D5 Annex report WP 3: ETIS Database methodology ... - ETIS plus

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D5 Annex WP 3: DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER MANUAL – FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND · Destination (region, country) · Commodities, · Modes (at the national border, EU border, at origin, at destination?), · Containerisation, · Weight · Value · Route information: • border crossing • transhipment sea ports • transhipment other terminal(s) These variables should be collected in as much detail as possible. The ideal situation would be that all information needed to describe transport would be available from the trade registrations. Unfortunately this is not expected to be found. It should be attempted to come as close as possible to the ideal situation. Elements like region to region information or transhipment locations are unfortunately only available in very limited and/or fragmented cases. The following priority list can be followed for origin destination data: 1. Region to region 2. Region to country 3. Country to country In the top­down approach of the NEAC model country to country data has been used from the COMEXT database since this is consistent for all EU countries. Region to country trade data from national sources is then used to include the regional detail. The following sources are considered: · EUROSTAT COMEXT · National trade data for all core countries · UN trade data 5.2.2 Transport data Transport data can be used for different purposes in the top­down approach and should be collected for all modes. All other variables mentioned under the trade flows should also be considered here as much as possible. The first distinction to be made is: · International transport · Domestic transport · Container or Loading units flows 32 Document2 27 May 2004

D5 Annex WP 3: DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER MANUAL – FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND If trade data is available but excluding regional detail then regional international transport information can be used to estimate the regional detail. Here the following priority list can be used: 1. Region to region 2. Region to country 3. Country to country International transport data without regional detail are not of use for a top­down database construction approach. Only in case of a database estimation procedure aggregated international transport data can be very useful. This has to be considered in case no other data can be found. Domestic transport data has the following priority list: 1. Region to region 2. Region incoming and region outgoing 3. Country total The following transport data sources are considered: · EUROSTAT New Cronos · National transport data sources 5.2.3 Maritime transhipment data This type of transhipment information is best known for the major ports or port countries in Europe. For these ports very reliable and complete information used to be available. After 1992 the availability and quality of this type of data has decreased or the data are not available anymore (information about ports and modes have become optional for intra­EU flows in the Intrastat system). For other ports in the EU availability of data has always been limited. It has to be attempted to find alternative useful sources to fill this data gap. Currently Eurostat collects port­to­port data from the Member States according to the Maritime Directive (see ”Council directive 95/64/EC of 8 December 1995 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea”). By the end of the testing method, a request has been made to EUROSTAT by DGTREN to make the data available for the construction of the ETIS reference database. The data have not been received yet at moment of writing. When the data becomes available, it will be used in the methods. This data contains no information about transhipment, but it does contain information about goods loaded and unloaded in ports in relation with partner ports. The following maritime transhipment data sources are considered: · National transhipment data sources · Ports Document2 27 May 2004 33

<strong>D5</strong> <strong>Annex</strong> <strong>WP</strong> 3: DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER MANUAL –<br />

FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND<br />

· Destination (region, country)<br />

· Commodities,<br />

· Modes (at the national border, EU border, at origin, at destination?),<br />

· Containerisation,<br />

· Weight<br />

· Value<br />

· Route information:<br />

• border crossing<br />

• transhipment sea ports<br />

• transhipment other terminal(s)<br />

These variables should be collected in as much detail as possible. The ideal situation would be<br />

that all information needed to describe transport would be available from the trade registrations.<br />

Unfortunately this is not expected to be found. It should be attempted to come as close as<br />

possible to the ideal situation. Elements like region to region information or transhipment<br />

locations are unfortunately only available in very limited and/or fragmented cases.<br />

The following priority list can be followed for origin destination data:<br />

1. Region to region<br />

2. Region to country<br />

3. Country to country<br />

In the top­down approach of the NEAC model country to country data has been used from the<br />

COMEXT database since this is consistent for all EU countries. Region to country trade data<br />

from national sources is then used to include the regional detail.<br />

The following sources are considered:<br />

· EUROSTAT COMEXT<br />

· National trade data for all core countries<br />

· UN trade data<br />

5.2.2 Transport data<br />

Transport data can be used for different purposes in the top­down approach and should be<br />

collected for all modes. All other variables mentioned under the trade flows should also be<br />

considered here as much as possible. The first distinction to be made is:<br />

· International transport<br />

· Domestic transport<br />

· Container or Loading units flows<br />

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Document2<br />

27 May 2004

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