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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