Abstract

The enactment of the Environment and Planning Act [Omgevingswet] extends the options to simplify and combine the rules for activities in the living environment. The RIVM supports authorities with the introduction of this new Act and the corresponding Digital System for the Environment and Planning Act [Digitaal Stelsel Omgevingswet] (DSO). Authorities phase in information and data in the DSO in so called information houses (informatiehuizen). This information and data is necessary to grant licenses and for spatial planning. In the DSO ten information houses are projected e.g. for air, water, noise, nature, external security, space, construction, cultural heritage and waste.

By order of the ministry of Infrastructure and Environment the RIVM has made an exploratory to what extend specific data can be used for several information houses. This survey included traffic data, population data, spatial data and scenario’s. Notably, traffic data can be used in the information houses Air and Noise. In both information houses data on vehicle intensities are used to get insight in effects. Most profit is being gained when a generic system is established for traffic data where the relevant information houses can make use of. An additional advantage of such a generic system is that the great diversity of traffic data can be brought into coherence and into more uniformity.

For spatial data and population data the existing basis registries [basis registraties] already provide unity. Regarding scenario’s coherence and uniformity is not so much obtained by streamlining of data but by making choices in policy. It is recommended that a co-ordinator is appointed who provides for the harmonization of traffic data and traffic models in order to make these suitable for the DSO.