Ministerial Meeting on MITIGATING CONGESTION ADDING CAPACITY

1. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication Ministerial Meeting on MITIGATING CONGESTION ADDING CAPACITY Prioritizing investments to manage congestions (inter-modal aspects, corridors, gateways) M I N I S T E Rdr Andrija Lompar30-31 May, 2007Sofia BULGARIA

2. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication BACKGROUND Difficult terrain for construction and high maintenance costs (55% of total Montenegrin territory is above 1000 m of sea level) Improperly treated transport infrastructure in the last 15 years mainly due to weak economic situation and lack of financial sources in the budget Low infrastructure characteristic - steep slopes, absence of shoulders, tight curves, low radii, relatively high pavement degradation…

3. TRANSPORT MAP OF MONTENEGRO

4. AVERAGE ANNUAL DAILY TRAFFIC AADT MONTENEGRO 2006

5. TRANS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT NETWORK

6. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication NEEDS FOR BETTER CONNECTION Trough Montenegro does not pass any trans-European corridor High Level Group EXTENSION OF THE MAJOR TRANS-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT AXES TO THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS: targeted cooperation frameworks should be put in place, taking into account the existing cooperation modalities, political situation and transborder traffic South East Europe Region: Memorandum of Understanding on Development of the South East Europe Core Regional Transport Network, June 2004 Port of Bar is included in Motorways of the Seas

7. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH EAST EUROPE CORE REGIONAL TRANSPORT NETWORK South East Europe Core Rail and Ports network South East Europe Core Road and Airport network Capitals Core Road Network Capitals Core Railway Network Cities of regional importance TEN or TINA roads Cities of regional importance TEN or TINA railways Airports Danube or Sava Danube or Sava Sea and inland ports

8. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication MONTENEGRO TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY VISION Stabile and sustainable, in wider areas integrated, economically stimulating transport system MISSION Qualitative transport infrastructure ready to support economic needs of Montenegro, aiming to encourage its economic development and management, respecting economic principles, attracting private capital in transport and better functional connectivity of transport infrastructure with its users

9. RAILWAY Necessity for larger repairs of railways infrastructure (167km railway line Bar-border with Serbia include 105 bridges and 106 tunnels( Lack of significant participation of multimodal and combined transport Average age of rolling stocks over 30 years Insufficient logistic chain with the Railway of Serbia and the Port of Bar Unfinished development reforms-restructuring and privatization of operating activities ROADS AND ROAD TRANSPORT Incomplete road infrastructure Extremely high seasonal traffic distribution namely high traffic peaks during the tourist season Problems related to road maintenance and existence of the large number of critical points (incomplete slopes, incomplete bridges, winter maintenance…) MARITIME TRANSPORT Connectionless of the Port of Bar with the transshipment centers in the region with fidder services Obsolete cargo handling equipment Unfinished development reforms-restructuring and privatization of operating activities CIVIL AVIATION Extreme density flights during the tourist season Unfinished development reforms-restructuring and privatization of operating activities Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication FACTORS AFFECTING CONGESTIONBY TRANSPORT MODE

10. HIGHWAYS AND CORE ROAD NETWORKACROSS MONTENEGRO

11. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication CONGESTION IN MONTENEGRO UNTIL RECENTLY IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS A ONE OF THE MAIN PROBLEM IT CAME IN RECENT YEARS WITH RAPID INCREASE OF THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, ESPECIALLY TOURISM- TRAFFIC SUMMER SEASONAL PEAKS ARE EXTREMELY HIGH, IN AUGUST VOLUME OF TRANSPORT IS FIVE TIMES ONE DURING THE WINTER INCREASING TRANSIT IMPACT ON URBAN, LOCAL AND REGIONAL TRANSPORT SEASONAL CHARACTERISTIC IS NOT LIKELY TO JUSTIFIES MAJOR INVESTMENT IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

12. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication POLICY RESPONSES TO CONGESTIONS TRANSFER OF CARGO TRANSPORT FROM ROAD TO RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION OF TERMINALS FOR COMBINED TRANSPORT (PORT OF BAR, PODGORICA AND BIJELO POLJE) CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS CONSTRUCTING OF BY-PASSES AROUND MAIN CITIES BETTER MANAGEMENT OF OVERALL TRANSPORT IN MONTENEGRO (USE OF ALTERNATIVE ROUTES, SPECIAL REGIMES DURING THE WEEKENDS, BETTER ORGANISED URBAN TRANSPORT, IMPROVING URBAN-PUBLIC TRANSPORT BY INTRODUCING SEASONAL CAPACITIES…)

13. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication GENERAL GOALS FOR TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Increase of safety and security in transport Increase of the quality of transport services Linked Montenegro transport system of Montenegro with Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T Transport infrastructure developed in line with needs of economic development Protection of environment in designing and functioning of the transport Fair determination of prices in transport

14. Regional importance Coherency with other projects Proportion of international traffic Inter-operability Economic and development importance Economic feasibility Developmental impact Approach Financial sustainability Amount of investment Financial sustainability Degree of insurance of funds Possibility of the participation of private capital Impact on environment and sociological impact Environmental impact Promotion of sustainable mobility Sociological impact Inter-modality Technical standards Technical feasibility Level of technical standards Specific criteria Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication CRITERIA'S FOR PROJECTS EVALUATION

15. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication PROJECT SUITABLE FOR PPP

16. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication PROJECT SUITABLE FOR PPP

17. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunication CONCLUSIONS MONTENEGRO TRANSPORT STRATEGY GOALS ALIGNED WITH ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT NEEDS AND EU TRANSPORT POLICY MITIGATION OF CONGESTION: SUPPORT OF RAILWAY AND PORT SYSTEMS INTENSIFYING REGULAR SERVICES ON INTER-MODAL AND COMBINED TRANSPORT CONSTRUCTION OF NEW INFRASTRUCTURE-HIGHWAYS USING PPP SCHEMES PRIORITIZED INVESTMENTS ON REGIONAL CORE NETWORK REFORMS EXECUTION: INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE FOR UTILIZATION UNDER EQUAL CONDITIONS TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS AND PRIVATIZATION OF OPERATING ACTIVITIES BETTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND INTERFACES OF ALL TRANSPORT MODE

18. Government of the Republic of Montenegro Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Telecommunicationandrijal@cg.yuwww.minsaob.vlada.cg.yu THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!!