KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association Brussels, BELGIUM 13 May 2011

ETISplus Road Data Workshop

TRANS-TOOLS : Road data gaps

ECKHARD SZIMBA (KIT-IWW), NICOLÁS IBAÑEZ-RIVAS (JRC-IPTS) INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH (IWW), NETWORK ECONOMICS

www.kit.edu

Agenda

Brief overview of the TRANS-TOOLS model

General features Structure and modules

Road data gaps and challenges Conclusions 2

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TRANS-TOOLS: Road Data Gaps and Challenges Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

TRANS-TOOLS : General Features (I)

TOOLS

for

TR

ansport forecasting

AN

d

S

cenario testing Transport demand and assessment model developed on behalf of the

European Commission

by European project consortia: 2005-08: TRANS-TOOLS project (6 th FP) 2008-09: TEN Connect 1 project (MOVE B1) 2010-11: TEN Connect 2 project (MOVE B1) current version: recalibration, more efficient computation 2011-13: TRANS-TOOLS v3 (7 th FP)

Other recent EU projects

related to TRANS-TOOLS developments: iTREN, WORLDNET, ETISplus IBU Øresund, Baltic Transport Outlook

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TRANS-TOOLS : General Features (II)

Funding

and

coordination

: DG TREN/ MOVE (A.3/B.1) Joint Research Centre (JRC), IPTS, Seville

Aim: Consolidation

of European transport demand and assessment models and

integration

of the available European models on a common platform ›Proprietary‹ and Intellectual

property right free

(IPR) reference model by the European Commission for the assessment of transport policy measures

Analogy

to models of other sectors: PRIMES/ POLES – Energy TREMOVE/ RAINS (GAINS) – Environment

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TRANS-TOOLS : General Features (III)

Main model

for transport policy analysis in the EC

Consistency

to the EU Transport Policy Information System ETIS

Geographical scope

: 42 countries Circa 300 NUTS-2 regions (trade/ logistics/ freight model, regional economic model) Circa 1,300 NUTS-3 regions (passenger transport model)

Modes

of transport: Passenger transport: road/ rail/ air Freight transport: road/ rail/ inland waterways/ maritime

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TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models 6

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TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models

Passenger transport 7

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TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models Passenger transport

Freight transport and logistics 8

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TRANS-TOOLS: Road Data Gaps and Challenges Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models Passenger transport Freight transport and logistics

Regional economic model 9

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TRANS-TOOLS: Road Data Gaps and Challenges Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models Passenger transport Freight transport and logistics Regional economic model

Traffic assignment 10

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TRANS-TOOLS: Road Data Gaps and Challenges Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models Passenger transport Freight transport and logistics Regional economic model Traffic assignment

External effects 11

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TRANS-TOOLS v1: Modules and structure

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models Passenger transport Freight transport and logistics Regional economic model Traffic assignment External effects

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TRANS-TOOLS v1: Feedback Loop

Input data: Socio-economic data, Network models Passenger transport Freight transport and logistics Regional economic model Traffic assignment External effects

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Road Data Gaps and Challenges – Network, impedance and demand data 14 Traffic count

data Scope of availability of traffic count data Differentiation of traffic count data by type of vehicle (currently AADT without differentiation) Differentiation by time slice (peak/ off-peak) Long-distance

coach services

Level-of-Service (frequencies, travel times, costs) Alignment of routes Demand Demand data at the

level

of origin/ destination (O/D) relations Data on

freight terminals

(logistic centres/ distribution centres) Data on

vehicle use

, e.g. load factors, empty runs, occupancy rates Data for

neighbouring countries

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Availability of traffic count data

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Example of availability of traffic count data

Detail of road counts for

Andalusia

: Comparison with publicly available count data Percentage of HGV Split of the total count across time bands (peak, off-peak)

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Conclusions

Most prominent data gaps are ‘observed‘ demand data Level of O/D relations Level of network links Level of freight terminals Importance of traffic count data Differentiation by type of vehicle Transparency regarding original data sources and methodology of implementation Long-distance coach market, a market highly dependent on country-specific regulatory settings => well-elaborated level-of-service analyses required to model long-distance coach services accurately Supporting TRANS TOOLS‘ capabilities to cover transport flows between EU and neighbouring countries

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Thank you for your attention.

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Eckhard Szimba, Ph.D.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) Network Economics

[email protected]

Nicolás Ibañez-Rivas, Ph.D.

European Commission, JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

[email protected]

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TRANS-TOOLS: Road Data Gaps and Challenges Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)