Hearing in the European Parliament, 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

Corridor characteristics (1) 5 Member States and Switzerland 13 urban nodes 11 airports 8 seaports 22 inland ports 20 Rail-Road Terminals

Corridor characteristics (2) The freight modal split (cross-border traffic in 2010) 54% - inland waterways 34% - road 12% - rail

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

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

Corridor work plan: agreed priorities Mainz Ghent Albertkanaal Zeebrugge Nijmegen Amsterdam Rotterdam Duisburg Köln Brussels Antwerpen Frankfurt M. Mannheim/ Ludwigshafen Karlsruhe Strasbourg Milano Genova Urban nodes Düsseldorf Liege Novara Airports Maritime ports Inland ports Rail - Road terminals Vlissingen Moerdijk Utrecht Basel Bern Mulhouse Chiasso Aarau / Birrfeld Rekingen Zürich Railways Roads IWW Mertert Koblenz Improving compliance with the TEN-T requirements, mostly for rail (including ERTMS) and inland waterways; Implementing the large rail cross-border projects between NL-DE, DE-CH and CH-IT; Promote innovative solutions (RIS, ITS, deployment of LNG infrastructure; Reduce external effects of transport, in particular the rail noise pollution; Maintain existing infrastructure in good condition, in particular road and inland waterways; Investing in ERTMS along the corridor.

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: Karlsruhe-Basel: >6 billion EUR Zevenaar-Emmerich-Oberhausen: >2 billion EUR Chiasso-Milano: >1.4 billion EUR

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

Recommended CEF funding per corridor

Rhine – Alpine CEF funding per section/mode

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