Target Location Clause Samples

Target Location. ‌ Even though this report has been focusing on Road Asset Management at a European level, it is important to note that not all EU countries are the same, as we have explained in the previous section. Countries may differ in their geography, climate, population, and economic situation. Therefore, to target specific countries it is necessary to identify parameters to compare them and select the ones that comply with the classification criteria. To target countries, we have based our selection on the following parameters: national road network length (km), Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT), proportion of Heavy Goods Vehicles, technology maturity and road maintenance budget. The list of targeted countries is the following: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain. After analyzing the situation for each country, we have encountered those Northern European countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England have high maintenance budget for contracts and high spending for infrastructure maintenance. In 2019, Denmark and Sweden spent 1 151 451 725 euros and 999 839 421 euros respectively in road infrastructure maintenance. Moreover, Norway, Sweden and England have high budgets for maintenance of their networks reaching EUR 5- 6 billion. (England invested EUR 17,84 billion during 2015 and 2020). Furthermore, England is one of the top countries with highest AADT and proportion of HGVs. Also, Norway is one of the three countries in Europe with implementation of level 4 ITS. ESRIUM’s services will help these countries reach level 4 (cooperative ITS) or increase their deployment (Norway). Following, Western European Countries, namely Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland have the longest national road network (km) (in particular, France and Germany with 1,028,446 km and 644,480 km respectively). Belgium and the Netherlands have the highest annual average daily traffic. On the other hand, the proportion of HGVs is the largest also in Belgium and in Germany. Regarding technology maturity, these countries have the highest level of ITS technologies (level 3: Switzerland (94.5%), Netherlands (85.6%) and level 4: Austria (1.4%). All of them have high maintenance budgets and spending, for instance France spent 2 324 750 000 euros in road infrastructure maintenance during 2019. Since these countries face heavy traffic daily and Heavy Goods Vehicles operate in high scale in most of the...