Rhine-Alpine
Corridor
Presentation of the corridor work plan
by the European Coordinator
Mr Pawel Wojciechowski
Hearing in the European Parliament,
Brussels, 13 October 2015
Transport
Corridor characteristics (1)
● 5 Member States and
Switzerland
● 13 urban nodes
● 11 airports
● 8 seaports
● 22 inland ports
● 20 Rail-Road Terminals
Transport
Corridor
characteristics
(2)
The freight modal split
(cross-border traffic in
2010)
• 54% - inland
waterways
• 34% - road
• 12% - rail
Transport
Corridor process in 2014 - 2015
• 4 Corridor Forum meetings with gradually increasing
number of stakeholders
• 2 working group meetings (IWW/Ports, Regions)
• Several bilateral meetings and missions along the
corridor by the former and the new European Coordinator
• Corridor meeting during the TEN-T Days in Riga in June
2015: presentation of the corridor work plan to a wider
Transport
Main outputs so far
 Corridor study with detailed analysis of the corridor,
including a multi-modal transport market study
 TENtec maps illustrating compliance of corridor
infrastructure with TEN-T standards
 List of projects planned to be implemented along
the corridor by 2030
...which led to:
 A corridor work plan presented by the European
Coordinator and unanimously approved by all MS
in May 2015
Transport
Corridor work plan: agreed priorities
Amsterdam
1. Improving compliance with the TEN-T
requirements, mostly for rail (including
ERTMS) and inland waterways;
Rotterdam
Roads
Moerdijk
IWW
Nijmegen
Vlissingen
Zeebrugge
2. Implementing the large rail cross-border
projects between NL-DE, DE-CH and CH-IT;
Duisburg
Antwerpen
Urban nodes
Airports
Düsseldorf
Albertkanaal
Ghent
Maritime ports
Köln
Brussels
Inland ports
Liege
Rail - Road terminals
Koblenz
Frankfurt M.
Mainz
Mannheim/
Ludwigshafen
Mertert
3. Promote innovative solutions (RIS, ITS,
deployment of LNG infrastructure;
4. Reduce external effects of transport, in
particular the rail noise pollution;
Railways
Utrecht
Karlsruhe
Strasbourg
Mulhouse
Aarau /
Basel
Rekingen
Birrfeld
Zürich
Bern
5. Maintain existing infrastructure in good
condition, in particular road and inland
waterways;
Chiasso
Novara
Milano
6. Investing in ERTMS along the corridor.
Genova
Transport
High investment needs
● 175 projects (including 30 in Switzerland) have been identified
which would be needed for the development of the Rhine-Alpine
Corridor until 2030
● Estimated total volume of investments of around 60 billion EUR
● Examples of key projects:
o Karlsruhe-Basel: >6 billion EUR
o Zevenaar-Emmerich-Oberhausen: >2 billion EUR
o Chiasso-Milano: >1.4 billion EUR
Transport
Project list
 Corridors shall facilitate the coordinated
implementation of the Core Network
 List of CEF in Annex I, part I, with pre-identified projects
 List of projects resulting from the work on the Corridors is
obviously longer: more detailed sectioning, studies and works
 The long list has a focus up till 2030, date of completion of
the Core Network
 The CEF Annex runs up till 2020
 There is no direct link between the two lists: being in the long
list is not a guarantee for financial support and vice-versa
Transport
Recommended CEF funding per corridor
Rhine - Danube
€2,148.4 M
Scandinavian - Mediterranean
€1,917.3 M
North Sea - Baltic
€1,753.2 M
North Sea - Mediterranean
€1,604.2 M
Mediterranean
€1,282.6 M
Baltic - Adriatic
€1,027.4 M
Atlantic
€946.1 M
Orient/East-Med
€832.5 M
€610.5 M
Rhine - Alpine
0
500
1,000
MAP
Cohesion
Transport
1,500
AP
2,000
2,500
Rhine – Alpine
CEF funding per section/mode
Karlsruhe - Basel
€354.3M (1)
Rotterdam - Zevenaar
€59.9M (1)
Basel - Antwerpen/Rotterdam - Amsterdam
€58.2M (4)
Genova - Milano/Novara - CH border
€43.0M (2)
Other
€40.5M (6)
Zevenaar - Emmerich - Oberhausen
€32.7M (1)
Frankfurt - Mannheim
€15.8M (4)
Genova
€4.7M (1)
Zeebrugge - Gent - Antwerpen - DE border
€1.5M (1)
( ) = Number of projects
0
RAIL
ERTMS
50
ITS
100
INTEROPERABILITY
150
NODES
PORT
Transport
200
MULTIMODAL
250
ROAD
300
INNOVATION
350
IWW
400
Thank you for your attention
Transport