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Joint letter to Italian National Safety Authority on NIB recommendations following Brixen accident

Joint letter from ASSOFERR and UIP to ANSF – Italian National Safety Authority   UIP, the International Association of Wagon Keepers and ECMs, shares your opinion that the derailment in Brixen and, in particular the results of the investigation process, are relevant and require thoughtful discussions at European level. However, having read the NIB report, […]

UIP position paper on wagon performance

Provision of Vehicle Performance Data   UIP regularly points out the high importance of vehicle performance data for Wagon Keepers and ECMs around Europe. It has previously formalised its general demand on vehicle performance data in its Position Paper on a European Strategy for an Efficient Exchange of Rolling Stock Data in Rail Freight (July […]

UIP 64th Annual Report 2013

UIP position paper on data exchange

Position Paper on a European Strategy for an Efficient Exchange of Rolling Stock Data in Rail Freight   UIP generally supports the goals expressed by the European Commission concerning the development of a Single European Railway Area, especially removing administrative and technical barriers and developing easy and common procedures at European level. This is particularly […]

UIP 63rd Annual Report 2012

The Rail Sector Vision paper – Challenge 2050

Letter to the European Commission on unjustified restriction for ECMs in Italy

Joint letter from ERFA and UIP to the European Commission   The UIP and ERFA have been informed by the Italian Member Association (ASSOFERR) about the introduction of an illegal and unjustified restriction for ECM (Entity in Charge of Maintenance) by Trenitalia implying a limitation of the free movement of dangerous goods vehicles (RID wagons) […]

UIP 62nd Management Report 2011

UIP 61st Management Report 2010

UIP RSRD² project for better exchange of information

RSRD²: the exchange of information   One of the most important requirements of the ECM certification in order to ensure safe operation of the European freight railway is the exchange of information/data between the actors, i.e. RU and ECM/keeper. A freight wagon is mainly operated all over Europe, by many different RUs, sometimes across boarders. […]