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T&E	European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) is Europe's principal environmental organisation campaigning on sustainable transport. Their primary focus is on European policy and their work in Brussels is supported by 44 NGO member organisations working in 20 countries to promote an environmentally sound approach to transport.	Acronyms/Other International Organisations;
TED	Tenders Electronic Daily: it contains all active notices published in the Supplement to the European Communities Official Journal (OJ S)	Acronyms/European projects and initiatives; EU legislative framework/EU legislative acts and procedures;
TELEPASS	Italy National ETC system	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
TEMPO	Trans-European intelligent transport systeMs PrOjects. The European Commission launched the TEMPO programme in 2001. Realising the benefits of ITS on a European scale requires a co-ordinated effort involving all key players. Before 2001, individual projects addressed various ITS implementation issues, but with limited co-ordination among the different players. Now, however, The European Commission has launched the TEMPO programme. ITS aim is to stimulate a harmonised and synchronised deployment of intelligent transport systems and services on the Trans-European Road Network.	Acronyms/European projects and initiatives; COPER III action domains/Information Society;
TENs - Transeuropean Networks	The function of Trans-European Networks is to create a modern and effective infrastructure to link European regions and national networks. They are essential to proper operation of the common market, since they ensure free movement of goods, persons and services. Title XV of the Treaty establishing the European Community provides the legal basis for Trans-European Networks, which exist in three sectors of activity: Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) cover road and intermodal transport, waterways and seaports, and the European high-speed railway network. Intelligent transport management systems also fall into this category, as does Galileo, Europe's satellite radio navigation system.	Acronyms/European projects and initiatives;
TEO	TEO, the Hellenic Highway Fund, is the Greek member of ASECAP. TEO operates and maintains all toll stations in Greece and provides financial support for building new motorways and maintaining those that already exist in the Greek national system. The road network represented by TEO is of 916.5 km	Acronyms/ASECAP members and committees;
The Court of First Instance	It basically hears disputes (such as disputes brought by those refused a trademark by the EU Trade Mark and designs registry). Appeals are sent to the European Court of Justice. The creation of Court of First Instance instituted a judicial system based on two levels of jurisdiction: all cases heard at first instance by the Court of First Instance may be subject to a right of appeal to the Court of Justice on points of law only. In view of the increasing number of cases brought before the Court of First Instance in the last five years, in order to relieve it of some of the caseload, the Treaty of Nice, which entered into force on February 1, 2003, provides for the creation of ‘judicial panels’ in certain specific areas	EU legislative framework/EU legislative acts and procedures;
TINA	TINA Vienna-Transport Strategies GmbH is regarded as a Europe-wide recognised competence centre for European and especially Central and Eastern European transport planning. "TINA" is the acronym of the first project carried out in this context: Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment, a transport infrastructure analysis for the ongoing extension of the Trans-European Network (TEN) into the new Member States with a network density that meets the relevant transport requirements.	Acronyms/Other International Organisations;
TIS (Télépéage Inter-Sociétés)	Technical and contractual context of EFC interoperability in the French concession system	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll	For the ASECAP Members tolls constitute the revenue collected by a company, and considered as assets of its budget, from all or some of the users of a road infrastructure or network, for one or more of the following reasons: • To finance • Build • Maintain • Operate • Improve the above-mentioned road infrastructure or road network. Within ASECAP, most of the members carry out all of the above activities and tolls are mostly distance-related although in some cases they are time- related. All the ASECAP members consider that tolls should be primarily distance-related in future, even if other criteria are taken into account when calculating them. (ASECAP definition of Tolls from the publication "Tolled infrastructures within ASECAP" 2004)	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll charger	Generic representative of a toll domain within the Toll charging role	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll charging role	Toll Charging means providing a transport service (often road usage) to a Service User and charge the latter a fee for this ("the toll"). The responsibility for levying toll in a toll domain is part of the Role and results in claiming payment from a third party within the EETS Provision Role.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
TOLL COLLECT GmbH	Toll Collect GmbH is an ASECAP associate member. It operates a system for collecting a distance-based road toll for heavy commercial vehicles (trucks weighing 12 tons or more) on federal motorways in Germany. This system was developed and installed by Toll Collect on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development	Acronyms/ASECAP members and committees;
Toll declaration	A statement from an OBE to a toll system, confirming the presence of a vehicle in a toll domain and providing the (security) information described in the common toll interface.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll domain	An area or part of road and ferry network where a toll regime is applied	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll Lane	A toll lane restricts traffic flow to facilitate either the automatic or manual collection of tolls.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll object	A distinguished part of a toll domain	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll Receipt	Receipt given to customer while in the toll lane that can show amount paid, date, time, lane, Toll Service Attendant and vehicle classification. The concept of a “toll receipt” may be extended to that of a monthly statement listing all toll transactions for that period.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll Regime	The set of rules, including enforcement rules, governing the collection of toll in a toll domain.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll scheme	A generic term used for toll regime and/or toll domain and/or toll system depending on the context.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll service	A service enabling users having only one contract and one set of OBU to use a vehicle in one or more toll domains.	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
Toll System	The off board equipement and possible other provisions used by a toll charger for the collection of toll for vehicles	COPER I action domains/Tolls;
TRAN	Transport and Tourism committee in the European Parliament	EU legislative framework/EU Institutions and policies;
Transport of dangerous goods by road	In order to lay down uniform safety rules for the transport of dangerous goods by road, several acts have been adopted by the EU Institutions. The latest is the Commission Directive 2003/28/EC of 7 April 2003 adapting for the fourth time to technical progress Council Directive 94/55/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by road. Basically this Directive applies to the transport of dangerous goods by road in the Community. It does not apply to the transport of dangerous goods by vehicles belonging to the armed forces or under the control of the armed forces.	EU legislative framework/EU legislative acts and procedures; COPER II action domains/Road safety;
Treaties of the European Union	They are effectively the basic constitutional texts of the Union. They set out the objectives of the Union and establish the various institutions which are intended to achieve those aims	EU legislative framework/EU legislative acts and procedures;