Abkürzungsverzeichnis
-A-
ABS Expansion line
AEG General Railways Act
AGV MOVE Mobility and Transport Services Association
AI Artificial Intelligence
AktG Stock Corporation Act
ATO Automatic train operation
AUD Australian dollar
-B-
bAV Company pension plan
bbl Barrel
BDI Federal Association of German Industry
BEV Federal Railway Fund
BGB German Civil Code
BGH German Federal Supreme Court
BilMoG German Accounting Law Modernization Act
BIM Building information modeling
BKartA Federal Cartel Office
BMAS Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
BMDV Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
BMF Federal Ministry of Finance
BMI Federal Ministry of the Interior
BMUV Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
BMWK Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection
BNetzA Federal Network Agency
BSWAG Federal Rail Infrastructure Extension Act
Bund Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany)
Buskm Bus kilometers
BVerfG Federal Constitutional Court
-C-
CCO Chief Compliance Officer
CEF Connecting Europe Facility
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CER Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies
CHF Swiss francs
CO₂ Carbon dioxide
CO₂e CO₂ equivalent
COSO Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
CP Commercial paper
CSA Credit Support Agreements
CSO Chief Sustainability Officer
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR-RUG CSR Directive Implementation Act
CTA Contractual Trust Arrangement
-D-
DAC Digital automatic coupling
DB AG Deutsche Bahn AG
DB E&C Deutsche Bahn Engineering&Consulting GmbH
DB Finance Deutsche Bahn Finance GmbH
DB Group Deutsche Bahn Group
DB IO Deutsche Bahn International Operations
DGCN German Global Compact Network
DKS Stuttgart Digital Hub
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
ECB European Central Bank
ECJ European Court of Justice
EDIP European Debt Issuance Program
EEG Renewable Energy Sources Act
EFA Emission factors
ERA European Union Agency for Railways
ERegG Railway Regulation Act
ERTMS European Rail Traffic Management System
ESG Environmental, Social, Governance
ESTW Electronic interlocking
ETCS European Train Control System
EU European Union
EVG Railway and Transport Workers’ Union
-F-
CL Full container load
FS Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian state-owned railway)
FTE Full-time employees
FüPoG II Second Act for the Equal Participation of Women and Men in Management Positions
-G-
GBP British pound sterling
GDL German Train Drivers’ Union
GDP Gross domestic product
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GHG Greenhouse gas
GRI Global Reporting Initiative
GVFG Municipal Transport Financing Act
GWh Gigawatt hour
-H-
HR Human Resources
HVO Hydrotreated vegetable oil
-I-
IC Intercity
ICE Intercity Express
ICS Internal control system
IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards
IMO International Maritime Organization
ISO International Organization for Standardization
-K-
KBV Group Employer/Works Council Agreement
KonTraG Corporate Sector Supervision and Transparency Act
kWh Kilowatt hour
-L-
LCL Less than container load
LKSG German Supply Chain Act
LTI Long-term incentive
LTIF Lost time injury frequency
Ltkm Weight-related ton kilometers
LuFV Performance and Financing Agreement
-M-
m² Square meters
MaaS Mobility as a service
MaRisk Minimum requirements for risk management
MitbestG German Co-Determination Act
MJ Megajoule
MRR Minimum required rate of return
MWh Megawatt hour
-N-
NABU Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Association (Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V.)
NBS New construction line
NFS Non-financial statement
Nkm Commercial vehicle kilometers
No. Number
NOK Norwegian krone
NOx Nitrogen oxide emissions
NP Natural persons
NPM National Platform for the Future of Mobility
NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch state-owned railway)
-O-
ÖPNV Local public transport
-P-
Para. Paragraph
PCGK Federal Public Corporate Governance Code
PFA Financing agreement
Pkm Passenger kilometers
PKP Polskie Koleje Państwowe (Polish state-owned railway)
PPA Power purchase agreements
PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers
-R-
RB Regional railway
RE Regional Express
RegG Regionalization Act
RESY Regional energy-saving system
RIC Rail infrastructure company
RMS Risk management system
ROCE Return on capital employed
-S-
S. Clause
SAF Sustainable aviation fuel
SBB Swiss Federal Railways
SBTi Science Based Targets initiative
SDGs Sustainable development goals
SGV Rail freight transport
SI Satisfaction index
SNCF Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French state-owned railway)
SO₂ Sulfur dioxide emissions
S&P S&P Global Ratings
SPNV Regional rail passenger transport
Sts(in) Secretary of State
SWP Strategic workforce planning
-T-
t Tons
TCFD Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
TEE TransEuropExpress
TEN Trans-European Network
TEU Twenty-foot equivalent unit
TJ Terajoule
tkm Ton kilometers
TOC Train operating company
TPS Train-path pricing system
Trkm Train-path kilometers
-U-
UBA German Environment Agency
UNGC United Nations Global Compact
USD US dollar
-V-
VDB Association of the Railway Industry
VDE German unification transport projects
-W-
WACC Weighted average cost of capital
WiFi Wireless local area network
WSF Economic Stabilization Fund
