International Union of Railways (UIC)

UIC mission and objectives

UIC mission:

to promote rail transport at world level and meet the challenges of mobility and sustainable development.

Main UIC objectives:

• facilitate the sharing of best practices among members (benchmarking)
• support members in their efforts to develop new business and new areas of activities
• propose new ways to improve technical and environmental performance
• promote interoperability, create new world standards for railways (including common standards with other transport modes)
• develop centres of competence (High Speed, Safety, Security, e-Business, …)

UIC: the worldwide international organisation of the railway sector

UIC including 202 members across all 5 continents

• 78 active members (including the railways from Europe, Russia, the Middle East, North Africa, South Africa, India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Korea, Kazakhstan, and companies operating worldwide such as Veolia Transport)
• 51 associate members (including railways from Asia, Africa, America and Australia)
• 72 affiliate members (related or ancillary rail transport businesses or services)

UIC members may be:

• integrated railway companies
• infrastructure managers
• railway or combined transport operators, rolling stock and traction leasing companies service providers (restaurant services, sleeping cars, public transport, maritime transport)

• 20/12 Conference on International Transport to be Held in Warsaw from November 15-16 November 2018
• 31/05 Sustainable Land Use: Herbie project deliverable starting to take shape
• 01/02 Railsponsible signs a partnership agreement with the UN Environment Sustainable Public Procurement Programme
• 15/12 UIC is definitively on the “digital track”, one year after having launched the UIC Worldwide Digital Platform
• 07/12 Renato Mazzoncini, CEO of Italian Railways Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) succeeds Oleg Belozerov as the new Chairman of UIC, the worldwide railway organisation
• 16/11 UIC addresses the question of adaptation challenges during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP22 in Morocco
• 19/05 UIC Asia-Pacific publishes its strategic vision for the railways in Asia and Australia for 2050
• 12/05 First UIC North American Regional Assembly held on 4 May 2016 in Washington
• 16/06 2nd UIC World Conference on Railway Standardisation successfully held in Paris