Article 4. General definitions

The following general definitions are applied in this Law:

multimodal transportation – transportation of passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items by different modes of transport under a single transportation document issued for the entire route;

multimodal transportation operator – a legal entity that organizes transportation and assumes responsibility for all carriers and third parties involved by it for transportation;

client – an individual or legal entity (passenger, consignor, consignee, charterer) using transport services on the basis of an agreement with a carrier or multimodal transportation operator;

transportation – transportation of passengers, luggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items from the point of departure to the point of destination;

transportation safety – ensuring the state of protection of the process of movement of the vehicle and the vehicle itself from threats of a man-made (technical and technological) nature, in which there is no unacceptable risk of violations of transportation safety and their consequences, entailing harm to the life or health of citizens, property of individuals or legal entities, the environment;

transportation document – a document in the form of a ticket, a baggage receipt, a bill of lading, a card with an electronic information carrier or other information carrier, confirming the conclusion of a contract for the carriage of passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items;

carrier – a legal or natural person who has a vehicle on the right of ownership or other legal grounds, which provides on a commercial basis services for the transportation of passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items, and also has an appropriate license, certificate or permit document for transportation character;

transit transport corridor – a route of vehicles on which the technical, technological and organizational conditions specified in the passport of the transit transport corridor are created to carry out the transportation of transit goods and a simplified procedure for performing customs operations is applied in relation to such goods and vehicles;

transport – a set of all types of means of communication, vehicles, technical devices and structures on the means of communication, ensuring the process of transportation of passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items;