Pan-European Transport Corridor X

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The Pan-European Transport Corridor X is one of the ten routes of the Pan-European Transport Corridors . Corridor X connects Central and Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It leads from Austria to Greece and has four branches. Salzburg is the starting point, Thessaloniki the destination. The route leads over long distances through the states of the former Yugoslavia along the Autoput Bratstvo i jedinstvo . Corridor X was added to European transport planning at a conference in Helsinki in 1997 after the end of the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Corridor X includes both rail (2528 km) and long-distance road transport (2300 km).

Planning and course

Transport Corridor X was established in 1997 at the Conference of European Transport Ministers (ECMT / CEMT) in Helsinki. The multimodal traffic route runs from northwest to southeast, and connects Austria , Slovenia , Croatia , Serbia , North Macedonia and 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 2,528 km of railway lines , 2,300 km of roads, twelve airports and four sea and inland ports .

Street

Slovenia

In Slovenia, the road corridor corresponds to the A2 motorway and runs from the Karawanken tunnel (border to Austria ) near Jesenice via Ljubljana and Novo mesto to Obrežje on the Croatian border. The route has been expanded as a four-lane motorway since October 2011 and is signposted as European route 61 (Jesenice to Ljubljana) and European route 70 (Ljubljana to Obrežje).

Croatia

In Croatia, the road corridor corresponds to the A3 motorway and runs from the Slovenian border near Bregana via Zagreb and Slawonski Brod to Lipovac on the Serbian border. After the last section of the 306 km long A3 was released in 2006 , the entire route has now been expanded to at least a four-lane motorway. It is also signposted as Europastraße 70 .

Serbia

Road corridor X runs through Serbia on the following routes:

Batrovci , Šid ( Croatian border ) - Belgrade - Tabanovce , Preševo (border with North Macedonia ), the sub-branches in Serbia are:

The route of Corridor X in Serbia includes the following European highways

Road corridor X in Serbia is occupied by the former Autoput Bratstvo i jedinstvo of the SFR Yugoslavia. This was only partially completed. Work is currently underway on twelve construction phases. In particular, the sub-branches south and west of Niš are missing. As part of road corridor X, the 69 km long Belgrade ring road will be bypassed. This was approved in the first section in 2008; completion is scheduled for 2011.

North Macedonia

In North Macedonia the road corridor corresponds to the M1 Avtopat and runs from the Serbian border near Tabanovce via Kumanovo and Veles to Gevgelija on the Greek border. The entire route is signposted as European Route 75 .

Greece

In Greece, the road corridor corresponds to the A1 motorway and runs from the North Macedonian border at Evzoni to Thessaloniki . The entire route is signposted as European Route 75 .

railroad

Slovenia

The railway line runs from the Karawanken tunnel via Jesenice , Kranj , Ljubljana to the Slovenian-Croatian border at Dobova. Only the Karawanken tunnel and the section between Ljubljana and Zidani Most are double- tracked. The line from Jesenice to Dobova is electrified with 3 kV direct current .

Croatia

The railway line runs from Dobova on the Slovenian border via Zagreb to Tovarnik on the Serbian border. The Croatian section of railway corridor X corresponds entirely to the former Bratstva i Jedinstva rail line , and the entire section has been electrified on the basis of 25 kV / 50 Hz since 1970. However, to this day, sections have only been designed as single-track and therefore not yet developed as high-speed routes. The current maximum speed is 160 km / h, with sections of the route up to 200 km / h being expanded.

Serbia

The rail corridor X is completely covered by Serbia, but does not meet European standards. Electrification of the Niš - Dimitrovgrad route and a double-track expansion of the entire route, which has been planned since 2013, make the corridor cost-intensive.

North Macedonia

North Macedonia receives EU funding for the expansion of the transit route in order to make it passable at at least 120 km / h.

shipping

Alongside the road-rail corridor, the Sava is also to be expanded as a shipping route. A new port is to be built near Sisak in Croatia, from where the Sava is navigable (Sisak New Port) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. ↑ Market analysis Serbia 2010. BW-I, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Macedonia is renovating and expanding its rail network. Jan Triebel on Germany Trade & Invest , gtai.de, September 16, 2013, accessed September 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Master plan Sisak New Port. Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning, oir.at, accessed September 25, 2015.