MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2021/2022 MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2022 Version control Evolution Index Date Modification / comments Written by General Update including the new V2Dec2016 2 December 2016 PMO line Nimes Montpellier V09Jan2017 09 January 2017 Executive Board Comments PMO Línea Figueras Perpignan S.A. took V19Jan2017 19 January 2017 over the Infrastructure Manager PMO competencies from TP FERRO V24Febr2017 24 February 2017 SZ-I contact update PMO V08Jan2018 08 January 2018 Yearly update PMO V26Jan2018 26 January 2018 New maps PMO MED RFC GA approval new V11Oct2018 11 October 2018 PMO member joined V4Dec2018 4 December 2018 New maps PMO V26Apr2019 26 April 2019 Correction of misspellings PMO V18Nov2019 18 November 2019 RFI List of Projects update PMO MED RFC GA approval of the yearly updates of technical parameters, bottlenecks in Chapter 2 and list of V03Dec2019 3 December 2019 PMO projects, ERTMS deployment and forecasts for 2025 and 2030 in Chapter 6. V5Febr2020 5 February 2020 SZ-I List of Projects update PMO V26August2020 26 August 2020 Correction of misspellings PMO MED RFC GA approval of the yearly V08Dec2020 8 December 2020 updates in Chapter 2 and in PMO Chapter 6 MED RFC GA approval of Transport V08Dec2020 8 December 2020 PMO Market Study update in Chapter 3 MED RFC ExBo approval of Market V11Jan2021 11 January 2021 PMO Analysis Study update in Chapter 3 Correction of typos in Market V18Jan2021 18 January 2021 PMO Analysis Study update in Chapter 3 V22Jan2021 22 January 2021 RFI representation update PMO MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2022 Correction of typos in List of V8Febr2021 8 February 2021 PMO Measures in Chapter 4 MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2022 Table of Contents Version control ..................................................................................................... 2 1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 6 2 Corridor Description .................................................................................... 9 2.1 Key Parameters of Corridor Lines 10 2.1.1 Spain 18 2.1.2 France 20 2.1.3 Italy 21 2.1.4 Slovenia 21 2.1.5 Croatia 22 2.1.6 Hungary 22 2.2 Corridor Terminals 24 2.3 Bottlenecks 25 2.4 RFC Governance 31 3 Market Analysis Study ............................................................................... 41 3.1 Background 41 3.2 Methodology 42 3.2.1 Scope and Perimeter of the study 42 3.2.2 Sources and data gathering for the study 44 3.2.3 Estimating flows in the market area for 2016 45 3.2.4 Forecasting flows by 2030 46 3.2.5 Methodological differences with the previous RFC transport market study 47 3.3 Current situation 48 3.3.1 Socio-economic context 48 3.3.2 Analysis of the current transport market along the Corridor 59 3.4 Projections 74 3.4.1 Macroeconomic evolution 74 3.4.2 Transport cost evolution 76 3.4.3 Forecast scenarios 78 3.5 Results 79 3.5.1 Results for Scenario 1 79 3.5.2 Results for Scenario 2 81 3.5.3 Results for Scenario 3 83 MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2022 3.5.4 Results for Scenario 4 85 3.5.5 Results for Scenario 5 87 3.5.6 Quick scenario comparison 89 3.5.7 Comparison of the results with the previous RFC transport market study 91 3.6 Conclusions and recommendations 93 4 List of Measures ........................................................................................ 94 4.1 Coordination of planned temporary capacity restrictions 94 4.2 Corridor OSS 94 4.3 Capacity Allocation Principles 95 4.4 Applicants 95 4.5 Traffic Management 101 4.6 Traffic Management in Event of Disturbance 101 4.7 Quality Evaluation 101 4.7.1 Performance Monitoring Report 101 4.7.2 User Satisfaction Survey 102 4.8 Corridor Information Document 104 5 Objectives and performance of the corridor ...............................................105 6 Investment Plan .......................................................................................109 6.1 Capacity Management Plan 110 6.2 List of Projects 114 6.3 Deployment Plan 141 6.4 Reference to Union Contribution 151 Annex - TELT ....................................................................................................152 MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2022 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 a 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 MEDITERRANEAN RFC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TT 2022 Specific objectives can be summarized as follows: ➢ increasing the rail competitiveness and market share on the European Transport Market ➢ increasing the modal shift from road towards rail in order to achieve environmental benefits (in terms of reduction of gas emissions and of roads and highways congestion) ➢ planning a corridor approach to infrastructure investment, with the aim to overcome cross-border difficulties and to remove bottlenecks ➢ developing intermodal freight terminals ➢ promoting interoperability along the network as defined in Directive 2008/57/EC and its following amendments ➢ coordinating the development of the network, in particular as regards the integration of the international corridors for rail freight into the existing and the future TEN-T corridors ➢ ensuring efficient capacity allocation, through a corridor-oriented One-Stop-Shop applying smooth, flexible and transparent processes for assuring reliable train paths to rail freight undertakings ➢ optimizing the quality of the service and the capacity of the freight corridors, by means of strategies and tools aimed to improve punctuality and to monitor results through performance monitoring and satisfaction surveys ➢ minimising the overall network recovery time through definition of priority rules and optimal coordination of traffic management Among the nine initial corridors envisaged by EU Regulation 913/2010, Mediterranean RFC Almeria- Valencia / Madrid-Zaragoza / Barcelona-Marseille-Lyon-Turin-Milan-Verona-Padua / Venice-Trieste / Koper-Ljubljana-Budapest- Záhony, the (“Mediterranean RFC”) is the most interconnected corridor in Europe, since it is crossed by 6 other freight corridors (1,2,3,4,5,7). In line with the Regulation (EU) 1316/2013 Mediterranean RFC has been extended as follows: Effective 1st of January 2015. Almeria-Valencia / Algeciras / Madrid-Zaragoza / Barcelona-Marseille- Lyon-Turin-Milano-Verona-Padua / Venice-Trieste / Koper- Ljubljana-Budapest-Záhony.