Rhine-Alpine Core Network Corridor from the IWW perspective Łukasz Wojtas, European Commission Advisor to Dr Paweł Wojciechowski, European Coordinator Rhine-Alpine Core Network Corridor CCNR Round Table, Strasbourg, 2 March 2016 1
Content The Rhine-Alpine core network corridor IWW in the corridor Funding aspects 2
The Rhine-Alpine Core Network Corridor CCNR Round Table, Strasbourg, 2 March 2016 3
Nine core network corridors defined in the CEF Regulation 4 Transport
Corridor characteristics (1) 5 Member States and Switzerland 13 urban nodes 11 airports 8seaports 22 inland ports 20 Rail-Road Terminals Zeebrugge Rotterdam Moerdijk Vlissingen Ghent Brussels Amsterdam Nijmegen Antwerpen Albertkanaal Liege Aarau / Utrecht Mertert Strasbourg Mulhouse Koblenz Basel Birrfeld Bern Duisburg Düsseldorf Mainz Köln Novara Frankfurt M. Mannheim/ Ludwigshafen Karlsruhe Rekingen Zürich Urban nodes Airports Maritime ports Inland ports Rail Road terminals Chiasso Milano Railways Roads IWW Genova 5
Corridor characteristics(2) Over 1 billion tonnes of freight transported annually Corridor regions generate 19% of EU's GDP Corridor catchment area covers 13% of EU's population Presence of major industrial centres: chemical, pharmaceutical, steel, automobile, energy, 6
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 audience 7
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 8
Corridor work plan: agreed priorities 1. Improving compliance with certain TEN-T requirements, mostly for rail and IWW 2. Implementing the large rail cross-border projects 3. Investing in ERTMS along the corridor (currently 12% rate of deployment) 4. Reduce external effects of transport, in particular the rail noise pollution 5. Promote innovative solutions (RIS, ITS, deployment of LNG infrastructure) 6. Finally maintain existing infrastructure in good condition, in particular road and inland waterways 9
Planning 2015 2016 Organization of two Forum meetings in 2015 and three in 2016 with a view of the first revision of the work plan Definition of key performance indicators (KPI) Further development of the project list on the basis of KPIs Resulting in a full appraisal of the corridor and related projects and in the 1 st draft update of the corridor work plan in June 2016 (TEN-T Days) Approval of the updated work plan by the Member 10 States
Planning 2017-2018 Organization of two Forum meetings in 2017 and three in 2018 with a view to the second revision of the work plan Further work on the project list: missing projects to complete corridor, identification of projects suitable for IFI's, Deepening of corridor study: Plan for the removal of physical, technical and administrative barriers Analysis of the nodes Analysis of the corridor's potential for innovation deployment, its possible impact on climate change / GHG Reassessing market analysis on the basis of new data 2 nd update in 2018: Full corridor work plan in accordance with Article 47.1 (TEN-T Regulation) 11
IWW in the corridor CCNR Round Table, Strasbourg, 2 March 2016 12
Corridor characteristics - IWW Rhine, Moselle, Neckar IWW have a share of 25% of the total length of the corridor (rail 49%, road 26%) 54% of freight in cross-border traffic is transported by IWW (road 34%, rail 12%) 13
Compliance with IWW criteria (1) High compliance rate with TEN-T criteria: CEMT Class IV 100% compliant Minimum draught of 2,5 meters 82% compliant Minimum height under bridges of 5,25 meters 97% compliant RIS deployment Availability of alternative fuels Main issues identified in the work plan: Insufficient minimum draught on the Upper Rhine in Germany Insufficient minimum height under bridges in Switzerland Insufficient lock capacity on Neckar and Moselle Deployment of RIS and LNG infrastructure 14
IWW in the corridor by 2030 Relative growth (2010-2030) Without TEN-T interventions Relative growth (2010-2030) With TEN-T interventions Road 40% 36% Rail 41% 55% IWW 39% 41% 15
Funding of projects CCNR Round Table, Strasbourg, 2 March 2016 16
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 (of which 38 projects concerning IWW) Estimated total volume of investments of around 60 billion EUR by 2030 (of which close to 6 billion EUR of IWW projects) First CEF Call provided some 610 million EUR of funding (of which 5 million EUR for IWW projects) 17
Recommended CEF 2014 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 Rhine - Alpine 610.5 M 0 500 1 000 1 500 2 000 2 500 MAP Cohesion AP 18
Rhine Alpine CEF 2014 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 Zeebrugge - Gent - Antwerpen - DE border 4.7M (1) 1.5M (1) ( ) = Number of projects 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 RAIL ERTMS ITS INTEROPERABILITY NODES PORT MULTIMODAL ROAD INNOVATION IWW 19
CEF Call 2014 - IWW projects on the Rhine-Alpine corridor Pilot implementation of an Upper Rhine traffic management platform ~1 million EUR co-funding (50%) Safeguarding and adaptation of waterway access to the Rhine-Alpine and North Sea-Baltic corridors from the port of Cologne - ~2 million EUR co-funding (20%) New Multimodal Terminal of the Port of Strasbourg/Lauterbourg site - ~2 million EUR co-funding (20%) 20
CEF Call 2015 1.1 bln euro available under General envelope Most of the funding reserved for SESAR (515 million euro) and ERTMS (200 million euro) 60 million euro for innovation Including alternative fuels in IWW sector 10 million euro for RIS Objective: to deploy harmonised RIS (on-board and land-based) components to support traffic and transport management in inland navigation Co-funding rate up to 50% for land-based components and 20% for onboard components More information: inea-cef-transportcalls@ec.europa.eu 21
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