D5 Annex report WP 3: ETIS Database methodology ... - ETIS plus
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<strong>D5</strong> <strong>Annex</strong> <strong>WP</strong> 3: DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER<br />
MANUAL – FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND<br />
The transport mode is registered at the border of the country in most trade sources and at the border<br />
of the EU for the extra EU trade in COMEXT; as a result it is possible to estimate the part that is<br />
transhipped onto another mode. When the trade statistics show that a flow leaves Spain by sea and<br />
enters Poland by road, it can be concluded that somewhere transhipment has taken place. In this<br />
phase all direct transport without transhipment and indirect transport with transhipment is<br />
registered.<br />
A difference in definition appears here since for the extra EU trade the mode is not anymore<br />
registered at the border of the countries but at the border of the EU. Specific solutions will be<br />
analysed amongst which the option of estimation of the country border mode by assignment in<br />
following steps.<br />
4.5.2 Phase II Including transhipment regions on the basis of transhipment<br />
statistics<br />
The identification of transhipment regions is taking place with the help of the available statistics<br />
originating from the national transhipment sources or ports and terminal. The inclusion of inland<br />
terminal information will be considered here as an experiment since no proof of concept is<br />
available.<br />
In this step two transhipment points will be included for intra <strong>ETIS</strong> reference database core area<br />
short sea flows. All collected port flows will be combined into one database. Here double countings<br />
have to be eliminated in the cases where for two ports transhipment data are available and where<br />
these ports have a connecting service; these flows are then registered at both ports.<br />
The port flows are then included in the trade database of step one taking account of all information<br />
included in the data (origin, destination, commodity, modes) and again removing all the double<br />
countings. This way the trade volumes on country to country level are the same as in step 1, but it is<br />
known whether transhipment takes place along the route, where this takes place and from what<br />
mode to what other mode.<br />
4.5.3 Phase III Regional division of countrytocountry totals<br />
The first two steps resulted into information ranging from both the country of origin to the country<br />
of destination. The regional detail is added to the database by means of the different sources<br />
dividing the trade flows over the regions in a country. Countries for which this can be done we will<br />
call A countries. For the other countries to be called B countries, regionalisation can be performed<br />
by using domestic transport statistics (for instance New Cronos). These domestic transport statistics<br />
often only show us the total flows arriving or departing from a region. The remaining countries will<br />
be called C countries. For this last category estimation procedures will be applied which are<br />
developed in ODESTIM and which make use of socioeconomic data (see section 6.6).<br />
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