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UIP presentation + EVIC

Bruxelles, 01 décembre 2010

Charles-Antoine RIVIERE

Coordinateur Technique UIP 1

UIP – Who we are?

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Founded in 1950, the International Union of Private Wagons encompasses today 15 national associations within the EU and has its seat in Brussels.

It represents owners, loaders, users and other parties interested in about 180.000 private rail freight wagons running in Europe

The economic importance of the fleet of private wagons is a combined result of specialization and use of efficient logistic processes such that the total European wagon fleet produces nearly half of all tonne-kilometres carried.

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UIP – Who we are?

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The UIP represents the interests of its members at the European Union and other international organizations. It carries out research in the fields of technology, operations, economics and marketing and looks after the interest of the private wagon by contributing to the drawing up of international regulations and guidelines.

The UIP’s main objective is to guarantee a future for the private wagon within a liberalized rail freight sector, aiming at always safe and more efficient and competitive railway transport.

Indispensable prerequisite for pursuing this objective is to increase the market share of rail freight transport. Within the framework of its European activities UIP actively supports together with its partner organizations all corresponding European liberalization policy endeavours.

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In the course of liberalisation and harmonisation of the sector, which was commanded by the EU with the well known directives on high speed transport, conventional transport and safety, and which were beneficiary to the private and mainly small enterprises, the actors of the sectors were requested to participate actively to their organisation.

To implement the directives, 16 TSIs (Technical Specifications for Interoperability) were set up; some of them are currently revised. Yet the word «specifications » is misleading because they are clearly legal texts, which the Member States must absolutely transpose in their national legislations. As further help to implementation, around 80 European standards were and still are to be completed or created. Although standards are usually recommendations, they become comparable to laws as soon as they are referred to in a TSI, i.e. a law.

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UIP’s important role

What’s new with the UIP?


More specifics: UIP homepage:http://www.uiprail.org/category.php?scategory=2

Committee works at the UIP

Internal MeetingsManagement, Director’s , Technical Committees, RSRD² project, …

External MeetingsGCU (JC, PEX, technical annexes, …), ERA (TSIs, ECM, ERA TF, ERATV, …), Sector (GRB, JSG, …), DG MOVE (Telematic, Noise, …), OTIF (RID/ADR, technical expert group, …)

Almost 40 working Groups at the European level to cover by the UIP’s members.


Move in summer 2009New address:

Av. Herrmann Debroux 15A Tel : +32 26 72 88 47

1160 Brüssel Fax: +32 26 72 81 14

Belgien e-mail: [email protected]

Homepage: www.uiprail.org

Good connections:Public transportation „in front of the door“

Metro Line 5 Station « Herrmann Debroux »

Tram Line 94, Station « Herrmann Debroux »

16 Km away from airport

EU Commission, Parliament and other associations of the sector CER, UNIFE, EIM, UIRR, etc. as well as the standards bodies CEN and CENELEC are reachable in less than 20 minutes

ERFA office „door to door“

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New address



Location of UIP within Brussels



Isabelle BrahySecretariat

Dr.-Ing. Holger SegererSecretary General

(since January 2010)

Charles-Antoine RivièreTechnical Co-ordinator

Your UIP Team in Brussels


Current information: UIP Newsletter – regularly twice a year UIP Flash-News – publication depending on current topics Technical Newsletter – 12 times a year; publication linked to the milestones of the

working groups


UIP strives for tight cooperation with member associations


Results of the ERA TF

• European Action Program:- A Visual Inspection of the European wheelset/axle population (according to EVIC)- A more in-depth investigation of samples of wheelsets from defined operating areas- A European-wide implementation of systematic traceability of wheelset maintenance

Collection of data will start from 01.08.2010The data will be recorded in a filterable electronic system at latest from 01.01.2012 onwards.

• Confirmation of the European standard axle load of 20t for UIC Type A axles (and the special cases, e. g. France, Belgium, Sweden)

• Clarification: new (design) standards are not applicable on existing/old designs

• European Common Criteria for Maintenance

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The Joint Sector Program worked out in the ERA Task Force was fully adopted


The whole European wagon fleet will be subject to a Visual Inspection of the axle status

Goal:• to sort out axles from operation according to EVIC• to record a set of minimum data for the inspected axles• to remove from service (immediately or after unloading) axles not complying

with the Minimum Acceptance Criteria (axles with a high presumption of damages in favour of causing cracks) and

• to hand over removed axles to heavy maintenance with appropriate treatment and NDT

When/where: As soon as a wagon enters a WS and at least when wagon is lifted or on pits


The 1st element of the European Action Program: Visual Inspection program of the European wheelset/axle population


• 2 European “Train the Trainers”trainings for Joint EVIC bodies• 15 member states integrated• ca. 50 training sessions in memberstates (workshops, keepers, RUs)• > 750 trainers and workshop stafftrained• EVIC docs in 10 languages• EVIC started from 01.04.2010• More than 310.000 axles checkedup to November 2010




• Implementation in GCU progressingApplication in Mai 2011 scheduledLast point of discussion: the highly negative cost impact of a multi application of EVIC

within the 4/6 years periodWill be discussed in the frame of the JSG.Potential solutions:- Markings on wheels- To not record the EVIC results when already done once- ...





The 2nd element of the European Action Program: the Sampling Programme

Sampling programme aims to analyse the efficiency of the EVIC on cracks detection.

For the UIP: 6 000 axles have to be checked through a dedicated process (24 000 axles checked by the Sector).

For the UIP, the checks are performed by GATX, VTG, ERMEWA and WASCOSA: 1500 checks per keeper, within 1 year (June 2010 – Mai 2011)

Because of the low number of inspected wheelset at the moment it’s not possible to draw conclusions from the available data.



The 3rd element of the European Action Program:European Wheelset Traceability (EWT)

(see EWT Implementation Guide v1.5) European Traceability approved by the ERA

-> 47 data-> start from August 2010 -> recorded in a filterable electronic system at latest from 01.01.2012

Self-commitment to implement the EWT Next revision of EN 15313 will implement EWT EWT fits with EBA request (Allgemeinverfügung) ANSF may revoke the Italian requirements


- The final results on inadmissible ‘’UIC surface roughness’’ in maintenance levels/ UIC project. The first results are expected in 2011;

- Handling of painted/ unpainted situation/ EURAXLES project. The first results are expected in 2014;

- Examine the need for harmonization of NDT techniques/ EURAXELS projects. The first results are expected in 2014;

- Effects on WS/axles caused by special events (derailments, etc)/ Investigation project which will be started by the JSG.


Next steps for the JSG


Corrosion is only one of the factors of derailment. Additional factors have to be investigated.

The ERA will set up a study on causes of train derailment.Continuation of cooperation between the ERA and all the Sector

organizations (RUs, IMs, ECMs, keepers, …) through a Freight Platform.


Cooperation with ERA and the Authorities

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