Pan-European transport corridors

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The ten Helsinki transport corridors

The Pan-European Transport Corridors were designed at three conferences of the European Transport Ministers . At the conference in Prague in 1991, the required transport infrastructure and the corridor concept were defined. In Crete (1994), the participants from Western , Central and Eastern Europe named nine corridors that should be given priority in infrastructure development. At the Helsinki conference in 1997, a tenth corridor and ports important for freight transport were added.

These so-called “Helsinki Corridors” as part of the larger Trans-European Transport Network (TEN) comprised a total of 48,000 km of freight transport routes , of which 25,000 km by rail and 23,000 km by road . Airports , sea and inland ports as well as large train stations are the multimodal connection points for the long-range connections between the Central and Eastern European countries.

Between October 2004 and November 2005, the European Commission set up High Level Working Group II , headed by Loyola de Palacio , to define a limited number of important transport axes between the European Union and its neighboring countries. The 25 EU countries plus Bulgaria and Romania , 26 neighboring countries as well as the European Investment Bank , the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank took part in the working group.

The concept of the Pan-European Transport Corridors was further developed by EU transport policy between 2010 and 2013 and goes well beyond the interim approach of the Priority Projects . The Helsinki corridors are today, partly in an amended form, part of the so-called nine. TEN-T core network corridors (TEN-T Core Network Corridors), in the new Regulation (EU) no. 1315/2013 (PDF) of on guidelines Union for the establishment of a trans-European transport network and particularly taken into account in the Connecting Europe Facility investment program ( Regulation (EU) No. 1316/2013 (PDF) ).

implementation

The concept was intended to promote the development of a future pan-European transport network that encompasses the actual area of ​​the EU (as of 2003), the (then) acceding countries , the successor states of the Soviet Union and other countries. The transport network contains the following components:

  • the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN) in the EU
  • the TINA network ( Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment ) consisting of the ten corridors and other facilities of the acceding countries 2004.
  • the corridors in the area of ​​future candidate countries, the successor states and other countries.
  • the four Pan-European Transport Areas (PETrAs) of the sea areas.
  • as well as the Europe-Asia connections, especially TRACECA ( Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia )

States involved

country EU
accession 		corridor
I. II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
Germany EU-15 x x x x
Finland EU-15 x x
Greece EU-15 x x x
Italy EU-15 x
Austria EU-15 x x x
Poland 2004 x x x x
Slovakia 2004 x x x x
Slovenia 2004 x x
Czech Republic 2004 x x
Hungary 2004 x x x x
Estonia 2004 x
Latvia 2004 x
Lithuania 2004 x
Bulgaria 2007 x x x x x
Romania 2007 x x x
Croatia 2013 x x
Moldova x
Russia x x x x
Ukraine x x x
Belarus x
Bosnia and
  Herzegovina		 x
Macedonia x x
Serbia x x
Albania   x
Turkey   x
Notes on the table
  1. ↑ A coordination office was set up in Vienna for the railway corridors IV and X and the shipping corridor VII. Its task is to promote the intermodal exchange of goods between ship and rail along the Danube.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Post-Soviet State , (engl. New independent state )
  3. ↑ a b c d successor state of Yugoslavia

Characteristics

Corridor I.

Comments: Delayed start of construction as Rail Baltica (project TEN-V27)

Corridor II

Corridor III

Remarks: Görlitz-Dresden railway , railway Węgliniec-Goerlitz , railway Miłkowice-Jasień , Berlin-Wrocław railway

Corridor IV

Corridor V

Corridor VI

Corridor VII

  • Danube between its mouth and Regensburg 2415 km

Corridor VIII

This east-west corridor connects the Adriatic ( Pan-European Transport Area Adriatic-Ionian Sea ) with the Black Sea ( Pan-European Transport Area Black Sea ) via the south-eastern Balkan peninsula . The distance via Albania , Macedonia and Bulgaria is 1270 km by rail and 960 km by road. It runs from the port city of Durrës via Tirana , Skopje and Sofia to the ports of Varna and Burgas .

Corridor IX

Corridor X

This multimodal transport route runs from northwest to southeast, and connects Austria , Slovenia , Croatia , Serbia , Macedonia as well as Hungary with Greece and Bulgaria . The main axis is Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Niš - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki with the secondary branches:

Part of the corridor are around 2528 km of rail lines , 2300 km of roads, twelve airports and four sea and inland ports .

The course of the road through the states of the former Yugoslavia corresponds entirely to the route of the Autoput .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Status of the Pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Area. (pdf) The Pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Area. (No longer available online.) November 28, 2003, pp. 7–9 , archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internationaltransportforum.org
  2. ^ Networks For Peace And Development - Extension of the major trans-European transport axes to the neighboring countries and regions. Report from the High Level Group chaired by Loyola de Palacio. European Commission , November 2005, accessed March 18, 2014 .
  3. ^ Status of the Pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Area. (pdf) Corridor VIII. (No longer available online.) November 28, 2003, pp. 88–91 , archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internationaltransportforum.org
  4. ^ Status of the Pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Area. (pdf) Corridor X. (No longer available online.) November 28, 2003, pp. 109–118 , archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internationaltransportforum.org