ETIS BASE: Core database development for the European transport policy information system

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0110

Key words (English)

Economic Aspects; Evaluation; Social Aspects; Transport

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: GMA2/2000/32051 SI2

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.2 Sustainable mobility and intermodality

Short description (English)

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Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ETH Zürich
Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)

Abstract (English)

The ETIS-BASE proposal responds to key action 2, Sustainable Mobility and Inter-modality^TM, objective 2.1, Socio-economic scenarios for mobility of people and goods^TM, task 2.1.1/9, ,Development of a European Transport policy Information System (ETIS) as a basis for transport planning and policy formulation^TM. The task is separated into three sub-tasks. ETIS-BASE addresses sub-task 2, the development of a reference database for the modelling element^TM.

The specific objectives of ETIS-BASE 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.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0110