HIGH-TOOL, Strategic high-level transport model

The European Commission’s General Directorate Mobility & Transport (DG MOVE) follows a challenging objective: to develop transport policies that benefit all sectors of the Community. Decisions concerning transport policy measures elaborated by the European Commission (DG MOVE) that are proposed by the European Union, have important long-term implications for society, the environment and the economy. The key objective of the HIGH-TOOL project was to develop an open source, high-level strategic assessment model for use by EU policy makers and policy analysts to assess economic, social and environmental impacts of transport policy measures: The HIGH-TOOL model. The model has two purposes. It can be applied to strategic assessment of transport policy options, and to support identification of policy options for further analyses by more detailed assessment instruments.

The HIGH-TOOL model was developed sequentially under careful consideration of user requirements and was developed on the basis of existing tools (e.g., Vaclav, NEAC, TREMOVE). Furthermore, the model development was accompanied by an extensive validation and testing approach along with sensitivity checks. Namely, robustness tests were carried out to ensure that the model works correctly in the presence of invalid inputs, and significant effort was spent to calibrate the HIGH-TOOL modules to the EU Reference Scenario 2013.

The tool’s timeline are 5-years steps from 2010 to 2050.

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Warsaw opens office for mobility and transport policy

The city of Warsaw last month opened the Policy Office for Mobility and Transport which seems to be an excellent example for other cities as well. The new office will be composed of three divisions: security and traffic management, mobility and transport strategy, as well as road infrastructure and organisation. 

The first will be responsible for road safety policy and transport programs, and security audits, validation of traffic as well as control of the roadway.  

The mobility and transport strategy will deal with, among others, Warsaw implementation of mobility policy and transport strategy, standards for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, strategic co-operation with the Office of Architecture and Planning, as well as the preparation and analysis of the communications service and the concept of transport solutions. 

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Maintenance, adaptation and further development of a European ITS Framework Architecture for Intelligent Transport Services (ITS)

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Regulation launches a call for proposals which will contribute to the achievements of the European transport policy objectives and the realisation of a robust and resource efficient European transport system compliant with the European legislations and standards (i.e. the ITS