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Orient-East Med Corridor Meeting

Presentation of the corridor work plan by the European Coordinator

Mr. Mathieu GROSCH

TEN-T days 2015 - RIGA 23rd June 2015 – Room Gamma

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OEM Corridor characteristics5.900 km rail, 5.600 km roads and 1.600km IWW

● 9 Member States

● 15 core urban nodes

● 15 core airports

● 10 inland ports

● 12 Maritime ports

● 25 RRT

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Corridor non compliance with TEN-T standards

KPIn Unit of measurement Benchmark value1 % of electrified railway length 90%

2 % of railway length compliant for 22.5 t axle load at 100 kmh 71%

3 % of railway length compliant for 740 m long trains 54%

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% of line length with ETCS and GSM-R deployment% of line length with ETCS and GSM-R deployment

GSM-R: 49%ETCS: 10%

5 % of compliant Class IV sections with sufficient draught 43%

6 % of RIS services deployed DE: 50%, CZ: 55%

7 % length of express roads and motorways with grade separated junctions 82%

8 % of road length of ITS deployment n.a.

9 % of core seaports deploying VTMIS, PCS, etc. 67%

10 % of core seaports connected to existing rail network 80%

11 % of core IWW ports connected to existing rail network 100%

12 % of all core airports connected to existing heavy rail network 40%

13 % of seaports offering alternative fuels 0%

14 % of IWW ports offering alternative fuels 0%

15 % of core airports offering alternative fuels 0%

16 Number of alternative clean fuels stations at OEM roads (July 2014) n=412

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Status of Rail infrastructure differences on the OEM corridor(an example..)

A train travelling from Athens (GR) to Hamburg (DE) would have to comply with the following standards:

● Loc's equipped with 7 different signaling systems or change 6 times the loc!

● Even if Loc equipped with 3 current capacities, 4 times to be replaced by a diesel loc!

● Maximum length of train of 600m (instead of 740m), except in BU sections where max length is 445m

● Max axle load of 20 T

● Loc would run at max 80km/h on 510km!

INTER OPERABILITY problems!!

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Identified Critical issues on the OEM Corridor(1)

● River Elbe and its insufficient navigability conditions (draught, network, bridge clearances, lock chambers..) in DE and CZ

● Rail Cross border and capacity: 3 critical issues:

● Dresden-Prague existing rail line (DE-CZ) congested!

● Brno-Györ (CZ-AT / SK-HU) with technical bottlenecks at border crossings

● Békéscsaba – Thessaloniki (HU-RO-BG-EL) heterogeneous technical characteristics,

● Maritime ports. Intermodality, key critical issue for connections (rail + road) with the hinterland and supply chain, + interoperability of e-maritime services

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Identified Critical issues on the OEM Corridor(2)

● Intermodality: rail-road terminals and ports/airports, Missing links to be adressed inside the corridor alignment.

● ERTMS low implementation rate and railway interoperability

● Traffic management systems and interoperability issues

● Technical, Organisational and administrative bottlenecks

● RIS interoperability issues and further deployment

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High investment needs

● 280 investments have been identified which would be needed for the development of the Orient East-Med Corridor by 2030

● Estimated total volume of investments of around 47.4 billion EUR (at 2014 prices)

● 25,6 billion€ must be spent on critical issues (as far as costs are known)

● Approx. 15,8 billion€ of these costs for critical issues are still to be financed

● 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 (1) ● Investing in cross-border links and bottlenecks both for rail and IWW

with highest European added-value;

● Ensuring the timely implementation and improve capacity issues of the major rail projects on (from N to S)

● Railway infrastructure improvements around Bremerhaven and Bremen

● Dresden/Prague (HSL) to allow smoother interconnection between DE and CZ

● link between Brno/Breclav

● Békéscsaba – Thessaloniki (HU-RO-BG-EL) to allow a continuity of the Corridor from Northern ports DE to the southern ports of GR

● Improvements on the Budapest node along the Praha-Ceska Trebova section

● Rehabilitation of the Craiova-Calafat link in Romania to connect to the Bulgarian border to Sofia via Vidin.

● Bulgaria-Athens link via Vidin-Kulata and Promachonas.

● Construction of the double track HSL between Tithorea and Domokos connecting the ports of Igoumenitsa and Piraeus.

● Finishing works between Athens and Patras

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Corridor priorities (2) ● Investing in ERTMS along the corridor

● Improve and develop the navigability of the Elbe with construction planning and modernisation of locks and inland ports

● Key element of the Gezamtkonzept Elbe

● Encourage results from the existing dialogue between DE/CZ

● Studies and infra works between Usti nad Labem (CZ)-Melnik and Pardubice.

● Developing the last mile connection and hinterland of the maritime ports building the start and end point of the corridor;

● Implement alternative fuels and improved ITS/VTMIS in ports

● Ports North DE continue implementation of alternative fuels

● Port of Heraklion (VTMIS)

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Corridor priorities (3) ● Improving cargo storage capacity in the Port of Lemesos (CY)

● Implement MoS standards to improve maritime transport between the continent and islands (GR, Creta and Cyprus)

● Giving due attention to the development of the urban nodes;

● Improve airports inter-modality and heavy rail connections

● Airport of Budapest, Bratislava and Praha

● Airport of Larnaka intermodal multimodal terminal

● Roads projects improvements

● Upgrading of the M15/M1 border junction between Rajka(HU) and Hegyeshalom (SK)

● Express road R52 between CZ and Austria

● Lefkosia – Lemesos soith orbital ring + bottlenecks between Lemesos and Lefkosia motorway.

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Next steps (1) Need to deepen the knowledge of all components of the corridor

Therefore we will launch a complementary analysis of the corridor!

Objectives (e.g):

• Update the first project list produced in 2014 (data collection)

• Define key performance indicators

• Support update and extension of the corridor work plan

• Identify missing priorities/links

• Potential market uptakes for specific modes

• Improve cooperation with RFC

• Key objective criteria to prioritise investments

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Next steps (2) Objectives (e.g):

• Analyse projects feasibility and maturity

• Identify projects prone to Innovative Financial Instruments

• Review of national "Transport Plans"

• Analysis of the coordination and synchronisation of projects

• Plan for the removal of technical and physical bottlenecks

• Identification of administrative and operational barriers

• Analysis of corridor nodes

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Next steps (3) Objectives (e.g):

• Impact on the environment (climate change, greenhouse gases, noise etc..)

• Deployment of innovative means and services on the corridor

• Organisation of next "OEM Corridor Fora's"

• Setting-up of specific "working groups"

• Analysis of the impact on employment on the non-execution of the TEN-T core network.

• Analysis of the results of the "Fraunhofer study"

• Employment, GDP, labour productivity ..

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Thank you for your attention

Q&A session: 20 minutes