List of abbreviations
-A-
ABS Expansion line
AEG General Railways Act
AGV MOVE Mobility and Transport Services Association
AI Artificial Intelligence
AktG German Stock Corporation Act
AT Non-tariff employees
ATO Automatic train operation
-B-
bAV Company pension plan
BEV Federal Railway Fund
BGB German Civil Code
BilMoG German Accounting Law Modernization Act
BKartA Federal Cartel Office
BMDV Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
BMF Federal Ministry of Finance
BMI Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
BMWK Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection
BNetzA Federal Network Agency
BSWAG Federal Rail Infrastructure Extension Act
Bund Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany)
Buskm Bus kilometers
-C-
CCO Chief Compliance Officer
CDP Carbon Disclosure Project
CEF Connecting Europe Facility
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CER Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies
CIO Chief Information Officer
CISO Chief Information Security Officer
CMS Compliance management system
CO₂ Carbon dioxide
CO₂e CO₂ equivalent
CSA Credit Support Agreements
CSO Chief Sustainability Officer
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
CSRD Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
CSR-RUG CSR Directive Implementation Act
CTA Contractual Trust Arrangement
-D-
DAC Digital automatic coupling
DaS Rail diesel phase-out
DB AG Deutsche Bahn AG
DB E&C Deutsche Bahn Engineering&Consulting GmbH
DB Finance Deutsche Bahn Finance GmbH
DB Group Deutsche Bahn Group
DB IO Deutsche Bahn International Operations
DKS Stuttgart Digital Hub
DNSH Do No Significant Harm
DPV Digital production network
DSA Dynamic visual display
DSD Digital Rail for Germany
DSMS Data protection management system
DSTW Digital interlocking
-E-
EAV Profit and loss transfer agreement
EBA Federal Railway Authority
EBIT Earnings before interest and taxes
EBITDA Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
EC Eurocity
ECJ European Court of Justice
EDIP European Debt Issuance Program
EE Renewable energy
EEG Renewable Energy Sources Act
ENeuOG Rail Restructuring Act
EnWG Energy Industry Law
ERA European Union Agency for Railways
ERegG Railway Regulation Act
ERTMS European Rail Traffic Management System
ESG Environmental, Social, Governance
ESRS European Sustainability Reporting Standards
ESTW Electronic interlocking
ETCS European Train Control System
EU European Union
EVG Railway and Transport Workers’ Union
EVO Railway and Transport Ordinance
EWH Eisenbahn-Waisenhort
-F-
FCL Full container load
FS Italian state-owned railway
FTE Full-time equivalents
FüPoG II Second Act for the Equal Participation of Women and Men in Management Positions
-G-
GDL German Train Drivers’ Union
GDP Gross domestic product
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GHG Greenhouse gas
GRI Global Reporting Initiative
GVFG Municipal Transport Financing Act
GWh Gigawatt hour
-H-
Hbf. Central station
HGB German Commercial Code
HR Human Resources
HVO Hydrotreated vegetable oil
-I-
IC Intercity
ICE Intercity Express
ICS Internal control system
IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards
ILO International Labor Organization
IRIS Passenger information of the future
IROs Impacts, Risks and Opportunities
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IT Information technology
-K-
KBV Group employer/works council agreement
KonTraG Corporate Sector Supervision and Transparency Act
KPMG KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
KSP Climate protection program
KTF Climate and Transformation Fund
KV Combined transport
kWh Kilowatt hour
-L-
LKSG German Supply Chain Act
LTI Long-term incentive
LTIF Lost time injury frequency
Ltkm Weight-related ton kilometers
LuFV Performance and Financing Agreement
LV InfraGO InfraGO performance agreement
-M-
MaaS Mobility as a service
MAB Employee survey
MaRisk Appropriate Risk Control and Management Systems
MdB Member of the German Parliament
MitbestG German Co-Determination Act
MIV Motorized individual transport
MJ Megajoule
MWh Megawatt hour
-N-
NABU Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V.
NBS New construction line
NFS Non-financial statement
Nkm Commercial vehicle kilometers
No. Number
NOx Nitrogen oxide
NP Natural persons
NPM National Platform for the Future of Mobility
NS Dutch state-owned railway
-O-
ÖBB Austrian Federal Railways
OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
öNB Public mobile network operator
ÖPNV Local public transport
ÖSPV Public road passenger transport
OT Operational technology
-P-
Para. Paragraph
PCGK Federal Public Corporate Governance Code
PFA Plan approval section
Pkm Passenger kilometers
PKP Polish state-owned railway
PPA Power purchase agreements
-R-
RB Regional railway
RE Regional Express
RegG Regionalization Act
RESY Regional energy saving system
RI Passenger information
RIC Rail infrastructure company
RMS Risk management system
ROCE Return on capital employed
-S-
S. Sentence
SAF Sustainable aviation fuel
SBB Swiss Federal Railways
SBTi Science Based Targets initiative
SDGs Sustainable development goals
SGB Social Security Code
SGV Rail freight transport
SI Satisfaction index
SNCF French state-owned railway
SO₂ Sulfur dioxide
S&P S&P Global Ratings
SPFV Long-distance rail passenger transport
SPNV Regional rail passenger transport
SPV Rail passenger transport
STI Short-term incentive
Sts(in) Secretary of State
SWP Strategic workforce planning
-T-
t Tons
TCFD Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
TEE TransEuropExpress
TEN Trans European Networks
TEU Twenty-foot equivalent unit
tkm Ton kilometers
TOC Train operating company
TPS Train-path pricing system
Trkm Train-path kilometers
Tsd. Thousand
-U-
UBA German Environment Agency
Ubf. Transshipment station
UIC International Union of Railways
UNGC United Nations Global Compact
-V-
VDB Association of the Railway Industry
VDE German unification transport projects
VDV Association of German Transport Companies
-Z-
ZIB Railway Construction Initiative for the Future (Zukunftsinitiative Bahnbau)