United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Transport Division

2010 E-Road and E-Rail Censuses

OuldOuld KhouKhou SIDSID’’AHMEDAHMED

Inland Transport CommitteeInland Transport Committee, 73, 73rd rd sessionsession

11--3 March 20113 March 2011

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March 4, 2011 Slide 2

E-Road Census: a long tradition

• Unique international road census providing comparable data on traffic flows on main European roads

• Important tool for transport policy

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March 4, 2011 Slide 3

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March 4, 2011 Slide 4

Evolution of traffic flows• Comparison between

censuses• Comparison between

countries• Congestion

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Austria; E-Road

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E461

E533

E552

E651

E652

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March 4, 2011 Slide 5

E-Rail Census

• 1st E-rail Census: 2005• Lines in the European Agreement on Main

International Railway Lines (AGC) of 1985• Lines in the European Agreement on

Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC) of 1991

• For EU countries, lines in the Trans-European rail network (TEN) (Decision 1692/96/EC)

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March 4, 2011 Slide 6

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March 4, 2011 Slide 7

2010 E-Road Census• ITC Resolution No. 259: E-Road Traffic Census of

Motor Traffic and Inventory of Standards and Parameters on Main International Traffic Arteries in Europe in 2010 (“2010 E-Road Traffic Census”)

• To inform the secretariat –by 30 September 2009- whether a country agreed to implement the provisions of the resolution

• To provide data before 1 November 2011• Confirmation from : Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey

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March 4, 2011 Slide 8

2010 E-Rail Census• ITC ResolutionNo. 260: E-Rail Traffic Census in

Europe in 2010 (“2010 E-Rail Traffic Census”) • To inform the secretariat –by 30 September 2009-

whether a country agreed to implement the provisions of the resolution

• To provide data before 30 June 2012• Confirmation from: Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey

• Mandatory for EU member States

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UNECE – Transport Division

March 4, 2011 Slide 9

Conclusions• More confirmations from member States

to participate in the censuses are needed

• Complying with the deadlines for the data submission is very important:

• by 1 November 2011 (E-Road Census)• Before 30 June 2012 (E-Rail Census)

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Thank you for your attention

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