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ECO Railway Network Development Plan A report for the ECO Secretariat ECO Railway Network Development Plan CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT STUDIES FOR THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU) UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE JOINT ECO/IDB PROJECT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TTFA Professor Dimitrios Tsamboulas Consultant June 2012 1 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................3 1.1 Background.......................................................................................................3 1.2 Scope of the Report ..........................................................................................3 1.3 Report Outline ...................................................................................................3 2.DATA COLLECTION ..............................................................................................5 2.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................5 2.2 Part 1-ECO Rail Routes ....................................................................................5 2.3 Part 2-ECO rail transportation infrastructure projects ........................................5 2.4 Part 3-Country Reports .....................................................................................6 3.IDENTIFICATION OF PRIORITY ECO RAIL ROUTES...........................................7 3.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................7 3.2 Methodology for identification of the main ECO Priority Rail Routes .................7 3.4 ECO Rail Routes ..............................................................................................8 4.METHODOLOGY FOR PROJECT PRIORITIZATION ..........................................19 4.1 Introduction .....................................................................................................19 4.2 Overview of the Methodology .........................................................................19 4.3 Project Prioritisation Presentation ...................................................................2 5 4.4 ECO Priority Project Prioritisation Exercise .....................................................2 6 4.5 Summary ........................................................................................................3 1 4.6 ECO Railway Network Development Plan .......................................................3 2 4.7 Conclusion ......................................................................................................3 3 5.COUNTRY REPORTS ..........................................................................................35 5.1 Afghanistan .....................................................................................................35 5.2 Azerbaijan .......................................................................................................37 5.3 Iran .................................................................................................................39 5.4 Kazakhstan .....................................................................................................42 5.5 Kyrgyzstan ......................................................................................................46 5.6 Pakistan ..........................................................................................................48 5.7 Tajikistan ........................................................................................................51 5.8 Turkey .............................................................................................................54 6.CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .....................................................56 6.1 Results Achieved ............................................................................................56 6.2 Recommendations ..........................................................................................57 ANNEX I: TOR FOR NATIONAL EXPERTS ANNEX II:PROJECT DATABASE ANNEX III:MAPS ANNEX IV:EVALUATION RESULTS ANNEX V:COMPLETED TEMPLATES&OTHER INPUT 2 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background The development of a reliable and efficient railway transport network in the ECO region is of high priority, and, hence, ECO has promoted intra-regional transport connections through the promotion of cost effective rail transport corridors. It has also contributed towards the implementation of the decisions of the Member States to ease development of efficient transit transport system in the region, focusing efforts on suggesting the improvement of the existing infrastructure to meet the new demands and challenges. One related study is the “Corridor Management Studies for the Project Management Unit (PMU) under the aegis of the Joint ECO/IDB Project on Implementation of the TTFA”. 1.2 Scope of the Report The “ECO Railway Network Development Plan” constitutes part of the “ECO Priority Road and Rail Routes and Infrastructure Projects” Study, prepared by the Consultant (Contract between the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Secretariat and Dr. Dimitrios Tsamboulas-Consultant), and has the following main objectives: 1. Identifying the main rail transport corridors in the ECO Member States and the ECO general region for priority development and cooperation. 2. Identifying the priority rail transport infrastructure projects along the proposed ECO priority rail routes. 3. Develop an ECO Railway Network Investment Plan of priority on-going and/or planned rail transport infrastructure projects along the proposed ECO priority rail routes. 1.3 Report Outline The structure of the report includes five Chapters, as per the following: Chapter 2 presents a description of the data collection procedure followed for the purpose of the analysis. Chapter 3 presents the methodology employed to identify the rail corridors in the ECO region for priority development, together with their detailed description. Chapter 4 presents the development of the methodology for the identification of proposed rail projects and their prioritisation, the results of the prioritisation exercise and the investment and time plans of the priority on-going and/or planned rail transport infrastructure projects along the proposed ECO Priority Rail Routes. Chapter 5 presents the Country Reports for each country participating in the study, detailing current conditions on rail transport infrastructure, as well as National Transport Plans and related recommendations. 3 Chapter 6 presents conclusions and related recommendations from the Consultant. 4 2. DATA COLLECTION 2.1 Introduction The two key tasks of the study, that is, the identification of the main rail transport corridors in the ECO region for priority development and cooperation, as well as the identification of the priority transport infrastructure projects along the proposed routes, required foremost the input of each ECO Member country. To this end, the Consultant produced a set of documents for information collection, which were sent to National Experts of the ECO countries. These included the terms and conditions- terms of reference (ToR) - for the National Expert for the elaboration of the country report, together with predefined tables/ questionnaires for consolidating the required information. More specifically, the following documents were prepared and sent to the National Experts: • ToR for National Experts for the preparation of country report on priority rail routes and status of rail transport infrastructure projects. • Format for preparation of country report including a set of guidelines. The above documents are presented in Annex I. 2.2 Part 1-ECO Rail Routes The purpose of this part is to obtain a picture of the main transport rail routes/corridors within the ECO territory for priority development and cooperation, and, hence, the National Experts were asked to identify the key rail links and rail border crossings in the ECO territory, based on the following guidelines: • Proposed links/routes should be of international importance for transport between the ECO countries • Proposed links/routes should connect to the proposed ECO routes In addition, for each proposed ECO Rail Route, the National Experts were asked to fill in a table, with data on the technical characteristics and performance of each rail link and related borders crossing points along the identified ECO Rail Routes. 2.3 Part 2-ECO rail transportation infrastructure projects An integral part of the study is also the identification of the priority rail transport infrastructure projects, which are either planned for implementation or already under construction. To this end, the National Experts were asked to identify these along the proposed rail routes/corridors stipulated in the previous part. For each specified infrastructure priority project, the consultant prepared a template with the scope to consolidate, among, others, the necessary information to be used in the subsequent project prioritization exercise of the study, presented in Annex I. In addition to the above information, the National Experts were asked to analyse the status of implementation of the rail transport infrastructure projects along the corridors and routes proposed, identify the barriers for effective funding/ 5 implementation, as well as provide recommendations on potential sources of funding for the cases of projects with non-secured funding. The information collected was summarized in a database, listing the rail infrastructure projects per country,
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