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MAY 26, 2005 (newstodate): The EU Commission has opened a tender for a consultant to provide estimation and forecast of short-term trends in passenger and goods transport and of the modal split in the European Union.
Whereas the collection, validation and dissemination of transport performance data takes more than a year, effective policy monitoring calls for shorter time lags before data on the modal split in the EU becomes available.
The Commission is currently calculating estimates for transport performance data by country and for the EU as a whole up to the preceding year.
What is still missing is a methodology to produce an estimate of the modal split in the current year, and a forecast of what it might look like one and two years ahead.
All transport modes (road, rail, inland waterways, pipelines, air and sea for freight; road (passenger cars, powered two-wheelers, buses and coaches), railways, tram and metro lines, air and sea for passengers) have to be covered for all 25 EU Member States, the four candidate countries Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey, and the EFTA countries.
And all this must be completed within 24 months..
Whereas the collection, validation and dissemination of transport performance data takes more than a year, effective policy monitoring calls for shorter time lags before data on the modal split in the EU becomes available.
The Commission is currently calculating estimates for transport performance data by country and for the EU as a whole up to the preceding year.
What is still missing is a methodology to produce an estimate of the modal split in the current year, and a forecast of what it might look like one and two years ahead.
All transport modes (road, rail, inland waterways, pipelines, air and sea for freight; road (passenger cars, powered two-wheelers, buses and coaches), railways, tram and metro lines, air and sea for passengers) have to be covered for all 25 EU Member States, the four candidate countries Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey, and the EFTA countries.
And all this must be completed within 24 months..