1. Key documents
Draft Memorandum of Understanding
Cost 355 - Final Proposal
Kick-off Meeting Presentation
Practical Information
Few advices concerning COST procedures
Minutes of the 2nd MC Meeting, Namur (BE), December 3, 2004
Minutes of the 1st MC Meeting, Brussels (BE), May 26, 2004
Reimbursement form & rules
Minutes of the 3rd MC Meeting, Berlin (DE), 23 November 2005
Templates of the Annual Monitoring Progress Report and Final Evaluation Report
Monitoring Progress Report 2006
Monitoring Progress Report 2007
Action Fact Sheet Template
Cost 355 Action Fact Sheet
Cost 355 CD-ROM
Need for Data Harmonisation
ASIF Approach and Fuel Price Elasticities
Cost 355 Final Evaluation Report
"Changing behaviour towards a more sustainable transport system" - Final synthesis report
Navigation Guide

2. STSM Reports

3. External documents
FP6 - Call for proposals 1.6.2: "Sustainable Surface Transport" - Call 3A

1. Contributions
Overview of WG 1
Minutes of the 1st WG1 Meeting, Arcueil (FR), 23 June 2004
Minutes of the 2nd WG1 Meeting, Namur (BE), 2-3 December 2004
WG1 future works - Draft proposal
Minutes of the 3rd WG1 Meeting, Arcueil (FR), 19 May 2005
Minutes of the 4th WG1 Meeting, Berlin (DE), 23 November 2005
Content of the future COST355 WG1 report
Minutes of the 5th WG1 Meeting, Piraeus (GR), 18-19 April 2006
Urban Freight: Strategies, actions and experimentations
Synthesis of COST 355 - WG1

T1. Data collection
Freight transport and data collection

T2. Supply chain
Energy consumption associated with the production and distribution of jeans in the UK
Textile supply chain
Applying Life Cycle Assessment to investigate the balance of energy consumption between production and transport activities
Energy consumption in the French yogurt supply chain
Energy consumption associated with the production and distribution of jeans in the UK
Logistical chains and energy consumption : the yogurt and jeans cases
The impact of supply chain reconfiguration on transports. The Danish mechanical, electronic and medical industries
Energy efficiency in the food supply chain
Energy consumed in freight transport: first results from the shipper and operator survey
Food miles and local sourcing: the UK experience
Supply Chain Approach

T3. Last miles and urban issues
INFACT project : INtegrated Freight Analysis within CiTies
LET’s involvement in "Freight transport and energy consumption" : urban goods transport
Using Freturb for some scenarios on the Lyon Urban Area
The Last Mile: Old problem, New Options?
The links between commercial and private steps in the supply chain
INFACT: A Belgian pilot study focusing on shops as interfaces between upwards and downwards freight transport
Environmental balances from urban freight transport studies
Follow-up of environmental and energy consumption effects from some French experimentations
Urban freight transport in Liège
Road network use, traffic and activities density in the last miles
Urban Freight in London and Paris: Strategies, actions and experimentations
The START Project
Urban logistics spaces and regulation tools for improving the last miles
Is e-commerce good for our planet ?

T4. Behaviour changes and modelling national policies
Transit movements in Europe: some findings from the port industry
Road Charging and its Acceptability for Commercial Transit Vehicles
Explaining the decoupling of freight traffic growth and economic growth
Freight road transport in Spain. Towards a higher energy and environment efficiency
Potential and perspectivs of logistics centers near the european corridors n°4 & n°8 in Bulgaria and their impact on freight trafic and energy consumption
The future flow of goods in the enlarged EU
Modal shift, from the road to the River - a large distribution feasibility study
Comparison of EU truck taxation
Spatial patterns of supply in production firms in the context of modelling freight transport - the German case
Energy saved by rail-road - results of the shipper and operator survey
Curbing GHG from freight transport in Greece
Freight transport energy use and emission trends in Spain
Measures to reduce CO2 emissions in the German freight sector
The French policy to reduce CO2 emissions in the freight transport sector
Climate mitigation through efficiency in road freight transport sector: vehicle approach and policy recommendations
Tradable CO2 permits in freight transportation: is it feasible, could it work out?
The Relative Cost Effectiveness of Carbon Mitigation Measures in the UK Freight Sector
Policy needs for decoupling transport emissions from economic growth
Modelling Approach

T5. Vehicle approach
CO2 reduction and energy efficiency in German road freight traffic
Freight Best Practice programme
EMISTRA: Energy and Emission Reporting System for Transport and Logistics
Modelling empty running in a regional freight model
The Vehicle and Fleet Approach

T6. Express deliveries and air freight
Understanding energy efficiency improvements in road freight transport companies: the example of courier and parcel services
Problems and solutions of air cargo process in Sofia airport

T7. Other topics
Sustainability and freight transport
Inland water transport challenges: Deployment of River Information Services and the impact on changes in the transport behaviour
Transport and regional development: Optimize transport demand of the Mediterranean Agriculture - The Valencian Community case study
Container hinterland transport and energy efficiency - the case of Hamburg
Data requirements of microscopic commercial transport demand modelling
Transport policy challenges in enlarged Europe
Presentation of TRANSYT and the UPM
Fuel price elasticity of road freight transport demand in France

2. Related documents
Consommation d’énergie et émissions de GES en transport de marchandises

1. Contributions
Overview of WG 2
Minutes of the 1st WG2 Meeting, Arcueil (FR), 1-2 July 2004
Minutes of the 2nd WG2 Meeting, Namur (BE), 2-3 December 2004
Minutes of the 3rd WG2 Meeting, Brno (CZ), 24 June 2005
Comparability and comparison of French and German passenger car purchase, ownership and utilization: emphasizing the diverging developments between petrol and diesel driven vehicles
Discussion on data collection
Acceptance and hindrance to a change of behaviours: the case study of London compared to the Greater Paris region and Nagoya
Minutes of the 4th WG2 Meeting, Berlin (DE), 23-25 November 2005
Minutes of the 5th WG2 Meeting, Piraeus (GR), 18-19 April 2006
Are Standards Effective in Improving Automobile Fuel Economy?
Outline and structure of a Synthesis Report

T1. Changes in car ownership on a household level
Danish car choice model
Household Car Ownership in Different Countries: A Cohort Analysis
An econometric model on the determinants of car registrations in Europe
Analyses from French panel data on car rental and household car sharing
Trends and changes in vehicle ownership in Swiss households
Car ownership in Europe - evidence from the European Community Household Panel
Effects of changes in taxation of imported second hand cars on the Finnish car fleet
Car Ownership and Household Transport Expenditure in Greece
The dynamics of car ownership in E.U countries: A comparison based on the European Community Household panel with a dynamic probit model
The diminishing marginal utility of additional cars - effects on future travel demand growth?
Real estate ownership and the demand for cars in Denmark - a pseudo-panel analysis
Motorisation development and motorisation saturation - The case of Karlsruhe
Car ownership in Greece and UK: a comparison based on pseudo panel analysis
Household car ownership in Skopje - 2006 Survey
Role of the Car and Changes in Car Ownership on an Individual Level

T2. Sensitivity to fuel price
Changes in the car fleet due to economy and taxation policies
Car ownership and use in Germany and possible influences of taxation
Dynamic time series models for Danish car ownership and use
Policy tools to influence vehicle purchasing behaviour
The diesel trend in Europe: does taxation matter ?

T3. Car dependance
The relationship between the specific (dis)utility and the frequency of driving a car
How Car Dependent is Germany? Answers from the German Mobility Panel (MOP)
Car dependency, Land Use and Transportation

T4. Travel behaviour
Changes in travel behaviour in Warsaw
Public Transport in the CR: Today Successes and Future Chances
Ageing of population and changes in mobility of the elderly
Car Use and Mobility: Changes over a Human Lifetime
Travel Behavior and mode choice in the Czech Republic
Mobility Patterns and car use in Madrid
Changing mobility behaviours - 3 qualitatives case studies: Paris-Nagoya-London
Measuring road network use with a Totally Disaggregate Approach
Mobility patterns and car use of women depending on household structures - the German case
Trends in transport modal share in Madrid - 2004 General Transportation Survey (EDM04)
Assessment of car use and its determinants for Germany
Switching from car to walking and biking for short trips
Latest trends in urban modal split in Warsaw
Mobility characteristics of car park users in Vienna and its surrounding provinces
Policy Measures to Influence Behavioral Change

T5. Land use, car ownership and travel behaviour
Impacts from different land-use strategies on travel distances
Effects of Land Use Patterns on Car Ownership and Travel Behaviour in Great Britain
Urban Polycentrism and Car Use
Urban sprawl and transport - the case of Oslo and Bergen
Growing mobility and land use in Czech cities
Mobility Developments and Supply Deficits in Rural Areas
Location and travel behaviour: An analysis based on geocoded travel surveys and studies of changes in urban land use
Transportation, urban planning and quality of life of urban population
Private car traffic demand and land use planning: steering tools in the field of private off street parking - Results from a best practice study
Residential Location and Household Expenditures for Transport and Housing: the example of the Greater Paris region
Land Use, Car Ownership and Travel Behavior

T6. Car ownership and use inequities
Dynamics of Inequality among French Households with regard to Transport Consumption
Evidence of transport inequality in Great Britain
Car Ownership and Use Inequalities

T7. Other topics
Environmental impact of individual transport
Tendencies of Car Parking Systems for Sofia, Bulgaria
Alternative methods and their reliability for the evaluation of transport social cost: an application to an Italian medium-sized city
Engineering-economic simulations of sustainable transport policies
Congestion Charges in Stockholm - to be or not to be
WG2 Data Form
Transport network in Riga (Latvia): state, problems and perspectives
The effects of accessibility gains on residential property values in urban areas: the example of the T2 tramway in the Hauts-de-Seine department, France
Fuel consumption of European cars: The effect of standards, taxation and safety
The Car and Mobility in Urban Areas - Problems & Solutions
WG2 Data Analysis

2. Related documents

1. PREDIT Project "Car in Europe : behavioral changes for ownership and use"
INRETS and « Parc Auto » panel survey
Minutes of the PREDIT KickOff meeting, February 13th 2004 in Arcueil
Effects of increasing fuel prices on transport demand
British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
The German Mobility Panel
The walking classes in France
Is urban sprawl stimulated by economic growth? A hierarchical Bayes estimation on the largest metropolitan areas in France

SAKURA Meeting Contributions (French-Japanese collaboration)
Urban sprawl and househould car traffic growth in France : Projections to the years 2010 to 2020
Inter-Temporal and Inter-Regional Analysis of Household Cars and Motorcycles Ownership Behaviours in Asian Big Cities
A study on the influences of highway to car use and daily activities
A study of utilization and the reservation system of car sharing
Development of Car Ownership and Use Model Considering Intra-household Interaction
Car ownership in France: a Bayesian analysis on panel data

1. Contributions
Overview of WG 3
Minutes of the first WG3 Meeting, Namur (BE), December 2-3, 2004
Minutes of the 2nd WG3 Meeting, Arcueil (FR), 20 May 2005
Mapping social networks in time and space
Comparability of French / Italian data on mobility
Modal choice before/after the opening of the metro: comparability of Copenhagen and Torino
Synthesis of the COST 355 - WG3
View from across the Atlantic

T1. Data collection issues
Collecting information about travel behaviour in the Czech Republic
Design Characteristics of National Travel Surveys
The household survey of Budapest and its surroundings - The theoretical background and technology of the household survey
The household survey of Budapest and its surroundings - Data processing, utilization and results
Applying an activity-based travel diary compared to a trip-based travel diary in both a Central and an Outlying zone in Madrid
Measuring activity spaces, social networks geographies and biographies: some methodological and empirical results
The influence of verbal and non verbal language manipulations on data quality
Short overview of National Travel Surveys
Targeted exploratory trials and large-scale mobility surveys
Long distance travel in Europe - surveying methods, data availability and comparability

T2. Temporal Issues
The German Mobility Panel - Intention and Conceptual Approach
The 2003 Thurgau six-week diary: Fatigue and other aspects in a long-duration survey
Daily mobility trends of Finnish people since 1986 and user segmentation according to daily mobility based on NTS 1998-99
Environmental awareness in car choice: a survey of Swiss customers
Regional longitudinal travel demand surveys - profiting from synergies
Pseudo Panel Study Derived from 3 Consecutive 5-year Interval Household Travel Surveys: Behavior Shifts’ Findings

T3. Use of new technologies
Web-based surveys: potential for travel survey?
Internet-Interview in a National Travel Survey
New Methods and Technologies for complex activity diary surveys - The SIMPT experience
Assessing possibilities of travel behaviour change during life course transitions: A methodological and empirical study
Development of an integrated person-based GPS-aided travel survey system: solutions with and without GIS data layers
Person-based GPS component: preparation of the next french NTS (ENT 2007)
An on-line pilot for a SP survey
Web surveys: an opportunity to reduce non-response in traditional household travel survey
Combining person based GPS tracking and prompted recall interviews for a comprehensive understanding of travel behaviour adaptation processes during life course transitions
Person-based GPS surveys in France: "Lille Experiment" by ISL, and GPS Subset in the French National Travel Survey (ENTD 2007-2008)
A Web-Based Survey With Experts: The Prospective of Transport in Europe Survey
Web Surveys
Use of GPS in Travel Surveys

T4. Continuous National Travel Surveys
On-going Mobility Surveys: The Southern Experience
Selectivity in the German Mobility Panel
An on-going Transportation Survey: the British NTS
Reasons and results of changing the design of the Dutch National Travel Survey (OVG)
French Experiences: the new rolling census
Sweden: from a continuous National Travel Survey to alternating Communication and Travel Surveys
Possible explanations for an increasing share of no-trip respondents in the continuous danish travel survey
Synthesis of Panel and Continuous Surveys

T5. Other topics
Characteristic of areas in terms of accessibility
Experiences from the geocoding in the 2005 Norwegian Person Travel Survey
Swiss panel survey about mobility and car choice behavior
The INVERMO survey design
National transport surveys - What can we learn from international comparisons?
A detail presentation of the next French NTS
Travel in a dynamic social context: New issues and their data requirements
Proposed biography part of the next French National Transport Survey 2007
Adding value to your data: analysis of travel expenses based on trip diary and enriched odometer reading data
Building a synthetic population for Belgium
The pros and the cons of the quantitative and qualitative approaches: when do we mix both? - Two cases on modal choice
Contributions of the Totally Disaggregate Approach for Transportation Planning in the Montreal Area
Traffic Research Experience in Poland vs. Planned National Mobility Survey
Estimating total mileage at the national level: Modelling versus mobility survey

2. Related documents
Les enquêtes permanentes (French speaking meeting)

1. Contributions
Overview of WG 4
Minutes of the 2nd WG4 Meeting, Prague (CZ), 13 October 2006
Presentation of Cost 355 for Cost 356, Madrid, 19 October 2006
Cost 355 - Watch - ETC presentation, Strasbourg, 19 September 2006
COST 355 leaflet
Minutes of the 3rd WG4 Meeting, Madrid (ES), 9 May 2007
Integrative Synthesis - Overall structure

Cost 355 Meetings
WG1, WG2, WG3 and MC Meeting - 1-3 December 2004, at FUNDP, Namur, Belgium: Agenda
COST 355 Kick-off meeting - 26 May 2004, Brussels, Belgium
WG2 Meeting - 1-2 July 2004, at INRETS, Arcueil, France: Agenda
WG1 Meeting - 23 June 2004, at INRETS, Arcueil, France: Agenda
WG1 and WG3 meeting - 18-20 May 2005, at INRETS, Arcueil, France : Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG2 meeting - 24 June 2005, at CDV, Brno, Czech Republic: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4 and MC Meeting - 23-25 November 2005, at DLR, Berlin, Germany: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG3 meeting - 27 April 2006, at HCSO, Budapest, Hungary: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG1 and WG2 meeting - 18-19 April 2006, Piraeus, Greece: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4 and MC Meeting - 11-13 October 2006, at CTU, Prague, Czech Republic: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG1, WG2, WG3 and WG4 Meeting - 9-11 May 2007, at UPM, Madrid, Spain: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4 and MC Meeting - 3-5 October 2007, at Polito, Torino, Italia: Agenda (and links to contributions)
WG1, WG2, WG3 and MC Meeting - 26-27 May 2008, Annecy, France: Agenda (and links to contributions)

Related Conferences, Seminars...
7th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods, August 1-6, 2004, Costa Rica
EU Conference "Energy in Motion : EU journey towards sustainable mobility", October 19-20, 2004, Amsterdam