Second Track of the Divača-Koper Railway Line
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second track of the Divača-Koper railway line REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURE SLOVENE INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCY second track of the Divača‒Koper railway line 2 Second track of the Divača–Koper railway line List of contents 3 Acronyms used .......................................................................................... 7 Tunnels .......................................................................................................... 52 LIST OF Viaducts ....................................................................................................... 56 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 9 CONTENTS Other structures ......................................................................................... 58 BASES FOR THE PLANNING AND THE PURPOSE OF THE Superstructure .........................................................................................64 SECOND TRACK OF THE DIVAča–KOPER RAILWAY LINE ....... 15 General .......................................................................................................... 64 The Divača–Koper section as part of the TEN-T network ............ 16 Ballasted track ............................................................................................. 64 The purpose of the second track of the Divača–Koper Ballastless track ........................................................................................... 65 railway line............................................................................................... 18 Electrical catenary ..................................................................................66 Cargo port of Koper .............................................................................. 19 Power sub-stations ................................................................................66 Overview of throughput in the past ........................................................ 19 Signalling and safety devices ............................................................... 67 Planned investments of Luka Koper ..................................................... 23 Relocation of utility lines ...................................................................... 67 Forecast of throughput at the cargo port of Koper ........................... 23 ESTIMATED VALUE OF THE SELECTED VARIANT ........................69 Reliability of the existing track ............................................................ 24 Main characteristics ................................................................................... 24 EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT ............................................... 73 Main risks ...................................................................................................... 25 Geological and relief characteristics .................................................. 74 Traffic on the Divača–Koper rail link .................................................. 26 Air .............................................................................................................. 75 Capacity of the existing Divača–Koper line ......................................... 28 Quality of soil and plants ..................................................................... 75 Measures on the existing track ............................................................ 32 Features and quality of groundwater ................................................. 76 Modernisation of the existing track........................................................ 32 Hydrographical features, chemical and ecological state The second track between the Dekani power sub-station of surface waters and flood safety ...................................................... 77 and Koper ..................................................................................................... 33 Caves ......................................................................................................... 78 Flora, fauna and habitat types .............................................................. 79 HISTORY OF THE SPATIAL PLACEMENT OF THE Protected areas ...................................................................................... 81 SECOND TRACK BETWEEN DIVAča and KOPER ...................... 35 Valuable natural features and ecologically important areas ........ 82 The first round of evaluation ................................................................ 36 Cultural Heritage .................................................................................... 83 Second round of evaluation ................................................................. 38 Cultural landscape and visible qualities of space ............................84 The selected variant ............................................................................... 39 Agricultural land and agriculture ........................................................ 85 DESCRIPTION OF THE SELECTED VARIANT ............................... 41 Forests and forestry ............................................................................... 87 The elements used in the design ......................................................... 42 Noise ..........................................................................................................89 Activities after the adoption of National Site Plan ........................... 43 Vibrations ..................................................................................................89 General description of the route ......................................................... 45 Light pollution .........................................................................................90 Basic geological data .............................................................................48 Electromagnetic radiation ....................................................................90 Access roads and platforms at tunnel portals ..................................49 Waste ........................................................................................................ 91 Structures ................................................................................................. 52 CONCLUSION ................................................................................. 93 4 Second track of the Divača–Koper railway line Introduction 5 6 Second track of the Divača–Koper railway line Acronyms used 7 Acronyms AC Alternating current CEF Connecting Europe Facility used CETRA Central European Transport Model DC Direct current EIA Ecologically important area ERTMS European Railway Traffic Management System ETCS European Train Control System GSM-R Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway NATM New Austrian Tunnelling Method NB Noise barrier NSP National Site Plan TBM Tunnel-boring machine TEN-T Trans-European Transport Networks 8 Second track of the Divača–Koper railway line Introduction 9 Introduction 10 Second track of the Divača–Koper railway line Introduction 11 The main transport branches in Slovenia are road nineties. It was followed by the procedure of the spa- and rail transport which run on a densely branched tial placement of the line and the determination of the nearly 40,000-kilometre network of public roads and variant for which the Government of the Republic of 1,200-kilometre network of railway lines, which together Slovenia adopted the Decree on the National Site Plan Slovenia is situated at the with airports for international passenger and freight in 2005, and the Amendments to the Decree in 2014. crossroads of the Alps, Dinaric transport and a port for the international transportation Alps, the Pannonian Plain and of goods form an integrated and developed transport On the initiative of the Ministry of Infrastructure, the the Adriatic Sea. Due to its system with more than 75 million passengers and almost spatial placement procedure was led by the Ministry 100 million tonnes of diverse cargo transported a year. of the Environment and Spatial Planning, while pro- geographical position, it is an fessional support and expertise were provided by the important traffic hub in this It was the estimates of future trade flows through the investor, the Slovenian Infrastructure Agency, which is part of Europe with crossings port of Koper that some time ago encouraged ideas a body within the Ministry of Infrastructure. In 2011, of traffic flows between North on the new railway infrastructure that would ensure project management and the implementation of other and South, and East and West. better links to the interior of the country as well as to professional consulting services included DRI uprav- the wider European area. ljanje investicij (Družba za razvoj infrastrukture, d.o.o.) Two trans-European transport as an internal consulting engineer. corridors pass through the The existing Divača–Koper single-track line was built in country: the Baltic-Adriatic and 1967 as an industrial track and any possible increase in At the time of issuing this publication (June 2015), the Mediterranean corridor. its capacity merely by modernisation of infrastructure project designs for a building permit for the project is severely limited. of the second track between Divača and Koper were prepared and reviewed; the majority of approvals for The first research of the possibility of the new railway the project to proceed had been obtained and most of link, supported with studies, was carried out in the late the land required for construction had been acquired.