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D5 Annex WP 7: ETIS DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER
MANUAL – PASSENGER TRANSPORT SUPPLY
4.2.2 Status of purchase of data sources
The negotiations concerning the air tariff database are ongoing. A first set of test data has been
made available. Hafas has been contacted for the European rail timetable information.
Eurocontrol needs to be contacted officially by the European Commission based on the existing
Memorandum of Understanding, in order to allow ETIS the access to data on flight movements.
Eurocontrol shall be suggested to provide the flight data of at least the year 2003 under
confidentiality
restrictions. These data set will be used for the compilation of the air service data and in order to
validate the air flows internally.
For all other data sets the acquisition is centrally organised by the co­ordinator.
4.2.3 Temporal and spatial scope of data generation and calculation in WP 7
The geographical scope of the data retrieval in WP 7 embraces the extended European Union
(EU25) and the EFTA countries Switzerland and Norway.
With regard to the reference year the, following problem exists: Some LOS and cost data (e.g.
rail tariffs), which are mainly provided on the Internet, are available in a detailed format for the
presence only. Therefore, in such cases the reference year is the year 2003, which has the
advantage of allowing considering the most recent developments in tariff schemes. In order to
apply a consistent structure of costs and services the year 2003 will be used as a basis.
Using the base year 2003 for the LOS data has several advantages: first, the service
pattern of the emerging market of low cost carriers can be taken into account; second, in
the period of time between 2000 and 2003 important rail links, with tremendous impacts
on service pattern, have been taken into operation (e.g. high­speed rail line Frankfurt –
Cologne, high­speed rail line Lyon – Marseille, high­speed rail line Brussels – Liège). Not
taking into account the recent developments in the air and rail market would neglect
important evolutions on the European passenger transport market.
The LOS of transport providers, especially for ferries and air, is considerably subject to seasonal
variations; therefore September has been used as reference month, which by representing a
period of time, which does neither belong to a peak season, nor to a post season, well indicates a
year’s average supply level.
The final delivery of data will be done at the level of NUTS 2.
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