Baltic adriatique corridor k. bodewig

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Baltic-Adriatic
Corridor
European Coordinator
Prof. Kurt Bodewig
Corridor meeting at the TEN-T Days 2015
Riga, 22 June 2015

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Presentation of the
corridor work plan

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Corridor
characteristics
● 6 Member States
● 13 urban nodes
● 13 airports
● 10 ports
● nearly 30 RRT
● 16 cross-border sections:
9 (Rail), 7 (Road)

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● Electrification: almost entirely
electrified; however 3 different
power systems in use
● Axle load (22.5t): 10% non-
compliant (particularly PL, SI)
● Line speed for freight (100 km/h):
31% non-compliant (PL, SI)
● Train length (740m): 84% of the
corridor is non-compliant;
prevailing length is 600 m
● ERTMS: not in use yet on the
network (apart from one section in
Austria)
Corridor compliance with TEN-T standards
Extension of the non-compliant rail freight
infrastructure in km / % of the total length

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Critical issues
● Six rail and two road
cross-border sections
require particular attention
with regard to their
modernisation and upgrading
to comply with all EU
requirements
● 2 missing links at the
Alpine crossings in Austria
(Semmering, Koralm)
● National bottlenecks
(in particular railway network
in PL and SI; road network in
PL, CZ, SK)

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High investment needs
● 350 investments have been identified which would be needed for
the development of the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor until 2030
● Estimated total volume of investments of around 59.7 billion EUR
(at 2014 prices)
o 52% of investments allocated to railways,
o 30% to road,
o 12% to ports and
o about 6% to airports, RRT and urban nodes
● Prioritisation of investments is of utmost importance and
a competitive planning and financing framework needs to be
set up

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Corridor priorities
● Investing in cross-border links both for rail and road with
highest European added-value;
● Ensuring the timely implementation of the major tunnel projects
in Austria which will allow for a big step forward with regard to
the Alpine crossing of major traffic flows;
● Developing the last mile connection of the ports building the
start and end point of the corridor;
● Giving due attention to the development of the urban nodes;
● Investing in ERTMS along the corridor as to realise a shift from
road to rail.

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Presentation of the
corridor process and
its next steps

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What happened so far?
● 4 Corridor Forum meetings held in Brussels in 2014 with gradual
involvement of Member States, infrastructure managers of all corridor
transport modes (rail, road, ports, airports), RFC 5, and Regions
● 2 Working Group sessions (Ports / Regions)
● Final corridor study with detailed analysis of corridor presented in
December 2014
● Corridor work plan, based on results of corridor study, elaborated by
European Coordinator and presented to Member States on 22 December
2014 for their approval
● May 2014: Approval of corridor work plan by all Member States
concerned
● Today: presentation of the work plan to the wider public
● July 2014: Hearing in the European Parliament

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What happens next?
Further development of the corridor study
●Selection of consultant for further development of the corridor study
and support to the European Coordinator currently ongoing
●Aim: to deepen and consolidate the analysis of 2014
● Update and deepening of the project list for all modes with the aim to
prioritize investments (detailed description of individual projects and their
timing and costs; analysis of projects' feasibility and maturity; identification of
their added value for the corridor; …)
● Enhancing coherence between the core network corridors and horizontal
priorities ERTMS and MoS; consolidating the exchange with the RFC
● Covering issues that were only marginally touched upon so far, notably
innovation, ITS, sustainability and interoperability
● Dealing with environmental impacts, noise, greenhouse gas emissions and
climate change

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What happens next?
Continuation of the corridor process /
Revision of the corridor work plan
●5th
Corridor Forum: Monday 28 September 2015, Brussels – inception
report by the consultant on methodology to improve the corridor study
●6th
Corridor Forum: Friday 11 December 2015, Brussels – presentation of
first progress report of the consultant
●7th
Corridor Forum: March 2016 – intermediate report on further
development of the project list
●Two further Corridor Forum meetings in 2016 in view of first update
of the corridor work plan – process to continue in 2017 and 2018
●Working group sessions on specific items still to be decided (Ports,
Regions, cross-border issues…)
●Many bilateral exchanges possible during Coordinator's missions
●June 2016: Update of corridor work plan

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Thank you for your attention