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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Transportation Science
  • Economic Geography

Background:

  • Sustainable freight solutions, like inland waterway transport (IWT), require historical data for effective planning.
  • Existing IWT freight flow data is fragmented and lacks long-term comprehensiveness.
  • A significant gap exists in accessible, long-term historical data for European IWT.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compile and present a harmonized, 50-year historical dataset of European IWT freight flows (1970-2023).
  • To provide essential data for researchers, policymakers, and transport planners focused on sustainable freight.
  • To support a modal shift towards more sustainable transport solutions in Europe.

Main Methods:

  • Data harmonization across Europe, focusing on the Rhine-Alpine Corridor.
  • Inclusion of transport volumes (tonnes) and performance (ton-kilometers).
  • Application of data processing techniques, including imputation and optical character recognition (OCR), for data continuity and completeness.
  • Classification of data according to NST-R, NST2007, and CCR nomenclatures.

Main Results:

  • A comprehensive 50-year time series dataset of IWT freight data is now available.
  • The dataset covers transport volumes and performance metrics for European IWT.
  • Data is classified using standardized nomenclatures (NST-R, NST2007, CCR).

Conclusions:

  • The newly available dataset fills a critical data gap for understanding and improving European IWT.
  • This resource will facilitate research, policy development, and strategic planning for sustainable freight transport.
  • Enhanced comprehension of IWT's role in Europe's transport landscape is now possible.