Glossary:Rail freight transport
The definitions of various kinds of rail transport are:
Total rail transport
Total rail transport (in tonne-kilometres) was calculated as a sum of national, international and transit transport, where international transport is the sum of international loaded and unloaded in the reporting country.
National rail transport
Rail transport where the goods are both loaded and unloaded within the same reporting Member State, irrespective of the route followed by the railway vehicle.
International rail transport
Rail transport where the goods are either loaded or unloaded, but not both, in the reporting Member State, with a distinction between goods loaded and goods unloaded.
Rail transit
Rail transport where the goods pass through the reporting Member State without being loaded, unloaded or transshipped.