List of abbreviations

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)

Sustainability indices

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