Abstract
Official transport statistics is a broad, complex and important domain in the area of official statistics. Due to the dynamics of transport markets, their economic framework and legal regulation as well as the evolving challenges for transport economics, companies, research and policy the statistical users’ needs are also subject to continuous change. This article presents the main results of a study conducted by the Institute of Transport and LogisticsManagement at Vienna University of Economics and Business which focused on the requirements on future developments in the field of official transport statistics from the users’ perspective.
Highlights
Introduction and BackgroundTransport is a mass phenomenon with direct and indirect effects for everyone and of general interest and particular importance
Even interview partners generally assessing quality to be high see some aspects needing improvement: In addition to the long time between reference period and publication and the missing availability of regionally disaggregated data the most often mentioned aspect are the fields of transport not covered by official transport statistics and problems of comparability and coherence between different transport statistics and transport and other statistics respectively
The experts interviewed for this study showed a clear preference for the implementation of a unique web-based transport statistics data platform following the example of Germany
Summary
Transport is a mass phenomenon with direct and indirect effects for everyone and of general interest and particular importance. Transport statistics are collected and compiled by companies, organisations and authorities They are related to different points and periods of time, have different regional scopes, are partly tailor-made surveys, partly standardised, compiled once or regularly, vary significantly as regards accessibility, actuality, comparability, coherence, methods, survey designs, validity, reliability etc. Within this broad field official federal transport statistics in Austria provided by Statistics Austria is a major component. Austrian Journal of Statistics, Vol 38 (2009), No 4, 265–275 upmost standards These facts ensure that users can legitimately rely on the results of official statistics and take them as a point of reference. Further details and an enumeration of legal bases can be found in the Standard documentations provided by Statistics Austria for each domain individually
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