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Criteria for prioritization of projects
By Michalis P. Adamantiadis
UNECE Regional Adviser on Transport
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Background
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The countries have investment needs
They are competing for scarce resources
They provided their investment activities
The 1st EGM agreed that proposed
projects should be prioritized on the basis
of set criteria
Therefore it is necessary to set criteria
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Experience of project prioritization
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The Pan-European Corridors concept
Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment (TINA)
Transport Infrastructure Study in Balkans (TIRS)
Regional Balkans Infrastructure Study (REBIS)
Van Miert High-Level Group on Trans-European Transport
Networks
• UNECE TEM and TER Projects Master Plan
• UNECE TEM and TER Master Plan Methodology for
project prioritization
• Prioritization of investments on the Asian Highway network
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The Pan-European Corridors concept
• Elaborated in concrete terms at the 2nd and 3rd PET Conferences
• Starting points the AGR, AGC, AGTC
Layer 1: Long term perspective, as reflected in AGR, AGC, AGTC
Layer 2: Medium-term corridors, for implementation up to 2010
Layer 3: Short-term priorities of Layer 2 for implementation in 5 years
• The description of Layer 2 Corridors is based in part on TEM and TER
networks and the following assumptions:
First: Every country in CEE should be touched at least one Corridor
Second: Corridors would be included if viable and be realized by 2010
Third: Corridors chosen should be consistent with network concept
• Operational criteria were developed, constituting a pre-screening
mechanism, based on those set by UNECE and the EC and drawing on
criteria used by the international financial institutions
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Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment
(TINA)
Completed in 1999 for 11 candidate countries to initiate the
development of multi-modal transport networks
• First stage: Concrete definition of on the network for
realization by 2015, taking into account expected economic
development of the countries concerned
• Second stage: Identification of investment measures by
which the identified network would be brought up to the
desired quality level
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Transport Infrastructure Study in Balkans(TIRS)
Delivered in 2002 for 7 Balkan countries to:
Identify major international and regional routes
Define a medium-term network
Define short-term priority projects
Multi-criteria analysis centered around socio-economic
return of investment, functionality and coherence.
Classified into 4 categories: (a) for rapid implementation (b)
necessitating additional analysis most worth-wile and well
defined (c) necessitating additional analysis most
questionable projects (d) discarded for the moment
Selection criteria were used, mostly based on TINA
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Regional Balkans Infrastructure Study (REBIS)
• Delivered in 2003 for 5 countries to prepare
short-term investment plans for priority
projects
• TIRS and TINA experiences used using a
two-step procedure
• First: Screening tool based on multi-criteria
• Second: for selected and screened projects,
pre-feasibility studies were carried out
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Van-Miert High-Level Group on TEN-T
• Presented its results in 2003
• To select a restricted number of priority projects on the transport
network of the expanded EU, up to 2020
• The methodology used was based in two stages:
First: To ensure overall coherence of projects, maturity, and country
commitment, on the basis of a number of criteria
Second: Assess the contribution of the projects to 3 Community policy
objectives:
Added value in facilitating the mobility between Member States
Contribution in territorial cohesion
Contribution to the sustainable development of transport
• Priority projects were divided into 3 categories:
• First: Limited number of priority projects to start before 2010
• Second and third : Less matured longer-term priority projects
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UNECE TEM and TER Projects Master Plan
•Started in 2003 and will be completed in November 2004,
focusing 21 countries
•To elaborate an investment strategy, as a complete backbone
road, rail and combined transport
•Built upon experiences
•Based on AGR, AGC, AGTC, TEM and TER standards
•For the work a prototype Methodology was used
•More than 350 projects proposed by the countries were
evaluated and prioritized
•More information on the methodology will be presented by its
author
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Proposed criteria and methodological framework
Pre-selection of projects, with 3 screening levels
1.International infrastructure standards, along EATL, removing bottlenecksmissing links, facilitating landlocked -countries, within national plans
2.Project is defined, management plan exists, environmental and socioeconomic aspects considered
3.Euro-Asian dimension, no less of $ 10 million, evidence of economic viability
Criteria for the selection of projects
International standards, EATL added value, contribution to sustainable
development
Horizontal Dimension: Functionality-Coherence
Vertical Dimension: Socio-economic efficiency and sustainability criteria
Project Priorities:
(Priority 1) Funded and implemented rapidly, up to 2010
(Priority 2) Requiring additional investigation , or implemented up to 2015
(Priority 3) Requiring further investigation, or implemented up to 2020
(Priority 4) Longer-term projects
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Thank you
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