D5 Annex report WP 4 - ETIS plus

D5 Annex WP 4: ETIS DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER
MANUAL – PASSENGER DEMAND
4.9 Testing phase
As it is quite difficult to receive the national matrices due to the fact that they are mostly treated
confidential and not commercially available, the team has decided to be progressive within
Phase 2 and construct a synthetic matrix (test matrix), even when not all requested information
was already available from WP2, WP5 and WP7. This especially holds for attractivity indicators
different from the standard variables GDP, population, households, motorization and GVA,
travel impedances for rail and partly for air transport (tariffs). Another point are the
EURCONTROL flight data, for which a MoU between EC and EUROCONTROL is required.
Therefore not all steps as described in the previous sections – especially concerning the matrix
bounding procedure – could be done in a satisfactory way. Nevertheless we extracted 28 submatrices
out of it, one for each country, with convenient aggregations of its surrounding
countries. In addition to these matrices we produced country­specific assignment maps for all
main modes (rail, road and air) and a brief summary of these results. This procedure targets in
confronting the representatives of the 28 core countries by providing the national synthetic
matrices for a critical evaluation within the very beginning of Phase 3. In addition the countries
will be asked to provide a maximum on information available to prepare the best possible
European matrix. The place to present the idea and to provide the information will be the UN
ECE.
For every country a part of the whole synthetic matrix is available. This part consists of
· domestic flows of the country
· international flows originating / destinating in the country
· transit flows touching the country
All flows mentioned above are separated by three modes
· road,
· rail and
· air
focussing on the main mode, meaning trips, where more than one mode is involved are
dedicated to the core mode of this trip. See section 3.3 for details.
These flows are presented in different levels of regionalisation focussing on the grade of
detailness which might be existing in the transport information existing in each country.
Therefore the matrix are shown on
· NUTS3­level for regions for the country itself
· NUTS1­level for bordering countries
· NUTS0­level for other countries
To illustrate the different grade of detailness the table below gives an extract of the matrix for
France which is derived from the synthetic matrix covering all countries. The flows shown are
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