ETISplus Seminar Brussels Thomas Spiegel Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology CAFT Dissemination

CAFT History  1994 FR, CH, AT: First common Data Base on Transalpine Freight Transport, partly based on already existing data.  1999 FR, CH, AT: harmonised survey.  2004 Common Approach of Alpine Countries (Zurich Prozess)  2009 (AT, CH) / 2010 (FR, new: SI)

What is CAFT: CAFT Method Roadside interviews collect information at major Alpine passes on :  Trips (points of loading/unloading, route...)  Goods transported (tonnage, type of commodity...)  Vehicles (country of registration, type of lorry...) Toll Statistics or Automatic Traffic Counts provide information on total traffic Comparable data are obtained from Railway undertakings All data are gathered in a common database according to a standardised format

Ventmiglia Mt. Blanc Gotthard Brenner Tauern Schober Semmering Wechsel Fréjus Mio. Tonnes What is CAFT: Results

„What“ is CAFT: Products?  National Publications.  Exchange file + description („data base“)  Webpage of Zurich Process Results + queries

„Who“ is CAFT?  Agreement of Ministers of Alpine Countries for common data collection (Zurich Process).  ≠ Alpine Observatory (EU Swiss agreement on land transport)  Coordinated approach, but no real „leadership“ (no „buerau of CAFT“)  Commonly agreed rules for dissemination

Rules for dissemination „Controlled free dissemination“  National CAFT-Partners as dissemination points.  Agreement between data holder and data user: –Data available for projects –No further dissemination –Information on results –No commercial interest –No unbalanced consultant market Currently, it would not meet the expectations of the CAFT partners to put the full CAFT data file as free download on internet!

Rules for dissemination „Controlled free dissemination“  Arguments against a full free dissemination: –Road – sample based approach: expert knowledge for interpretation necessary. –Rail: confidentiality concerns: railway enterprises as partner in CAFT, not as respondents obliged to answer! –Sustainability of CAFT-Survey: railway data are one critical element: clear conditions for railway enterprises how the data are used.

Possibilities for dissemination: CAFT data within ETISplus? (proposal to be discussed with CAFT-partners)  Access to aggregated data (e.g. according to CAFT- web pages).  Access to integrated data sets, where CAFT is only one input.  Rules similar to data access to Eurostat data.  “E-solution” of current approach-> registered, accepted users only, “Sign” agreement (terms of use), information of each download to CAFT partners.  Create Win-Win Solution!

Summing up  YES, CAFT data should be used by scientific community and planners in the best possible way.  NO, an unlimited access to detailed CAFT seems not acceptable. Third parties should not take profit from dissemination of CAFT data.  Proposal from ETISPlus for data dissemination are welcome, but have to be agreed by CAFT partners.

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