Unique vehicle number
The unique vehicle number , officially in the EU European Vehicle Number (European Vehicle Number EVN), besides also TSI number called, is a twelve-digit number, with the rolling stock in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa are clearly identified. The numbers are assigned by the states that apply the Uniform Technical Regulations of OTIF . The uniform technical regulations are largely identical to the Technical Specifications Interoperability (TSI) of the EU .
history
The first efforts to clearly mark railway vehicles throughout Europe were made by the UIC , which introduced the uniform marking of the freight cars of its member railways in the 1960s. This identification should also be IT- compatible and therefore contain a possibility for error detection. An additional self-check digit has been added for this purpose. At the same time, the class symbols for freight cars were standardized. A little later, the passenger coaches were also given UIC EDP numbers . In the case of the generic symbols for passenger coaches, only the basic structure and the main symbols were standardized. Locomotives were rarely used across borders in the 1960s and 1970s, so they were only confiscated on a voluntary basis. For locomotives that are not used internationally and those that only run on border routes on the basis of mutual agreements, abbreviated EDP numbers could be used without the first five digits. If locomotives are used internationally, the missing points should be added later in the form of additional signs. The fifth digit should be used as a correction factor so that the self-checking digits of the seven- and twelve-digit numbers remain identical. The railway administrations were very reluctant to introduce the EDP numbers. The Deutsche Bundesbahn began in 1968, followed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1970, Renfe around 1980 and ČSD in 1988 . The majority of the railway administrations retained their previous locomotive designation systems.
With the "Decision of the Commission of 11 August 2006 on the technical specification for the interoperability of the subsystem traffic operation and traffic control of the conventional trans-European rail system (announced under file number K (2006) 3593) (2006/920 / EG)" the UIC- Numbers to official, state-regulated numbers. Accordingly, the members of the UIC were no longer responsible for defining and assigning the numbers, but the state authorities. The codes that previously designated the member railways became country codes. For example, 80 no longer stood for DB, but for Germany. Accordingly, all railway vehicles in Germany that did not belong to the DB were given a number with the code 80. One consequence was that the regular and wide-gauge traction vehicles had to be included in the system in all participating countries. In addition, the numbers that have been assigned once are no longer changed when the product is sold to another country.
In a transitional period, certain rules from the UIC era continued to apply until the ETV marking adopted on June 5, 2014 came into force on January 1, 2015 .
Structure of the number
The unique vehicle number consists of the following elements:
- The first and second digits define the vehicle type and suitability for interoperability
- The third and fourth digits define the country in which the vehicle is registered
- The fifth to eighth digits describe the technical characteristics of the vehicle (for vehicles with a 9 as the first digit, with the exception of special vehicles, the meaning of these digits is regulated nationally)
- The ninth to eleventh digits are the actual serial number
- The twelfth digit is the self-checking number; it is separated from the others in the vehicle address by a hyphen.
Grouping of vehicle types
According to the history of the origin of the number system, the lowest numbers are assigned to the freight wagons, followed by the passenger coaches and only at the end are the locomotives and special vehicles. However, a later revision of the system made it necessary to assign the freight wagons a number range above the passenger wagons. Basically, the classification today is based on the first digit:
- 1 to 4 and 8 = freight wagons, see UIC wagon number
- 5 to 7 = coaches without self-propulsion, see UIC coach number
- 9 = traction vehicles (including multiple units and special sidecars) as well as special vehicles, see UIC identification of the traction vehicles . Special vehicles receive a 9 in the first, second and fifth positions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the applicable regulations on the OTIF homepage
- ↑ ETV labeling, downloaded as PDF from the OTIF homepage, technology section ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/1614 OF THE COMMISSION of 25 October 2018 laying down the specifications for the vehicle registration registers in accordance with Article 47 of Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending and repealing Decision 2007/756 / EC of the Commission - Official Journal of the European Union L 268/84 Annex 6 Part Zero [1]
