Definition: Types of railway transport

Category: Transport

The main categories are:
- Revenue earning railway transport: Transport conveyed for an outside party against payment
- Service railway transport: Transport which the railway enterprise performs in order to meet its internal
requirements whether or not such transport is revenue earning.
(Fourth version of the Transport Glossary)


The main categories are:
-- Revenue earning rail transport: Transport conveyed for an outside party against payment.
-- Service rail transport: Transport which the railway enterprise performs in order to meet its internal requirements whether or not such transport produces revenues for bookkeeping purpose.
(Third version of the Transport Glossary) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/other_documents/transport_glossary_4_ed/index.cfm?TargetUrl=DSP_TRANSPORT_GLOSSARY_4_ED Eurostat, ECMT, UN/ECE, "Glossary for Transport Statistics", 3rd Edition, Luxembourg 2003