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D5 Annex WP 3: DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER
MANUAL – FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND
2 OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIC ASPECTS
The work on the ETIS reference database responds to key action 2, ‘Sustainable Mobility and
Inter­modality’, objective 2.1 ‘Socio­economic scenarios for mobility of people and goods’,
task 2.1.1/9, ‘Development of a European Transport policy Information System (ETIS) as a
basis for transport planning and policy formulation’. The task is separated into three sub­tasks.
The ETIS reference database addresses sub­task 2, ‘the development of a reference database for
the modelling element’.
The objectives of ETIS reference database are:
1. To contribute to the building of a consensus view of the reference pan European transport
modelling data set.
2. To develop an open methodology to generate a version of such a set from existing
international and national sources.
3. To produce a first compilation of the data set by applying the methodology mentioned
above, as on­line database.
During the kick­off of the project it has been decided by the European Commission that within
this project the work should focus on:
1. the development of an ETIS for TEN­T policies,
2. the procedures and data should face especially a monitoring of the TEN­T corridors,
3. the geographic scope has to be adjusted to the forthcoming 10 new members,
4. the PAN European scope has to be defined along the geographic hemispheres,
5. the degree of detail in general can be reduced including a concentration upon a few
indicators mentioned in the white paper,
6. the results have to be available for further use within the GETIS system,
7. the work tasks and responsibilities have to be adjusted in respect of the new focus and the
limited budget.
The reference database of ETIS will serve a various series of TEN­T policy issues: the level of
detail and the variables will be appropriate for this purpose. It will allow obtaining in an
accurate way the performance and the impacts (environmental, economic) of transport, as well
as the traffic at specific nodes or links of the networks. But the internal structure of the database
will allow proceeding easily to any aggregation in order to get a compact view of transport
performance (vehicle­kms etc) and effects (emissions level, energy consumption by mode etc).
The work organisation of ETIS reference database is established in close co­operation with the
external promotion 2 and contacts of ETIS. As part of this external promotion, support to the
development of the ETIS reference database is an essential element.
There are several aspects on which synchronisation of the two projects take place:
2 Promotion work is covered by the ETIS­LINK project
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