EU Transport Statistics – Eurostat Guidelines on Passengers Mobility
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g EU Transport Statistics Eurostat guidelines on Passenger Mobility Statistics December 2018 Table of contents Table of contents Background ......................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction and overview ......................................................................................... 4 1.1. Background for data collection on passenger mobility statistics ............................................ 4 1.2. Drafting of Eurostat Guidelines ................................................................................................... 4 1.3. Document structure ...................................................................................................................... 5 2. Definitions used in these guidelines ......................................................................... 6 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Terminology for urban and short distance mobility .................................................................. 6 2.3 Definitions related to medium- and long-distance travel with overnight stay ....................... 16 2.4 Specific terminology: “urban area” and “urban mobility” ...................................................... 20 2.5 Quality and mobility indicators .................................................................................................. 24 2.5.1 Quality indicators 24 2.5.2 Passenger mobility indicators 25 3. Recommendations on a harmonised set of passenger mobility indicators ..........28 3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 28 3.2 Passenger mobility indicators for urban and short distance .................................................. 29 3.3 Passenger mobility indicators for medium and long distance ............................................... 36 4. Recommendations on methodology ........................................................................40 4.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 40 4.2 Reference population .................................................................................................................. 41 4.3 Sampling ...................................................................................................................................... 42 4.4 Survey methodology ................................................................................................................... 45 4.5 Data collection protocol for a cross-sectional survey ............................................................. 50 4.6 Data collection protocol for retrospective surveys .................................................................. 57 4.7 Data quality: processing and provision .................................................................................... 58 5. Method of ex-post harmonisation of existing national survey results ..................67 5.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 67 5.2 Ex-post harmonisation methodologies ..................................................................................... 67 6. Mobility questionnaires - recommendations ...........................................................69 6.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 69 6.2 Background questions ................................................................................................................ 70 6.3 Model questionnaire for the one-day/cross-sectional survey ................................................. 72 6.4 Destination coding and distance verification approach .......................................................... 76 6.5 Model questionnaire for the retrospective survey ................................................................... 77 Annex 1: Questions asked .................................................................................................81 Annex 2: Differences and similarities between MSs’ data collection practices and collected indicators ............................................................................................................87 Annex 3: Sample questionnaires .................................................................................... 103 Guidelines on Passenger Mobility statistics 1 List of abbreviations List of abbreviations CAPI: Computer Assisted Personal Interview CATI: Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing CAWI: Computer Assisted Web Interview CNG: Compressed Natural Gas EV: Electric Vehicle EC: European Commission EFTA: European Free Trade Association EU: European Union F2F: Face to face interviews FUA: Functional Urban Area GHG: Greenhouse Gas GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System (e.g. the European Galileo or the American GPS) ITF: International Transport Forum LAU: Local Administrative Unit LPG: Liquefied Petroleum Gas MiD: Mobilität in Deutschland (The German NTS) MOP: German Mobilitäts Panel (The German Mobility panel) MS: Member State NSI: National Statistical Institute NTS: National Travel Survey NUTS: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics OECD: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PAPI: Paper-and-Pencil Interviewing UNECE: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Guidelines on Passenger Mobility statistics 2 0 Background Background Passenger mobility statistics are not currently part of the regulated European Statistical System. There is no regular and harmonised data collection in the field of road passenger traffic statistics as already exists for other modes of transport such as rail, air or maritime transport in accordance with legal acts. However, with an increasing need for monitoring the development in passenger mobility linked to the European Union transport policies Eurostat is making efforts to develop harmonised methodology to assess passenger mobility in EU. The Guidelines at hand are a result of the effort to develop a methodology for this purpose. These guidelines are developed in cooperation with the members of the Task Force on Passenger Mobility Statistics, which has been set up for this purpose. They are based on the conclusions of a Eurostat Seminar on Passenger Mobility held in 2013 and they are drawing on input from other relevant projects such as the COST/SHANTI and the EU 7 th Framework project OPTIMISM. The current document is an updated version of the Reference Manual developed in 2014-2015, which includes remarks from Task Force on Passenger Mobility Statistics and the Coordination Group for Statistics Transport (CGST). The actual version of the guidelines is the result of the following steps: • An information collection round from relevant projects such as COST/SHANTI and OPTIMISM. • The analysis of existing data on passenger mobility statistics available at Eurostat. • Information received from the Eurostat Seminar on Passenger Mobility (2013). An analysis of requirements from DG MOVE. • An analysis of existing data collection practices through National Travel Surveys or similar. • The analysis of remarks received from the Task Force Meeting on Passenger Mobility Statistics, which took place in Luxembourg on the 10 th of April 2014, as a result of a first presentation of information. • Collected remarks from Member States as a result of the Coordination Group for Statistics Transport (CGST) in July 2015 • The analysis of remarks and comments provided before, during and after the second Task Force Meeting on May 21 st 2015 • Remarks from the Task Force Meeting on April 28 th 2016 • Results from the Grants on passenger mobility from July 2015 and July 2016 • Remarks from the Task Force Meeting on September 21 st 2017 • Remarks made during the Task Force Meeting on October 11 th 2018. Under the preparation of the guidelines a main information source for the Guidelines is contained in Chapter 3 of the COST/SHANTI final report (Armoogum et al., 2014), where an overview is presented of "Recommendations for Obtaining Comparable Results from National Travel Surveys". The recommendations therein are compared and completed with the findings from several studies done by Agilis (including the metadata questionnaire findings), the UNECE handbook on statistics on road traffic and Work Package 2 from the FP7-OPTIMISM project (Deliverables 2.2 and 2.3). Guidelines on Passenger Mobility statistics 3 Introduction and overview 1 1. Introduction and overview 1.1. Background for data collection on passenger mobility statistics There is an increasing need for relevant information to be collected on passenger mobility so that the European Union policies linked to this specific transport activity can be properly monitored. First of all it is important to be able to follow the development in relation to two of the goals stated in the European Commission 2011 Transport White Paper 1, 1) halve the use of conventionally-fuelled cars in urban transport by 2030 and phase them out in cities by 2050, and 2) to have the majority of medium-distance passenger transport to go by rail by 2050. Passenger mobility surveys or National Travel Surveys (NTS) exist