Transcript The ETIS framework Dr. Adnan Rahman, RAND Europe

The ETIS framework
Dr. Adnan Rahman, RAND Europe
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
ETIS
Project officer
Contract
Finance
Deliverables
Contract
Finance
Deliverables
ETIS
external
partners
ETIS-LINK management structure
ETIS
developers
Vetting
Steering Group
Pilot Testers
Workshops
Management
ETIS-BASE
Pilot Users
Co-ordinator
Steering
Members
Joint timetable
Partners
EU Member States
Open
Conferences
Management
Interface
Position papers
Development
Management
ETIS-AGENT
Secretariat
Information
Dissemination
Exploitation
Accession States
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
The objectives of ETIS
– Support European and national
policymakers in making of transport policy
by providing:
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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
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-of–the art system
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
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
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
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
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
The future of ETIS
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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)
Some important dates
• 5 March 2004, ETIS workshop on
demand data
• 14 May 2004, Second Open Conference
– Presentation of the ETIS prototype
Dr. Adnan Rahman
[email protected]
Tel: +31715245180
Fax: +31715245191
www.etis-link.info