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Rhine-Alpine Corridor Presentation of the corridor work plan by the European Coordinator Mr Pawel Wojciechowski. Hearing in the European Parliament, Brussels, 13 October 2015. Corridor characteristics (1). 5 Member States and Switzerland 13 urban nodes 1 1 airports 8 sea ports
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Rhine-Alpine CorridorPresentation of the corridor work plan by the European CoordinatorMr Pawel Wojciechowski Hearing in the European Parliament, Brussels, 13October 2015
Corridorcharacteristics (1) • 5MemberStates and Switzerland • 13 urbannodes • 11airports • 8seaports • 22 inlandports • 20 Rail-RoadTerminals
Corridor characteristics (2) The freightmodalsplit (cross-bordertraffic in 2010) • 54% - inlandwaterways • 34% - road • 12% - rail
Corridor process in 2014 - 2015 • 4 Corridor Forum meetings with gradually increasing number of stakeholders • 2 working group meetings (IWW/Ports, Regions) • Several bilateral meetings and missions along the corridor by the former and the new European Coordinator • Corridor meeting during the TEN-T Days in Riga in June 2015: presentation of the corridor work plan to a wider
Main outputs so far • Corridor study with detailed analysis of the corridor, including a multi-modal transport market study • TENtec maps illustrating compliance of corridor infrastructure with TEN-T standards • List of projects planned to be implemented along the corridor by 2030 ...whichled to: • A corridor work plan presented by the European Coordinator and unanimously approved by all MS in May 2015
Amsterdam Railways Utrecht Rotterdam Roads Moerdijk IWW Nijmegen Vlissingen Duisburg Zeebrugge Urban nodes Antwerpen Düsseldorf Airports Albertkanaal Ghent Maritime ports Köln Brussels Inland ports Liege Rail - Road terminals Koblenz Frankfurt M. Mainz Mannheim/ Mertert Ludwigshafen Karlsruhe Strasbourg Mulhouse Rekingen Basel Zürich Aarau / Birrfeld Bern Chiasso Milano Novara Genova Corridor work plan: agreed priorities • Improvingcompliance with the TEN-T requirements, mostly for rail (including ERTMS) and inlandwaterways; • Implementing the largerailcross-borderprojectsbetween NL-DE, DE-CH and CH-IT; • Promoteinnovativesolutions(RIS, ITS, deployment of LNG infrastructure; • Reduceexternaleffects of transport, in particular the railnoisepollution; • Maintainexistinginfrastructure in goodcondition, in particularroad and inlandwaterways; • Investing in ERTMS along the corridor.
High investment needs • 175projects(including 30 in Switzerland) have been identified which would be needed for the development of the Rhine-Alpine Corridor until 2030 • Estimated total volume of investments of around 60 billion EUR • Examples of keyprojects: • Karlsruhe-Basel: >6 billion EUR • Zevenaar-Emmerich-Oberhausen: >2 billion EUR • Chiasso-Milano: >1.4 billion EUR
Project list • Corridors shall facilitate the coordinated implementation of the Core Network • List of CEF in Annex I, part I, with pre-identified projects • List of projects resulting from the work on the Corridors is obviously longer: more detailed sectioning, studies and works • The long list has a focus up till 2030, date of completion of the Core Network • The CEF Annex runs up till 2020 • There is no direct link between the two lists: being in the long list is not a guarantee for financial support and vice-versa