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ECE ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE TEM and TER revised Master Plan - TEM and TER revised Final Report - Volume I: Main text Final Report - Volume Master Plan Final Report Volume I: Main text Trans-European Motorway (TEM) Trans-European Railway (TER) Projects United Nations 2011 Printed by the Publishing Service, United Nations, Geneva — GE.12.20689 — February 2012 — ECE/TRANS/183/Rev.2 (Vol. I) ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Trans-European Motorway (TEM) project Trans-European Railway (TER) project TEM and TER revised Master Plan Final report Volume I : Main text UNITED NATIONS New York and Geneva, 2011 1 UNECE TEM AND TER PROJECTS’ MASTER PLAN – 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The revised Master Plan of the Trans-European Motorway (TEM) and Trans-European Railway (TEM) projects was completed thanks to the work and contributions of National Coordinators and country experts from participating TEM and TER member countries, without whose commitment and input this revision would not have been possible; the TEM and TER Project Manager — Mr. Helmut Meelich; the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe as the executing agency of the projects; the consultants Mr. Petr Pospisil, Mr. Romeo Galbenu and Mr. Darek Przybyla, as well as experts from observer and other participating countries, whose valuable input enlarged the scope of the revised Master Plan. ECE/TRANS/183/Rev.2(Vol. I) 2 ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface .............................................................................................................. 7 Executive summary .............................................................................................. 9 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 15 1. REVISION OF THE TEM AND TER MASTER PLAN ........................................... 17 2. REVISED TEM AND TER MASTER PLAN BACKBONE NETWORKS ................. 21 2.1 Revised TEM Master Plan backbone network ................................................. 22 2.2 Revised TER Master Plan backbone network .................................................. 26 3. COMPARISON OF THE MASTER PLAN BACKBONE NETWORKS WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS ............................. 33 3.1 TEM backbone network .............................................................................. 34 3.2 TER backbone network ............................................................................... 43 3.3 Summary .................................................................................................. 52 4. MISSING LINKS IN THE BACKBONE NETWORKS ......................................... 53 4.1 Motorway and road missing links incorporated in the revised TEM backbone network .................................................................................................... 53 4.2 Railway missing links incorporated in the revised TER backbone network .......... 55 4.3 Other motorway and road missing links ....................................................... 57 4.4 Other railway missing links ......................................................................... 57 5. UPDATING OF THE TRAFFIC FORECAST FOR THE BACKBONE NETWORKS ..................................................................................................... 59 5.1 Past development ....................................................................................... 59 5.2 Traffic forecast for the TEM and TER Master Plan ........................................... 60 5.3 Other recent forecasts ................................................................................ 63 5.4 Comparison of existing forecast results ......................................................... 68 5.5 Questionnaires for the revision of the TEM and TER Master Plan ...................... 68 5.6 The influence of the global economic crisis on road and rail traffic developments in 2008 and 2009 .................................................................................... 69 5.7 Groups of countries .................................................................................... 75 5.8 Basic development scenario ........................................................................ 75 5.9 Post-crisis development scenarios ................................................................. 77 5.10. Maps of road and rail traffic flows in 2020 .................................................. 79 6. REVISED MASTER PLAN PROJECTS ................................................................ 81 6.1 Overview ................................................................................................. 81 6.2 Motorway/road projects in the revised Master Plan ....................................... 83 6.3 Railway projects in the revised Master Plan ................................................... 99 6.4 Analysis of projects and their classification ................................................... 111 7. FUNDING CONSIDERATIONS FOR REVISED MASTER PLAN PROJECTS........ 113 3 UNECE TEM AND TER PROJECTS’ MASTER PLAN – 2011 8. STATUS OF BACKBONE NETWORKS IN 2010, 2015 AND 2020 ................ 115 8.1 Status maps of the TEM and TER backbone network ....................................... 115 8.2 Lessons learnt ............................................................................................ 115 8.3 Conclusions .............................................................................................. 116 9. BOTTLENECKS ON BACKBONE NETWORKS ................................................. 119 9.1 Definition and identification ........................................................................ 119 9.2 Roads ...................................................................................................... 122 9.3 Railways ................................................................................................... 124 10. BORDER CROSSING ISSUES ........................................................................... 177 10.1 Road border crossings on the TEM backbone network .................................... 177 10.2 Railway border crossings of importance for international combined transport according to the AGTC (European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations) ....................................... 180 10.3 Other railway border crossings on the TER backbone network ......................... 182 10.4 Border crossing traffic ................................................................................ 183 10.5 Border crossing barriers and problems ......................................................... 184 10.6 Solutions and remedial measures ................................................................. 186 11. INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE REVISED TER AND TEM BACK- BONE NETWORKS AND RELEVANT TRANSHIPMENT POINTS ...................... 189 11.1 Common sections of revised TEM and TER backbone networks ........................ 189 11.2 Terminals of importance for international combined transport .......................... 192 11.3 Other terminals of importance for international combined transport linked to the revised TEM and TER backbone networks ..................................................... 197 11.4 Ferry links/ports forming part of the international combined transport network .. 200 11.5 Other ferry links of high importance linked to the TEM and TER revised backbone networks ................................................................................................... 201 11.6 Other sea ports of high importance linked to the revised TEM and TER backbone networks ................................................................................................... 201 11.7 Terminals in inland waterway ports of importance for international combined transport linked to the revised TEM and TER backbone networks ...................... 202 11.8 Other river/lake ports of high importance linked to the revised TEM and TER backbone networks .................................................................................... 204 12. INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS ................................................................ 207 12.1 ITS in the road sector ................................................................................. 207 12.2 ITS in the rail sector ................................................................................... 208 12.3 Motorway/road ITS systems and services in the participating countries ............ 208 12.4 Rail ITS systems and services in the participating countries .............................. 210 13. ENVIRONMENTAL, SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES ......................................... 213 13.1 Environmental impacts ................................................................................ 213 13.2 Road safety ............................................................................................... 217 13.3 Transport security ....................................................................................... 220 14. CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................... 225 4 ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE LIST OF MAPS 1. TEM and TER Master Plan Revision participating countries .............................. 129 2. TEM Master Plan Revision backbone network ................................................ 131 3. TER Master Plan Revision backbone network ................................................