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D5 Annex WP 3: DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER
MANUAL – FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND
5.4.4 Data availability in the accession countries
Since these countries have become member of the EU from May 2004, the collection of data in
these countries will change since they have to apply the Eurostat directives. In ETIS a
repeatable method has to be developed, therefore it makes no sense to spend a lot of time and
budget in using the available data for the accession countries and apply and develop methods
and models to fill the data gaps while it is known that the data situation in these countries will
change significantly in the near future. The data collection process in the accession countries
was very time consuming, it is a hard job to get in contact with the right persons at the different
institutes, data is not available on the required level of detail and limited response has been
received. Because of these reasons it has been decided to make use of a combination of results
from the ‘Traffic Forecast of the Ten Pan­European Transport Corridors of Helsinki’ project,
the INTERMODA project, NEAC, the TEN­STAC project, UN data and data already available
for the accession countries to estimate the transport flows within and in relation with the
accession countries. Once the Eurostat directives are applied in the accession countries the same
methodology as for the current EU countries can be applied in order to build the freight O/D
matrix.
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