TRANS-TOOLS: TOOLS for Transport forecasting And Scenario testing.

Project Funding

The TRANS-TOOLS project was funded by the European Commission (DG Mobility & Transport) under the 6th RTD Programme.

Project summary

The objective of the TRANS-TOOLS project was the establishment of a ›proprietary‹ Intellectual property right (IPR) free reference model by the European Commission for the assessment of transport policy measures. For this purpose, a network-based tool was developed by integrating different European transport demand and assessment models on a common software platform. The TRANS-TOOLS model consists of following modules: passenger demand module, freight demand module, logistics module, traffic assignment module, regional economic module and external impacts. A major target of TRANS-TOOLS was to obtain consistency with the EU’s Transport Policy Information System ETIS.

IWW’s main responsibility was the contribution of the passenger demand module to the TRANS-TOOLS system.

Consortium

• TNO, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research Building and Construction Research, Delft, Netherland (co-ordinator)
• NEA Transport Research and Training, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
• TRT, Trasporti e Territorio Srl, Milan, Italy
• IWW, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
• CTT, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
• ISIS, Instituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi, Rome, Italy
• IPTS, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain
• CAU, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany