Before the final approval of the ExBo Corridor Information Document Book 5 Implementation Plan 2017/2018 timetable year 1 Table of Contents 1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Legal Background .................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Aim of the Implementation Plan ............................................................................................. 4 1.3 Aim of RFC 7 Members ............................................................................................................ 5 2. Corridor Description .............................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Key Parameters of Corridor Lines .......................................................................................... 14 2.2 Connections with other Corridors ......................................................................................... 14 2.3 Corridor Terminals ................................................................................................................. 15 2.4 Bottlenecks ............................................................................................................................ 15 2.5 RFC Governance .................................................................................................................... 16 Executive Board ................................................................................................................................. 16 Management Board........................................................................................................................... 17 Working Groups ................................................................................................................................ 18 RFC 7 Corridor One-Stop Shop .......................................................................................................... 19 Secretariat ......................................................................................................................................... 20 Advisory Groups ................................................................................................................................ 21 EU level cooperation ......................................................................................................................... 22 Marketing & communications ........................................................................................................... 24 3. Essential Elements of the Transport Market Study ............................................................... 26 The following information is still relevant to the results of the first Transport Market Study due to the fact that the update procedure is ongoing and will only be finished by the end of 2017. 28 Analysis of the “as-is” situation ......................................................................................................... 28 Comparison of road and rail transport performances ................................................................ 28 Comparison of infrastructure access charges ............................................................................... 29 Capacity analysis ............................................................................................................................ 30 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................................... 31 3.1 Estimated Changes of Transport Flows ................................................................................. 33 Traffic volume scenarios ................................................................................................................ 33 Risks of prognosis .......................................................................................................................... 34 3.2 Socio-Economic Benefits Stemming from the Establishment of RFC 7 ................................. 34 Reduction of waiting times at the borders .................................................................................... 35 Financial evaluation of external costs (macro level) ..................................................................... 37 3.3 Expected Impact of Planned Investments ............................................................................. 37 3.4 Conclusion of TMS ................................................................................................................. 40 2 Definition of Pre-arranged Paths of RFC7 ..................................................................................... 41 3.5 Utilization of Comments Made by Advisory Groups ............................................................. 42 4. List of measures .................................................................................................................. 46 4.1 Coordination of Planned Temporary Capacity Restrictions .................................................. 46 4.2 Corridor OSS .......................................................................................................................... 46 Requirements Defined by Regulation 913/2010 ............................................................................... 46 Documentation related to the RFC 7 C-OSS ................................................................................. 47 Tasks of the C-OSS ...................................................................................................................... 47 Based on Article 12 of Regulation 913/2010 ..................................................................................... 47 Based on Article 13 of Regulation 913/2010 ..................................................................................... 48 Based on Article 16 of Regulation 913/2010 ..................................................................................... 48 Based on Article 17 of Regulation 913/2010 ..................................................................................... 48 Customer Confidentiality .................................................................................................................. 49 4.3 Capacity Allocation Principles ............................................................................................... 49 4.4 Applicants .............................................................................................................................. 49 4.5 Traffic Management .............................................................................................................. 50 4.6 Traffic Management in the Event of Disturbance ................................................................. 50 4.7 Information Provided ............................................................................................................ 50 4.8 Quality Evaluation ................................................................................................................. 51 4.8.1 Performance Monitoring Report ................................................................................... 51 4.8.2 User Satisfaction Survey ................................................................................................ 53 5. Objectives/Performance ..................................................................................................... 53 Performance objectives - quality of service .................................................................................... 53 Performance objectives - capacity of the corridor .......................................................................... 54 Promoting compatibility between performance schemes ................................................................ 54 6. Investment Plan .................................................................................................................. 54 6.1 List of Projects ....................................................................................................................... 54 6.2 Deployment Plan ................................................................................................................... 54 Interoperability & ERTMS WG ....................................................................................................... 55 Statute of the Interoperability & ERTMS WG ................................................................................ 55 Activities and coordination issues of the WG ............................................................................... 55 Implementation of the ETCS on the RFC 7 line sections ............................................................... 56 Implementation of the ETCS on-board .......................................................................................... 58 6.3 Capacity Management Plan ................................................................................................... 58 6.4 Reference to Union Contribution .......................................................................................... 59 3 1. Introduction 1.1 Legal Background The Commission of the European Union proposed in 2008 the creation of a European rail network for competitive freight, consisting of international corridors. The aim is to achieve reliable and good quality railway freight services to be able to compete