Connecting Europe Facility – Works TRANSPORT 2014-EU-TM-0190-W

Member States involved: Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor

Austria, Italy

Implementation schedule Start date: January 2016 End date: December 2019

Budget: Estimated total cost of the action: €2,196,600,000

Maximum EU contribution: €878,640,000

Percentage of EU support: 40%

Beneficiaries: Republic of www.bmvit.gv.at

Republic of Italy www.infrastrutturetrasporti.it

Implementing body: BBT SE - Galleria di Base del Brennero/Brenner Basistunnel The Brenner Base Tunnel is the centrepiece of the railway upgrade from www.bbt -se.com Munich to Verona on the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor. It will enable heavier and longer trains to operate on the line. The 55 km cross-border Additional information: Alpine tunnel will remove a major bottleneck for both freight and passenger transit between Austria and Italy. Coordinator’s Report of the Corridor The Action takes into consideration a series of works between 2016 and http://ec.europa.eu/transport/them 2019 and is the continuation of activities included in Action 2007-EU-01180- es/infrastructure/ten-t- P. The main objective is the excavation of the main tunnels and the policy/priority-projects/european- correlated ancillary works of the Brenner Base Tunnel. coordinators_en.htm In particular, the activities concern the realisation of the main tunnels and European Commission infrastructures in the , Sillschlucht, -Pfons, Sillschlucht- http://ec.europa.eu/transport Pfons, Pfons-Brenner, Mules 2 & 3 and Isarco-Fortezza construction lots. By the end of 2019 approximately 130 km (= 55%) of the tunnel system will have been excavated. Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) Once completed, the traffic throughput will increase from the current train http://ec.europa.eu/inea number 240 to 591 per day. By removing this transalpine bottleneck travel time will decrease and traffic will be shifted from road to rail.

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Update: September 2015