MOTOS - Transport Modelling: Towards Operational Standards in Europe
Overview
Background & policy context:
The process of integrating transport policies within the enlarged Union was a challenging issue for the New EU Member States. Transport policy tools of the New EU Member States had to be developed and integrated within the European model tools, to ensure consistency and common understanding of strategic policy issues. In order to achieve a common understanding, best practices in modelling techniques had to be exchanged and disseminated.
Objectives:
The European Commission 6th Framework programme project.
The high level objective of the MOTOS project was to support transport policy in Europe by defining common good practice principles for national and regional transport modelling that satisfy immediate needs of model developers in the New EU Member States and contribute to the establishment of a standardized approach for transport modelling in the European Union. The MOTOS project put considerable effort into determining user needs from model developers and policy makers. This user needs analysis was reinforced by targeted workshops in the new member states. In continuation, MOTOS identifies and described best practices and common pitfalls in setting up, enhancing and linking national and regional transport models. Common best practice principles were defined for the most important processes identified in the user needs analysis. User involvement was central in the MOTOS approach. At the start of the project a Steering Group of users was established. This group provided feedback on draft versions of the project outputs.
Methodology:
The MOTOS project put considerable effort into determining user needs from model developers and policy makers. This user needs analysis was reinforced by targeted workshops in the New EU Member States. In continuation, MOTOS identified and described best practices and common pitfalls in setting up, enhancing and linking national and regional transport models. Common best practice principles were defined for the most important processes identified in the user needs analysis. The outcomes of the research were presented in a MOTOS handbook for transport modelling that is also available in an on-line navigable version.
User involvement was central in the MOTOS approach. At the start of the project a Steering Group of users was established. This group provided feedback on draft versions of the project outputs. A contact database of users in EU25 was maintained and users were regularly informed and invited to download the project outputs from the MOTOS website. The final conclusions were presented at a final conference in Hungary and further distributed through the website.
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