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European Transport Policy Information System (ETIS) will provide policy-makers and policy analysts with the capability to include the European dimension in monitoring and analysing developments in European transport related strategic issues concerning infrastructure investments, forecasts, projects and policy impact assessments.

The ETIS projects will develop a pilot European Transport Information System using the Trans-European Networks-Transport (TEN-T) as the basis for the pilot.

ETIS will have two main functions: first, to navigate the user through existing national transport data sources with accompanying information on their comparability; second to provide an interface which allows the production of comparable data across countries for different years.

ETIS will comprise four elements: a data element, an analytical modelling element, a GIS and a final element interfacing users with the above elements.

The formation of ETIS has been sub-divided into 3 tasks:

• ETIS-LINK is a thematic network that will guide the development of the ETIS and promote this to potential users in the European Commission and in the Member States.
• ETIS-BASE will develop the core-database of the ETIS. It will work towards building a consensus view of the reference pan-European transport modelling data set. It will develop an open methodology to generate a version of a data set from existing international and national sources.
• ETIS-AGENT will define the interface element of ETIS and its associated tools. It will undertake design, initial implementation and validation of a flexible, scalable and open transport data Agent.