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The development of intercontinental rail freight corridors opens extremely promising perspectives to the growth of rail transportation over long (…)

Corridor Development

UIC, by up-skilling and boosting research ans innovation capabilities, supports the rail sector in its continous process of excellence as a sustainable (…)

Research and Innovation

Expertise Development - Training

Enhance the quality and success of rail training activities through professional dialogue, exchange of experience, evaluation of methods and technical (…)

The UIC Rail Academy is dedicated to education, training, and skills development in the railway sector. It brings together the expertise of railway (…)

UIC Rail Academy

Institutional Publications

UIC Activity Report Manifesto for the UIC centenary UIC Work programme UIC Technical Solutions for the operational railway Design a better (…)

UIC is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2022.

UIC centenary

Making railway greener, quieter and more energy efficient.

Digitalisation is key tool to facilitate business growth, reduce future costs and mitigate errors. UIC manages and develops a broad portfolio of (…)

Data exchange

Intercity and High-Speed Committee Chair: Huo Baoshi (CR) Alliance of Universities for High-Speed Rail Chair: YU Zujun (Bejing Jiaotong University), (…)

Intercity and High-Speed

Security Research Projects

Future Railway Mobile Communication System

FRMCS

World Congress on Rail Training, Talent and Development (WCRT)

UIC-IEA

Passenger Experts Subgroup

Global System for Mobile communications - Railways

GSM-R

CorruTrack Contract 1 – Rail Corrugation Research: State-of-the-Art Review, Modelling of Corrugation Mechanisms and Development of UIC Guidelines on (…)

CR Research on Railway Development Policy in AP region

Asia Pacific

FUNDRES

Future UNified DC Railway Electrification System

Rail System Europe

Measures for the effective development of multimodal transport in the Asia-Pacific Region aimed (…)

Asia Pacific Multimodality

Long term development of railway stations

Passenger Railway Stations

Future Railways Mobile Communications Systems Solutions

FRMCS

GSM-R Rail System

Tagging for Track Components and Artificial Vision Inventory Systems

RFID-AVRIS

FRT 2025

Future Rail Tourism

Passenger

5GRAIL

5G for future RAILway mobile communication system

Rail System Digital

DOOR TO DOOR

SFERA3

SFERA – IRS 90940 Maintenance – DAS experts group (…)

Rail System

Capacity4Rail

Rail System Europe

rEvERsE

Ecological Effects of Railways on wildlifE

ECOPASSENGER

EcoPassenger tool development

Passenger Sustainability

FROTCC2

Future Railway Operations and Traffic Control (…)

Safety Rail System

Noise Technical Advice

Tourism Potential of Railway Services 2

OSDM

Open Sales and Distribution Model

Passenger Europe

MODUS

Modelling and assessing the role of air transport (…)

Europe

BISON

Biodiversity and infrastructure synergies and (…)

Sustainability Europe

Passenger

Training centre networks

Training Expertise Development

TRISTRAM

TransItion STRategy on vegetAtion Management

DIGITAL 5 - CR Study on Digitalization and Intelligent Railway Technology (DIGINTEL)

Digital Artificial Intelligence Asia Pacific

Virtual European Rail Academy

Expertise Development

SIA

System for vehicle infrastructure Interaction (…)

Infrastructure Digital Europe

TER4RAIL

Transversal exploratory research activities for railway

Research Europe

IRS 30345

New IRS 30345 updating UIC Leaflet 345 “Environmental

Sustainability Rolling Stock

ECOV4R

Ecosystem Valuation for Railways

Predicting the maintenance with digital technology

Digital Asia Pacific Maintenance

AUDIT4ALL

Develop a joint supplier audit program for rail (…)

Freight Europe

CO2FREE 2

How to reduce GHG emissions when using concrete and (…)

HS FMI

Financial Models for Infrastructure

TES 3

Traction Energy Settlement & Data Exchange (…)

Sustainability Rail System

EES Platform

Works of Programme Managers and SETs

Rail System

RERA-Rain

Resilient Railways facing Heavy Rains

Infrastructure Sustainability Rail System Climate change

Air+HSR

Commuter and Regional Train Services II

WAT

Warning of Approaching Trains

Safety Level Crossings ILCAD

Mind4change

Prepare railway staff for cultural changes linked (…)

Safety

Passenger

Harmonised Methodology for Infrastructure Lifetime Assessment

MILA

Infrastructure Rail System Track & Structures

Technical advice and assessment of European Railway noise policy and research

Freight Sustainability Noise

URT - PRISM (Passenger Railway International Security-based Mobile app)

Passenger

Acoustic control for new composite blocks

IRaTCA Training sessions for UIC AP members

DIGIM

Digital Impacts on Business Processes

Digital

CEMP

Customer Experience Management Platform

Passenger Customer-services

Training Asia Pacific

Big Data-Based Timetable Management

Big Data Asia Pacific

ERTMS Platform services

Rail System ERTMS

PREDICT

PREparing for the Domino effect in crisis siTuation

Security Europe

PROTECTRAIL

The Railway-Industry Partnership for Integrated (…)

Security Europe

RESTRAIL

Reduction of suicides and trespasses on railway (…)

Security Europe

SILENCE

Quieter surface transport

Sustainability Noise Europe

REUSE

Sustainable Use of Resources in Railways

TWINNING II

Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders

Safety Europe

G-CODE

Clearance gauge common codification

RERA-Temp

Resilient Railways facing High Temperatures

Safety Sustainability Climate change Operations

DAC

Could be partly financed through EU-RAIL JU

Freight Security Operations

FRMCS-4

FRMCS Phase 4

Signallisation Communications

HSTC

High-Speed Transport Comparison

HYDROGEN RISKS

Hydrogen risks analysis and safety comparison with (…)

Freight Safety

RERA-WIND

REsilient RAilways facing Climate Change (RERA) Wind

Rail System

IHSR

Intelligent High-Speed Rail

NN

New Normal

ZEROWASTE II

Circular Economy best practice workshops (continuation

NOVITÀ

Noise and vibration technical advice

ECOV4R project

Ecosystem Valuation for Railways

Administration of Passenger Technical Issues

High Speed Activities

High-speed Passenger

Passenger

Reversible substations

REVSUB

Rail System Energy

PASSAGE

Passenger Accessibility Solutions Support and (…)

Passenger

Direct Radio Link for Train Completeness Safety Check

Rail System ERTMS

e- WAG

Freight Interoperability Standardisation

Broken Rail Detection

Infrastructure Rail System Track & Structures

Tourism potential of railway services

Passenger

Asset Management Common Method and Template in a GIS implementation

Rail System Asset Management

XBORDER

Freight

DIGIM II

DIgital IMpacts on business processes II

Digital Level Crossings

SHERPA

Shared and coHerent European Railway Protection (…)

Security Europe

Station Managers Global Group

Passenger Railway Stations

Administration of Passenger Commercial Issues

Passenger

OPTIYARD

Optimised Real-time Yard and Network Management

Europe

Research on the Status Quo of Key System Technical Standards for High Speed Trains

High-speed Research Asia Pacific

Railway Objects Semantic Dictionary

Rail System Digital

UN AND INTL ORG PROMOTION

Long trains with distributed power

RTM GIS

RailTopoModel for Geographic Information Systems

Rail System Digital

Rail System Rolling Stock

STABLETRACK

Track Stability and prevention of buckling

Administ of HERMES Messages + relating 900 Leaflets

RailTopoModel (ERIM)

Rail System Digital

Security platform

Security

GSM-R

GSM-R Rail System

Freight Interoperability Standardisation

CIPRNET

Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience (…)

Security Europe

SECRET

SECurity of Railways against Electromagnetic aTtacks

Security Europe

GRAFFOLUTION

Security Europe

TETRIS

Terrorists in Europe Targeting Railway InfrastructureS

Security Europe

TRANSLATE4RAIL

Translation for breaking language barriers in the (…)

Freight Europe

CARBODIN

Car Body Shells, Doors and Interiors

Rail System Europe

SAFETY4RAILS

Data-based analysis for SAFETY and security (…)

Security Europe

LOWNOISEPAD

Low cost noise control by optimised rail pad

Railway infrastructure maintenance strategy for different operation needs in Asia-Pacific

Infrastructure Research Asia Pacific

RIVAS

Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions

Sustainability Noise Europe

CACTUS

Comparative Analysis of the Combined Transport (…)

Freight Combined Transport

DP-RAIL

Digital Platform Rail

Freight Information technology Digital

Drone4Rail for Plain Track

D4R-PT

DRONE4RAIL for bridge inspections

Robotic based Inspection Sensor Monitoring

ROB Inspections

Alternative Treatments to creosote for wooden sleepers

At-Wood

ACORD

ACOustics of Reprofiling and onboarRD monitoring of (…)

Infrastructure Sustainability

CONFORCES

Validation of measurements of the wheel-rail (…)

PREDICT-MAINTENANCE

OCL and Substations Predictive Maintenance

Rail System

OPTSPEED

Optimum Speed for High-Speed Rail Systems

Liber-Afford

Impact of liberalisation on HSR affordability

SUSTREP/330

Sustainability reporting - Second timeframe

Mixed Traffic HSL operations

A comprehensive study on the feasibility and (…)

High-speed Passenger

AIST

Artificial Intelligence Models, Scalability and (…)

Digital Artificial Intelligence

Opening video of the 84th UIC General Assembly - Portoroz, 27 June 2014

UIC HIGH SPEED World Congress 2015 (Opening video)

Isa APAYDIN, UIC Vice Chairman, highlights the 2018 priorities for UIC and its Members

Dear Colleagues, Since the very first appearance of railway tracks in ancient history, when wheeled vehicles were pulled by men and animals as a (…)

What is FRMCS, the Future Railway Mobile Communication System?

UIC Sustainable Development Unit - Network Noise & Vibration

Train of the future

Eurasian corridors: development potential