RAIL FREIGHT CORRIDOR 6 Mediterranean Corridor IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2016/2017 RAIL FREIGHT CORRIDOR 6 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2017 MODIFICATIONS AND UPDATINGS Evolution Index Date Modification / comments Written by RFF/Task V0 2 April 2013 First version / Gathering of each chapter Force RFF/Task V1 9 April 2013 Update of chapter 1, 3 and 5 Force RFF/Task V2 12 April 2013 Update following / MB Decision Force VTAGRAG 17 April 2013 Update following / TF level Task Force EB version 10 May 2013 AG Comments / MB approval Task Force AG / Executive Board / European Commission V10Nov 2013 6 November 2013 Comments PMO CIDs and Basic elements of TMS V9Dec 2013 9 December 2013 Executive Board Comments for Approval PMO V16Jan 2014 16 January 2014 ERTMS Update PMO V20Mar 2014 20 March 2014 Terminals list and maps update PMO V18Dec 2014 18 December 2014 Extension of the Corridor and general updates PMO V9Jan2015 19 January 2015 Executive Boards Comments PMO V11May2015 11 May 2015 RFF – SNCF Réseau update PMO V11Dec2015 11 December 2015 General update – including extension Croatia PMO 1 RAIL FREIGHT CORRIDOR 6 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 4 2. Corridor Description ........................................................................................ 8 2.1. Key Parameters of Corridor Lines .................................................................. 10 2.2. Connections with Other Corridors .................................................................. 27 2.3. Corridor Terminals ....................................................................................... 28 2.4. Bottlenecks ................................................................................................ 32 2.4.1 Spain ....................................................................................................... 32 2.4.2 France ..................................................................................................... 33 2.4.3 Italy ........................................................................................................ 35 2.4.4 Slovenia .................................................................................................... 37 2.4.5 Croatia ..................................................................................................... 38 2.4.6 Hungary ................................................................................................... 39 2.5. RFC Governance .......................................................................................... 40 3. Essential Elements of Transport Market Study .............................................. 51 3.1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 51 3.2. Current situation............................................................................................ 51 3.3. Projections ................................................................................................... 102 3.4. Conclusions .................................................................................................. 113 4. List of Measures .......................................................................................... 116 4.1. Coordination of Infrastructure Works ............................................................ 116 4.2. Corridor OSS .............................................................................................. 116 4.3. Capacity Allocation Principles ....................................................................... 118 4.4. Applicants .................................................................................................. 118 4.5. Traffic Management .................................................................................... 124 4.6. Traffic Management in Event of Disturbance ................................................. 124 4.7. Information Provided .................................................................................. 124 4.8. Quality Evaluation ...................................................................................... 124 4.8.1 Performance Monitoring Report ................................................................. 124 4.8.2 Satisfaction Survey .................................................................................. 126 2 RAIL FREIGHT CORRIDOR 6 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2017 5. Objectives / Performance ........................................................................... 127 6. Investment Plan ......................................................................................... 132 6.1. List of Projects ........................................................................................... 134 Spain ............................................................................................................... 134 France ............................................................................................................. 140 France – Italy ................................................................................................... 145 Italy ................................................................................................................ 146 Slovenia ........................................................................................................... 150 Croatia ............................................................................................................. 153 Hungary ........................................................................................................... 154 6.2. Deployment Plan ........................................................................................ 158 6.3. Capacity Management Plan.......................................................................... 170 6.4. Reference to Union Contribution .................................................................. 172 3 RAIL FREIGHT CORRIDOR 6 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2017 1. INTRODUCTION In order to meet market needs, the methods for establishing a freight corridor is presented in an Implementation Plan, which includes identifying and setting a schedule for measures which would improve the performance of rail freight. Regulation (EU) 913/2010, adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on 22 September 2010, entered into force on 9th November 2010, enacting the establishment of international rail corridors for a European rail network for competitive freight, with the overall purpose of increasing international rail freight attractiveness and efficiency. The Annex to the Regulation has been replaced by the text of Annex II to the Regulation (EU) 1316/2013. A list of 9 initial corridors is annexed to Regulation, providing their respective latest implementation date (2013 and 2015). Rail Freight Corridors are going to reconcile various types of existing corridors, such as ERTMS- and RNE-corridors (Art. 4(b)). They are also expected to be integrated in the TEN-T Network, in the framework of the new concept of Core Transport Network introduced by the EC proposal “on Union guidelines for the development of the Trans- European Transport Network” of 24th October 2011 which has pre-identified 10 core network corridors for the financing period 2014-2020. The establishment of international rail corridors for a European rail network can be considered as the most suitable method to meet specific needs in identified segments of the freight market on which freight trains can run under high service quality standards and easily pass from one national network to another thanks to the respect of interoperability requirements. The creation of an European rail freight market is also an essential factor in making progress towards sustainable mobility and its opening, from 1 January 2007, achieved the aim of stimulating competition, making it possible for new operators to enter rail network. Nevertheless, it seems that market mechanisms are not ensuring a sufficient range of quality of rail freight traffic, so the Rail Freight Corridors Regulation is addressing the need of additional procedures to strengthen cooperation on international capacity allocation thus optimizing the use of the network and improving its reliability. Coordination among infrastructure managers on investment and on the management of capacities and traffic has to be optimized in order to provide consistency and continuity along the corridors. In that regard specific measures need to be adopted for removing bottlenecks and overcoming cross-border difficulties. Rail freight services are more and more requiring a high quality and sufficiently financed railway infrastructure, so Rail Freight Corridors are aimed to improve traffic conditions in terms of reliability and punctuality, even in case of disturbance. The establishment of Rail Freight Corridors has the general objective of improving the conditions for international rail freight by reinforcing cooperation at all levels, and especially among Infrastructure Managers. The main targets are: increasing the infrastructure capacity and performance in order to meet market demand both quantitatively and qualitatively; improving the quality of the service in order to meet customer needs. 4 RAIL FREIGHT CORRIDOR 6 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2017 Specific objectives can be summarized as follows: 1) increasing the rail competitiveness and market share on the European Transport Market; 2) increasing the modal shift