Research for TRAN Committee – Road enforcement databases: economic feasibility and costs

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This in-depth analysis investigated the economic feasibility and cost of creating national road enforcement databases following the introduction of new smart tachographs (so-called 'Generation 2' digital tachographs) into the EU road haulage market.

Two scenarios were considered: the first included building new databases capable of handling new smart tachograph data, and the second mainly relied on upgrading existing databases for this new usage (such as Tachonet, the European Register of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU), or the Vehicle Information Platform (VIP) based on EUCARIS).

Two options were also analysed: the first included retrofitting the whole fleet of Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and buses from year 1, and the second was based on a more gradual introduction of new smart tachographs, only for new vehicles.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, April 2018: Research for TRAN Committee - Road enforcement databases: economic feasibility and costs http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/617464/IPOL_IDA(2018)617464_EN.pdf

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, February 2018: Retrofitting smart tachographs by 2020: Costs and benefits http://www.europeansources.info/record/retrofitting-smart-tachographs-by-2020-costs-and-benefits/

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