Orient/East-Med Core Network Corridor Study Final Report December 2014 mmmll Study on Orient / East-Med TEN-T Core Network Corridor, Final Report Disclaimer The information and views set out in this Report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Commission. The Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this study. Neither the Commission nor any person acting on the Commission’s behalf may be held responsible for any potential use which may be made of the information contained therein. Table of content Disclaimer ........................................................................................................ 2 Table of content ................................................................................................ 2 Figures ............................................................................................................. 4 Tables .............................................................................................................. 6 Abbreviations .................................................................................................... 9 1 Information on the Study .............................................................................11 1.1 Consortium information .........................................................................11 1.2 Background .........................................................................................12 1.3 Corridor Forum ....................................................................................12 1.3.1 Corridor Forum Meeting 1/2014 .......................................................12 1.3.2 Corridor Forum Meeting 2/2014 .......................................................13 1.3.3 Corridor Forum Meeting 3/2014 .......................................................13 1.3.4 Corridor Forum Meeting 4/2014 .......................................................14 1.4 Content and Structure of the Report .......................................................15 1.5 Data Collection .....................................................................................18 2 Identification of Stakeholders .......................................................................19 2.1 Background / Methodology ....................................................................19 2.2 Rail Sector (incl. ERTMS) .......................................................................21 2.3 Inland Waterway Sector and River ports ..................................................21 2.4 Maritime Sector and Seaports ports ........................................................21 2.5 Road Sector .........................................................................................22 2.6 Road-Rail Terminals ..............................................................................22 2.7 Airports and air transport sector .............................................................22 2.8 Administrative sector (national, regional, local) ........................................23 2.9 Civil Society .........................................................................................23 3 Review of Studies and relevant documents .....................................................24 3.1 Categorization of Studies and Documents ................................................24 3.2 Complete List of Studies and Documents reviewed ...................................26 3.2.1 Studies related to the TEN-T Priority Projects .....................................26 3.2.2 The Connecting Europe Facility ........................................................29 3.2.3 The National Transport Masterplans ..................................................31 3.3 Description of most important corridor related studies ..............................35 3.4 Additional information sources ...............................................................36 3.5 Findings of the Study Review .................................................................36 3.5.1 Procedure ......................................................................................36 3.5.2 Findings ........................................................................................37 4 Elements of the Work Plan - Summary...........................................................38 4.1 The Orient/East Med Corridor Alignment (Summary of 5.1) .......................38 4.2 The OEM Railways Network and Rail Road Terminals (Summary of 5.2.1 and 5.2.2) 39 4.3 The OEM IWW Network and the Ports (Summary of 5.2.3 and 5.2.4) ..........41 4.4 The OEM Maritime Infrastructure and the MoS (Summary of 5.2.5) ............42 4.5 The OEM Road Infrastructure (Summary of 5.2.6) ....................................43 4.6 The OEM Air Transport Infrastructure (Summary of 5.2.7) .........................45 December 2014 2 Study on Orient / East-Med TEN-T Core Network Corridor, Final Report 4.7 Overview on non-compliant infrastructure on OEM corridor ........................45 4.8 The Multimodal Transport Market Study (Summary of 5.3) ........................47 4.9 The Critical Issues (Summary of 5.4) ......................................................53 4.10 The Objectives of the Corridor (Summary of chapter 6) .............................54 4.11 The List of Projects and the Implementation Plan (Summary of chapter 7.1) 54 4.12 The ERTMS deployment along the Orient/East Med (Summary of 7.2.1) ......56 4.13 The RIS Deployment Plan (Summary of 7.2.2) .........................................58 4.14 Other Elements (Resilience, Environmental Issues – Summary of 7.3) ........58 5 Characteristics of the Corridor ......................................................................59 5.1 Alignment of the Orient/East-Med Corridor ..............................................59 5.1.1 Alignment .....................................................................................59 5.1.2 Statistical Information on the Corridor ..............................................62 5.1.3 Core Network Nodes of the Orient/East Med Corridor ..........................63 5.1.4 TEN-T Priority Projects and other initiatives along the Corridor .............67 5.1.5 Corridor sections belonging to several corridor studies/consortia ..........68 5.2 Description of the Technical Parameters of the Corridor Infrastructure ........69 5.2.1 Corridor rail infrastructure ...............................................................69 5.2.2 Rail Road Terminals ........................................................................81 5.2.3 Corridor inland waterway infrastructure ............................................84 5.2.4 Inland Ports ...................................................................................97 5.2.5 Maritime Transport: Ports and Motorways of the Sea ........................ 101 5.2.6 Corridor road infrastructure ........................................................... 109 5.2.7 Corridor airport infrastructure ........................................................ 123 5.3 Multimodal Transport Market Study ...................................................... 126 5.3.1 Introduction ................................................................................ 126 5.3.2 MTMS process .............................................................................. 128 5.3.3 Socio-economic characteristics of the OEM corridor on the basis of GDP and Population .......................................................................................... 129 5.3.4 Socio-economic characteristics of the corridor on the basis of GDP and Population as reported by the countries ....................................................... 142 5.3.5 The national transport volumes and demand scenarios ..................... 147 5.3.6 Transport description of the OEM corridor in 2010 ............................ 156 5.3.7 Integrated freight transport demand scenarios ................................. 164 5.3.8 Integrated passenger transport demand scenarios ........................... 177 5.3.9 Expected modal split effects of TEN-T compliance ............................. 178 5.3.10 Supply side and capacity analysis ................................................... 182 5.4 Critical Issues for the Core Network Corridor ......................................... 187 5.4.1 Scope ......................................................................................... 187 5.4.2 Inland waterways ......................................................................... 188 5.4.3 Rail: cross border sections ............................................................. 189 5.4.4 Ports .......................................................................................... 192 5.4.5 Horizontal issues .......................................................................... 193 5.4.6 Projects addressing Critical issues / Open Issues .............................. 194 6 Objectives of the Core Network Corridor ...................................................... 195 6.1 Scope ............................................................................................... 195 6.2 General and specific objectives ............................................................ 195 6.3 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) ....................................................... 200 7 Implementation ........................................................................................ 203 7.1 Plan for the removal of barriers and to enhance efficient multimodality (Implementation