Transport
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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