List of abbreviations

-A-

ABS Expansion line

AEG General Railways Act

AGG General Act on Equal Treatment

AGV MOVE Mobility and Transport Services Association

AI Artificial Intelligence

AktG German Stock Corporation Act

ATO Automatic train operation

-B-

bAV Company pension plan

bbl barrel

BEV Federal Railway Fund

BGB German Civil Code

BilMoG German Accounting Law Modernization Act

BKartA Federal Cartel Office

BMF Federal Ministry of Finance

BMV Federal Ministry of Transport

BNetzA Federal Network Agency

BSW Railway Social Work Foundation

BSWAG Federal Rail Infrastructure Extension Act

BUV Requirement implementation agreement

-C-

CCO Chief Compliance Officer

CDO Chief Digital 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

CoC BP Code of Conduct for Business Partners

CSA Credit support agreements

CSO Chief Sustainability Officer

CSP Corporate security platform

CSR Corporate social responsibility

CSRD Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive 

-D-

DAC Digital automatic coupling

DaS Rail diesel phase-out

DB AG Deutsche Bahn AG

DB E&C Deutsche Bahn Engineering&Consulting GmbH

DBGrG Deutsche Bahn Foundation Act

DB Group Deutsche Bahn Group

DKS Stuttgart Digital Hub

DNSH Do No Significant Harm  

DSA Dynamic visual display

DSD Digital Rail for Germany

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 (Railway Orphanage Foundation)

-F-

FRMCS Future Railway Mobile Communication System

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

GVFG Municipal Transport Financing Act

GWh Gigawatt hour

-H-

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 Action Program

kWh Kilowatt hour

-L-

LKSG Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains

LNG Liquified Natural Gas

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-

MaRisk Minimum Requirements for Risk Management

MitbestG German Co-Determination Act

MJ Megajoule

MWh Megawatt hour

-N-

NABU Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V.

NBS New construction line

Nkm Commercial vehicle kilometers

NOx Nitrogen oxide

No. Number

NP Natural persons

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-

PAM Prevention and remedial measures

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 savings system

RIC Rail infrastructure company

RMS Risk management system

ROCE Return on capital employed

RTO Remote Train Operation

-S-

S. Sentence

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

STI Short-term incentive

SVIK Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality

-T-

t Tons

TCFD Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

TEN Trans European Networks

TEN-V Trans European Traffic Network

tkm Ton kilometers

TOC Train operating company

TPS Train-path pricing system

Tsd. Thousand

-U-

UBA German Environment Agency

Ubf. Transshipment station

UIC International Union of Railways

UNGC United Nations Global Compact

UNGP UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

-V-

VDE German unification transport projects

VDV Association of German Transport Companies

-Z-

ZIB Railway Construction Initiative for the Future (Zukunftsinitiative Bahnbau)