1. Statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road
Nikolaos Roubanis
Transport Statistics
Unit – E6

2. Structure Data collection on road freight
Legal provisions on access to road freight data
Outline of the project: ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’

3. Data collection on road freight
Legal basis: Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road
Scope: Each MS (EU and EEA) shall compile statistics on the carriage of goods by means of goods road transport vehicles which are registered in that MS
Malta is exempted until the umber of road vehicles licensed to engage in the international carriage of goods does not exceed 400

4. Data collection on road freight
Frequency: quarterly, 5 months after the end of the reference period
Data collection in MS is based on surveys (Eurostat receives micro data)
Dataset A1: Vehicle related variables
Axle configuration
Age
Maximum permissible weight
Load capacity
Vehicle operator’s NACE (optional)
Type of transport (hired or reward/own account
Total km covered (loaded and empty)
Vehicle weighting

5. Data collection on road freight
Data set A2: Journey-related variables
Type of journey (laden, unladen)
Weight of goods
Place of loading/unloading
Distance travelled
Countries crossed in transit
Data set A3: Goods-related variables
Type of goods

6. Data collection on road freight
What we know for each country for the trucks registered in that country?
Place of loading
NUTS 3
Place of unloading
Distance and
Tonne km
Countries of
transit
Type and
Weight of goods

7. Legal provisions on access to road freight data
Regulation (EC) No 202/2010 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road
“Researchers and the scientific community in general should have access for scientific purposes to the data transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation (EC) No 1172/98*, according to the principle laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 3 ) on European statistics.”

8. The project ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’
Objectives
Develop an anonymisation method in collaboration with Member States
Produce the anonymised dataset
Produce a user manual to accompany data (method, quality, etc.)
Provide the means to Eurostat to anonymise updated microdata

9. The project ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’
Task 1
Inventory of national methods
Proposal of the best suited EU method
Presentation to the Road Freight Working Party for feedback (10 October 2012)
Documentation of final method to be presented to the Coordination Group for statistics on Transport (3-4 December 2012)

10. The project ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’
Task 2
Produce the anonymised dataset
Draft the reference manuals
Project duration
Starting date: May 2012
Duration:10 months

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