary	Terminology on Combined Transport from Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE). Prepared by the UN/ECE, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and the European Commission (EC). UNITED NATIONS - New York and Geneva, 2001
ROM	EU Policy	EU Technical Document	Technical document from the Publications Office of the European Union - ‘Style guide’ Coordination Interinstitutional Style Guide - version on 19.04.2022
Root	International Standard	ISO	ISO/IEC 10026-1:1998(en) Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Distributed Transaction Processing — Part 1: OSI TP Model	Latest release
Round trip journey	Telematics Applications for Passenger	Application Guide	TAP TSI Annex B.54 Indirect Fulfilment application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013

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