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The ETIS framework Dr. Adnan Rahman, RAND Europe
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What is ETIS?

• ETIS stands for European Transport policy
  Information System
• When complete, it will include a
• complete and consistent reference database
• metadata
• methodology for generating missing data and
  calculting indicators
• tool for accessing and retrieving data form the
  reference database
• functionality to maintain the reference database
• capability for accessing and retrieving data from
  decentralized database

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Why ETIS?

• Currently
• Transport policy is supported by one-off
  projects
• There is little consensus about the methods
• Available data is often incomplete and
  inconsistent
• Thus, projects sometimes deliver contradictory
  and conflicting results
• ETIS will help ameliorate this situation by
  providing
• A complete and consistent set of data
• An ability to access and use indicators based on
  this data set
• Complete transparency about the methods and data
• An improved understanding of results based on
  using this data

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The objectives of ETIS

• Support European and national policymakers in
  making of transport policy by providing
• Data and information covering the EU 25
• A consistent and complete set of data
• Metadata
• Tools for accessing, retrieving and using this
  data and information
• Ready access to the most important indicators for
  monitoring certain policies

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The principles underlying the development of ETIS

• Involving stakeholders from the start in the
  development of ETIS
• Building on the imput of experts, policymakers
  and dataproviders
• Transparent process keeping the communication
  between the project partners and the outside open
• Evolutionary and building on the past work and
  links with existing work
• Reliable and state-ofthe art system

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The relationship to EUROSTAT

• ETIS does not replace EUTOSTAT but builds on its
  work
• There is a close cooperation between ETIS project
  partners and EUROSTAT
• The objectives of building an ETIS like tool are
  not realisable within EUROSTAT at the moment
• ETIS includes data not included in the EUTOSTAT
  data sets (more data from national data
  providers, or data from other data providers)
• In the longer term, one option could be for ETIS
  to live inside EUROSTAT

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The ETIS cluster of projects

• The European Commission has funded three projects
  to develop a pilot version of ETIS
• The scope is the demonstration of the
  functionalities of a complete ETIS
• The main components are the reference database
  and the software agent
• The focus of the pilot is limited regarding the
  geographical area and the indicator information
  provided

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Next steps on the way to ETIS

• Developing a prototype of the pilot by March 2004
• Presenting the prototype at the second Open
  Conference in May 2004
• Testing the functionalities of the prototype with
  a user group
• Using the input from the testing phase to refine
  the functionalities of the pilot
• Completing the reference database

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The ETIS prototype

• The ETIS prototype will
• Be ready in March 2004
• Build on the TEN STAC data
• Be focused on a set of TEN corridors
• Provide a limited set of indicators that are
  supported by the available data

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The ETIS pilot

• ETIS pilot will
• Be ready by the middle of 2005
• Focus on the TEN corridors
• Provide a set of 29 indicators for monitoring
  developments on these corridors
• Provide access to the complete reference database
• Provide the general remote retrieval
  functionality to access other datasources
  available in the future

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The future of ETIS

• Tool for the European Commission
• Tool for national policymakers
• Tool for transport modellers
• Expansion of the ETIS pilot to a complete ETIS
  (e.g. inclusion of new data)

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Some important dates

• 5 March 2004, ETIS workshop on demand data
• 14 May 2004, Second Open Conference
• Presentation of the ETIS prototype

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• Dr. Adnan Rahman
• rahman_at_rand.org
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• www.etis-link.info