ASSEMBLING - Assembling a European Network of Monitoring Centres for Transport Infrastructure
Overview
Background & policy context:
European integration has seen dramatic changes in mobility patterns to meet developments in economic activities. However, decision-makers lack information on current patterns of transport activity, and there is only limited knowledge of the impacts of existing policies and investments. Therefore, the European Commission has been promoting the development of a European Transport policy Information System (ETIS). ETIS is intended to provide a central means of access to transport statistics. It could also include a wider range of decentralised information, allowing lessons from past infrastructure projects to be remembered and made available to wider audiences.
Objectives:
The goal of ASSEMBLING was to develop a prototype 'information service' on the use of transport infrastructure for policy-makers across Europe. It would use a web-based system to assemble information coming from a network of regional monitoring centres or observatories. Specific aims were to:
- assemble existing dispersed data and transform it into meaningful information for policy analysts and decision makers;
- guarantee the topicality of information by continual updating;
- present the information in a user-friendly format.
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