COST-355

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COST-355WATCH

• Changing behaviour towards
• a more sustainable transport demand
• Joyce Dargay
• 19 September 2006

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What is COST?

• Promotes European COoperation in the field of
  Scientific and Technical research
• COST-Action trans-national research network
• Co-ordination of nationally funded research
  activities
• Provides funding for meetings and short-term
  scientific missions
• Funded by EU and ESF
• Submission of proposals through an open call

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COST 355

• Start date April 2004
• End of Action May 2008
• Currently 22 countries participating
• 48 Institutions

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Objective

• Analyse the conditions under which the process of
  growing unsustainable transport demand could be
  reversed, by changing travellers, shippers and
  carriers behaviours

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Behavioural Change

• use of environmentally friendly modes
• use of less polluting vehicles
• more efficient use of vehicles
• reducing the need to travel
• spatial organisation
• White Paper
• European transport policy for 2010 time to
  decide

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Specific Aims

• Comparative analysis of data collection relating
  to transport behaviour and temporal issues across
  Europe
• Understand short, medium and long term
  interactions
• Develop elements for a formal theory of policy
  intervention

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Specific Areas of Focus

• Freight transport and energy consumption
• Car ownership and car use
• National personal transport surveys

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Scientific ProgrammeSurvey issues

• Longitudinal data issues
• SP and RP methods
• Shipper and transport operator survey
• Methodological issues in statistics
• Use of different data sources (quantitative
  qualitative)
• Use of new technologies

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Scientific Programme Analysis issues

• Improved models of individual-level behavioural
  response
• Socio-economic factors influencing the dynamic
  behaviour of mode choice
• Behavioural changes in transport and activity
  patterns due to
• Policy measures
• Information and Telecommunication Technology
• Location of activities (from urban sprawl to
  globalisation)

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4 Working Groups

• WG1 Freight transport and energy consumption
• E. Cornelis (FUNDP, BE) and C. Rizet (INRETS,
  FR)
• WG2 Car ownership and car use
• J. Dargay (Leeds, UK) and A. Berri (INRETS, FR)
• WG3 National transport surveys
• K. Axhausen (ETHZ,CH) and J. Armoogum (INRETS)
• WG4 Integrative Synthesis
• D. Zumkeller (IFV,DEU) and J-L Madre (INRETS,
  FR)

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Management Committee

• Chair Christophe Rizet (INRETS)
• Membership 2 representatives from each COST
  country
• COST Scientific Officer

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WG1 Freight Transport and Energy Consumption

• Data Collection
• Supply chain
• Last miles and urban issues
• Behavioural changes and modelling national
  policies
• Vehicle approach
• Express deliveries and air freight

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WG2 Car Ownership and Use

• Factors determining car ownership and travel
  behaviour
• Sensitivity to prices and other policy measures
• Impacts of land use on car ownership travel
• Car ownership use inequities
• Implications of traffic growth

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WG3 National transport surveys

• Statistical issues
• Temporal issues
• Use of new technologies
• Continuous travel surveys

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WG4 Integrative synthesis and dissemination

• Synthesis of findings of other WGs
• Dissemination
• Internet web site http//cost355.inrets.fr
• Joint papers for conferences journals
• Changing behaviour for a sustainable transport
  demand book?
• Definition of further research needs

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WG1 Future Plans

• European state of the art regarding freight
  transport and energy consumption
• Vehicle (or fleet) oriented approach
• Firm oriented (how they organize their logistic
  chain)
• The supply chain as a whole
• The last miles (specifically urban freight)
• Express deliveries
• Air freight
• Effects of policies for a more sustainable
  freight transport

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WG2 Future Plans

• Cross-country study of car ownership use and
  the impact of prices and taxation
• Survey of availability of national data
• - Replies from 15 countries
• Collection of data and creation of database
• Data shared by WG members for collaborative work
• Comparative research papers

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WG3 Future Plans

• Importance of comparability of data across the EU
  - harmonisation of travel surveys
• Connection between mobility surveys and other
  surveys, e.g. time use surveys
• Knowledge exchange new mobility surveys,
  particularly in new member countries

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Scientific Benefits of COST 355

• Knowledge exchange between researchers in
  different countries
• 5 STSMs visits by researchers to institutes in
  other countries for collaborative work
• A number of collaborative conference papers and
  journal submissions
• Collaborative EU National research proposals
• Scientific exchange between old EU countries and
  new member states