CIT tasks
CIT helps railway undertakings implement international and supranational transport law, standardising contractual relationships and creating legal certainty to save members money and support their business.
CIT Strategy 2026-2030
The new role of the CIT members in the 21st century:
Where we come from?
- Administration for railway transport
- Part of the ministry of transport
- Acting as monopolies
- Obligation to carry
Where we want to go?
- Independent business units
- Structural and legal improvements
- Service-oriented
- Operating in a liberalised market environment
What is our endeavour?
- Coopetition (intermodal and intra-modal cooperation and competition)
- Glocal (global supply chain for goods and services and strong national and local performance)
- Strategic realignment of networks (Multimodality)
- Digitalisation
- Green transport by rail
CIT Strategy 2026-2030 [PDF]
How the work is organised
The annual General Assembly decides the strategic objectives, approves the budget and the annual accounts and elects the committees. Each full member has one vote, independent of the level of his subscription.
The Executive Committee is the body which directs the operations and administration and oversees the Secretary General. The General Secretariat employs in-house lawyers, experts and administrative assistants.
The main working bodies of the CIT are the CIV Committee (passenger traffic), CIM Committee (freight traffic) and the CUI Committee (use of infrastructure). Working groups and experts groups prepare recommendations for approval by the committees.
Finances
Members of the CIT pay subscriptions to support the costs of the association in proportion to the volume of international passenger traffic and/or freight traffic.
Annual Report 2024
2 Editorial
5 About CIT
9 Transport law and railway policies
13 International passenger traffic
17 International freight traffic
21 Use of infrastructure
24 Internal matters and history
26 Members
28 Balance sheet 2024
29 Income statement 2024
30 Appendix to the Annual Accounts
Annual Report 2024 [PDF]