TEN-T Annual Programme Freight Corridor Betuweroute - South-East – Member States involved:

The Netherlands 2011-NL-93022-S

Implementation schedule Part of Priority Project 24

Start date: April 2012 End date: December 2014

Budget: National budget: €3,750,000

Total project cost covered by this Decision: €7,500,000

EU contribution: €3,750,000

Percentage of EU support: Studies: 50%

Additional information: European Commission, DG MOVE http://ec.europa.eu/transport/ index_en.html

Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) http://inea.ec.europa.eu

Beneficiary and Implementing This Action is part of the Dutch High-Frequency Rail Transport Programme (PHS body: in Dutch), which aims at increasing passenger and freight rail capacity in the ProRail busiest routes of The Netherlands as to meet increasing rail transport demand www..nl by 2020.

Concerning freight transport, the objective is to diversify the freight routes. To this end, the Betuweline (Priority Project 5), the double track freight line from to Germany, will be optimised by deviating other routes to this freight corridor.

The freight corridor Goederenroutering Zuid Nederland (corridor GZN) is part of the TEN-T Rail Freight Corridor I and belongs to the projects of common interest. GZN will contribute to the overall objectives of the PHS by removing bottlenecks and upgrading the existing rail infrastructure in the section Meteren-Boxtel, which is the part of the corridor where adjustments are mostly required.

In order to make the necessary adjustments in this section, a variant study is proposed to examine the preferred alignment. The present co-financed studies will include:  An analysis of the alternatives  An Environmental Impact Assessment  A detailed design of the preferred variant

State of progress on 31 December 2013: The analysis of the alternatives has been completed in 2013 and the tasks related to the Environmental Impact Assessment and detailed design of the preferred variant are ongoing.

Update: July 2014