diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/additional.tools b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/additional.tools
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1a61a0f15f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/additional.tools
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<additional xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://sumo.dlr.de/xsd/additional_file.xsd">
+    <busStop endPos="40" id="busstop1" lane="middle_0" lines="100 101 102" startPos="20"/>
+</additional>
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/errors.tools b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/errors.tools
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_additional.add.xml b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_additional.add.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bc9e3ce31c9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_additional.add.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<additional xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://sumo.dlr.de/xsd/additional_file.xsd">
+    <route id="r0" edges="beg middle end rend"/>
+
+    <busStop id="busstop0" lane="beg_0" startPos="20" endPos="40" lines="100 101 102"/>
+    <busStop id="busstop1" lane="middle_0" startPos="20" endPos="40" lines="100 101 102"/>
+</additional>
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_net.net.xml b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_net.net.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8694d790bdc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_net.net.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!-- generated on Thu 28 Mar 2013 08:20:56 AM CET by Netedit Version dev-SVN-r13533
+This data file and the accompanying materials
+are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0
+which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
+SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+<configuration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://sumo.dlr.de/xsd/netedit.exeConfiguration.xsd">
+
+    <input>
+        <sumo-net-file value="/scr1/erdm_ja/debug/cutRoutes/three_split.net.xml"/>
+    </input>
+
+    <output>
+        <output-file value="/scr1/erdm_ja/debug/cutRoutes/input_net.net.xml"/>
+    </output>
+
+    <processing>
+        <no-internal-links value="true"/>
+        <no-turnarounds value="true"/>
+        <offset.disable-normalization value="true"/>
+    </processing>
+
+</configuration>
+-->
+
+<net version="0.13" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://sumo.dlr.de/xsd/net_file.xsd">
+
+    <location netOffset="0.00,500.00" convBoundary="0.00,0.00,2500.00,1000.00" origBoundary="0.00,-500.00,2500.00,500.00" projParameter="!"/>
+
+    <edge id="beg2left" from="beg" to="begleft" priority="-1">
+        <lane id="beg2left_0" index="0" speed="13.90" length="498.55" shape="501.65,501.45 501.65,1000.00"/>
+    </edge>
+    <edge id="end" from="end" to="absEnd" priority="-1">
+        <lane id="end_0" index="0" speed="27.80" length="498.55" shape="1501.45,498.35 2000.00,498.35"/>
+    </edge>
+    <edge id="left2end" from="endleft" to="end" priority="-1">
+        <lane id="left2end_0" index="0" speed="13.90" length="498.55" shape="1498.35,1000.00 1498.35,501.45"/>
+    </edge>
+    <edge id="middle" from="beg" to="end" priority="-1">
+        <lane id="middle_0" index="0" speed="27.80" length="990.50" shape="504.75,498.35 1495.25,498.35"/>
+    </edge>
+
+    <junction id="absEnd" type="unregulated" x="2000.00" y="500.00" incLanes="end_0" intLanes="" shape="2000.00,496.75 2000.00,499.95"/>
+    <junction id="beg" type="unregulated" x="500.00" y="500.00" incLanes="" intLanes="" shape="500.05,501.45 503.25,501.45 504.75,499.95 504.75,496.75"/>
+    <junction id="begleft" type="unregulated" x="500.00" y="1000.00" incLanes="beg2left_0" intLanes="" shape="503.25,1000.00 500.05,1000.00"/>
+    <junction id="end" type="priority" x="1500.00" y="500.00" incLanes="left2end_0 middle_0" intLanes="" shape="1496.75,501.45 1499.95,501.45 1501.45,499.95 1501.45,496.75 1495.25,496.75 1495.25,499.95">
+        <request index="0" response="10" foes="10"/>
+        <request index="1" response="00" foes="01"/>
+    </junction>
+    <junction id="endleft" type="unregulated" x="1500.00" y="1000.00" incLanes="" intLanes="" shape="1499.95,1000.00 1496.75,1000.00"/>
+
+    <connection from="left2end" to="end" fromLane="0" toLane="0" dir="l" state="m"/>
+    <connection from="middle" to="end" fromLane="0" toLane="0" dir="s" state="M"/>
+
+</net>
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_routes.rou.xml b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_routes.rou.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..167d78fe7d3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/input_routes.rou.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<routes>
+    <vehicle id="v1" depart="10" route="r0">
+        <stop busStop="busstop0" duration="10"/>
+        <stop busStop="busstop1" duration="10"/>
+    </vehicle>
+
+    <vehicle id="v2" depart="20" route="r0"/>
+</routes>
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/options.tools b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/options.tools
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0f540c4bdb15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/options.tools
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+input_net.net.xml input_routes.rou.xml -a input_additional.add.xml --routes-output out.rou.xml --stops-output out.add.xml tools/route/cutRoutes.py
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/output.tools b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/output.tools
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4baca10401bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/output.tools
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Valid area contains 4 edges
+Parsing routes from input_routes.rou.xml
+Could not reconstruct new departure time for vehicle 'v1'. Using old departure time.
+Parsed 2 vehicles and kept 1 routes
+Number of disconnected routes: 0. Most frequent missing edges:
+Wrote 2 routes
+Wrote 1 standalone routes
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/routes.tools b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/routes.tools
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..50beebd03e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/routeRef/routes.tools
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<!-- generated with cutRoutes.py for input_net.net.xml from ['input_routes.rou.xml'] -->
+<routes xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://sumo.dlr.de/xsd/routes_file.xsd">
+    <route edges="middle end" id="r0"/>
+    <vehicle depart="10.00" id="v1" route="r0">
+        <stop busStop="busstop1" duration="10"/>
+    </vehicle>
+    <vehicle depart="20.00" id="v2" route="r0"/>
+</routes>
diff --git a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/testsuite.tools b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/testsuite.tools
index 16b48ae022e5..ee77a44f82d5 100644
--- a/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/testsuite.tools
+++ b/tests/tools/route/cut_routes/testsuite.tools
@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ with_unknown_busstops
 
 # remove unknown access from bus stops
 with_access
+
+# using standalone routes
+routeRef