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D5 Annex WP 7: ETIS DATABASE METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE USER
MANUAL – PASSENGER TRANSPORT SUPPLY
4.3.6 Passenger travel time and direct costs short­sea shipping
LOS and cost data for short­sea shipping links have been retrieved by the consultation of
various sources. Following two publications have been the basis:
· “Fähren in Europa” – ferries in Europe
· DB Kursbuch Europa – European timetable, published by German Rail (DB AG)
While the first reference contains information on frequencies, travel times and tariffs, the latter
contains only information on frequencies and travel times. Where necessary and possible,
missing information has been completed by data on the Internet site of ferry companies. The
Internet sites consulted for extracting further information are listed in section 4.2.1.
As regards the scope of the data collection following data have been collected per ferry link:
number of connections, travel time, tariff per person, passenger car, camper/ trailer and, where
applicable and available, tariff per cabin. For the calculation of the direct travel costs on a ferry
link the considered tariff embraces the carriage of a passenger car and two persons.
Several ferry links are operated by several operators, or by the same operator with different
types of ferries. For such links the reference LOS and tariff data have been estimated by an
average value, weighted by the number of connections the particular operators provide.
The cost and LOS data for short­sea shipping have been being raised at country level, not at
O/D level.
The printed timetables mentioned above provide information for 304 ferry links in Europe;
some ferry links are operated by several companies – thus the number of services taken into
account is slightly higher (388). 181 out of the 304 ferry links could be allocated to ferry links
in the GISCO road network of the year 2000. However, especially ferry services to Greek
islands and other ferry services in the Aegean Sea are missing in the two data sources
mentioned above. The retrieval of data for ferry links within Greek and from other countries to
Greek islands as well as for further links in the Aegean Sea has been the most important task
within the last weeks with respect to passenger ferry level­of­service data. The Internet has
proven as the most important medium for the investigation of data for tariffs and the level­ofservice
for ferry connections on the Aegean Sea (see also list of Internet links in section 4.2.1).
The ferry links of the GISCO road network, for which level­of­service and costs data have been
made available (152), are pictured on the following map (Figure 4.9).
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