Glossary
tonne-kilometre
tonne-kilometre is the standard unit for rail freight volume; World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 records "tracking rail freight in million tonne-km per country, sourced from UIC Railisa and OECD". In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 and Eurostat Railway Freight Transport Statistics are working examples.
What is tonne-kilometre?
The tonne-kilometre is the standard unit for rail freight volume, multiplying tonnes moved by distance carried.
Both Eurostat's rail_go tables and the World Bank's IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 series report rail freight in million tonne-km per country.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 — "tracking rail freight in million tonne-km per country, sourced from UIC Railisa and OECD". - Eurostat Railway Freight Transport Statistics — "tonne-km, tonnes by NST 2007 commodity, dangerous goods and quarterly series". - World Bank tags include.
Why does tonne-kilometre matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the tonne-kilometre label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — tracking rail freight in million tonne-km per country, sourced from UIC Railisa and OECD. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate tonne-kilometre in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 and confirm its record — "tracking rail freight in million tonne-km per country, sourced from UIC Railisa and OECD" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open Eurostat Railway Freight Transport Statistics and confirm its record — "tonne-km, tonnes by NST 2007 commodity, dangerous goods and quarterly series" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open World Bank tags include and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
See the term applied to real records: rail-transportation data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - nst 2007
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of tonne-kilometre?
World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "tracking rail freight in million tonne-km per country, sourced from UIC Railisa and OECD". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "tonne-kilometre" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides tonne-kilometre?
Open World Bank indicator IS.RRS.GOOD.MT.K6 next to Eurostat Railway Freight Transport Statistics and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing tonne-kilometre
6 datasets carry tonne-kilometre in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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