Exploitable results INFOSTAT INFOSTAT is born from the premises that no adequate statistical tool exists at the European level which provides decision-makers with appropriate information in the field of transport and policy. The INFOSTAT study is to prepare the framework of statistics of a European Transport policy Information System (so-called ETIS) which is necessary for an understanding of changes in mobility, logistic patterns and of the effects of policy tools. INFOSTAT covers the first 3 Tasks of Strategic Transport Research in the Fourth Framework Programme. In Task 1 a common system of basic principles, definitions and data standards for a European ETIS has been developed. Task 2 summarises to which degree available data are appropriate, whilst Task 3 drafts a scheme for immediate actions to eliminate information gaps. In its approach of conceptual definitions for the future ETIS, INFOSTAT study has focused on the creation of new statistical concepts which are needed to understand changes in transport system; this is a prerequisite for a successful achievement of the objectives of the present and future CTP (sustainable mobility, Trans-European Transport Networks, cost-efficient transport system, intermodality). It was clear that the old statistical concepts of the 1950s are not sufficient to support the achievement of European transport policy objectives. These new concepts developed by INFOSTAT with a European dimension are dealing with: - infrastructural and environmental bottlenecks, - economic corridor concept, - advanced accessibility concepts, - the transport chain concept, - the concept of intermodality, - the concepts of logistic families and transport quality. In a second phase INFOSTAT investigated in detail the extent to which existing information is relevant for developing the future ETIS system. ETIS in this context satisfies the subsidiarity principle, by optimising the use of existing statistical information of the Member States of the EU. The current data situation is complex and heterogeneous: there are quite satisfactory data sources describing the determinants of transport at one side, but at the other side for a number of core elements of the ETIS catalogue, no appropriate data source exist today. In a third phase INFOSTAT study examined the possible schemes to be developed in order to eliminate the most important gaps issued from the confrontation between needs and existing information. Clearly some of these gaps relate to the lack of information for intermodality, although it constitutes a core element of the Common Transport Policy. A pilot part of the INFOSTAT has been devoted to build up a statistical database connected particularly to those flows relevant for intermodality. This attempt is unique in so far it succeeded in making use of existing and dispelled information; the methodology recently developed by NEA to build up a database of transport chains of goods flows was successively tested on the relations with Nordic countries. Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
