European road freight transport survey
Description of the data collection
Scope of the survey
European countries collect data on vehicles, journeys, and goods transport operations with surveys. They transmit them on a quarterly basis to Eurostat.
Data collection
EU regulation 70/2012 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road contains the complete list of survey variables reported to Eurostat.
Available microdata
The European road freight transport survey (ERFT) microdata were anonymised for the first time in 2013. Anonymised datasets are available for the reference years as of 2011. Please consult our data availability table.
The anonymised dataset covers information for an entire year. It includes data from the following countries:
AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, NL,PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, UK, CH, NO.
Please consult our glossary for an explanation on the country codes used above.
The ERFT microdata are available only as scientific use files.
The ERFT microdata user guide contains information on the variables available in the anonymised dataset.