ETIS-BASE - Core Database Development for the European Transport policy Information System (ETIS)
Overview
Background & policy context:
ETIS-BASE is organised under the umbrella of key action 2 of the fifth Framework program of the European Commission, 'Sustainable Mobility and Inter-modality', objective 2.1 'Socio-economic scenarios for mobility of people and goods' and task 2.1.1/9, 'Development of a European Transport policy Information System (ETIS) as a basis for transport planning and policy formulation'. Other parts of the work are covered by: ETIS-LINK (promotion) and ETIS-AGENT (software tool).
The characteristics of current policies possibly assessed by ETIS are a guideline for the kind of information the reference database has to provide; these are:
- Measuring the extent of Community interest of infrastructure and others projects;
- Dealing with the enlargement of the EU;
- Addressing sections or corridors confronted with severe congestion problems;
- Related to the planning of new infrastructure;
- Making Europe close to the citizen.
Objectives:
The objectives of ETIS reference database are:
- To contribute to the building of a consensus view of the reference pan European transport modelling data set;
- To develop an open methodology to generate a version of such a set from existing international and national sources;
- To produce a first compilation of the data set by applying the methodology mentioned above, as on-line database.
During the kick-off of the project it has been decided by the European Commission that within this project the work should focus on:
- The development of an ETIS for TEN-T policies;
- the procedures and data should face especially a monitoring of the TEN-T corridors;
- the geographic scope has to be adjusted to the forthcoming 10 new members;
- the PAN European scope has to be defined along the geographic hemispheres;
- the degree of detail in general can be reduced including a concentration upon a few indicators mentioned in the white paper
- the results have to be available for further use within the GETIS system;
- the work tasks and responsibilities have to be adjusted in respect of the new focus and the limited budget.
Methodology:
The work plan of ETIS followed a four-phase approach:
- Phase 0: State-of-the-art; here all available material from previous projects is collected and classified;
- Phase 1: Development of a re-usable methodology to generate the data sets from known and available sources;
- Phase 2: Testing phase of ETIS on selected corridors Phase 3: Pilot version of ETIS.
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