Trans-European Transport Network

The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is a planned network of roads, railways, airports and water infrastructure in the European Union. The TEN-T network is part of a wider system of Trans-European Networks (TENs), including a telecommunications network (eTEN) and a proposed energy network (TEN-E or Ten-Energy). The European Commission adopted the first action plans on trans-European networks in 1990.[1]

TEN-T envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways, inland waterways, airports, seaports, inland ports and traffic management systems, providing integrated and intermodal long-distance, high-speed routes. A decision to adopt TEN-T was made by the European Parliament and Council in July 1996.[2] The EU works to promote the networks by a combination of leadership, coordination, issuance of guidelines and funding aspects of development.

These projects are technically and financially managed by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), which superseded the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency Agency (TEN-T EA) on 31 December 2013. The tenth and newest project, the Strasbourg-Danube Corridor, was announced for the 2014–2020 financial period.[3]

History

TEN-T guidelines were initially adopted on 23 July 1996, with Decision No 1692/96/EC[2] of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network. In May 2001, the European Parliament and the Council adopted a Decision No 1346/2001/EC,[4] which amended the TEN-T Guidelines with respect to seaports, inland ports and intermodal terminals.

In April 2004, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Decision No 884/2004/EC (added to the list by Decision No 884/2004/EC[5]), amending Decision No 1692/96/EC on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network. The April 2004 revision was a more fundamental change to TEN-T policies, intended to accommodate EU enlargement and consequent changes in traffic flows.[6]

In 2017, it was decided that the Trans-European Transport Networks would be extended into Eastern Europe and would include Eastern Partnership member states.[7][8] The furthest eastern expansion of the Trans-European Transport Network reached Armenia in February 2019.[9]

Priority axes and projects

On 17 October 2013 nine projects were announced, afterwards increased to ten.[10] These were:

  1. the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor (Poland–Slovakia–Austria–Italy);
  2. the North Sea-Baltic Corridor (Finland–Estonia–Latvia–Lithuania–Poland–Germany–Netherlands/Belgium);
  3. the Mediterranean Corridor (Spain–France–Northern Italy–Slovenia–Croatia–Hungary);
  4. the Orient/East-Med Corridor (Germany–Czech Republic–Hungary–Romania–Bulgaria–Greece–Cyprus);
  5. the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor (Finland–Sweden–Denmark–Germany–Austria–Italy);
  6. the Rhine-Alpine Corridor (Netherlands/Belgium–Germany–Switzerland–Italy);
  7. the Lisboa-Strasbourg Corridor (Portugal–Spain–France);
  8. the North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor (Ireland–UK–Netherlands–Belgium–Luxembourg–south of France, because of Brexit changed to Ireland–Belgium-Netherlands and Ireland–France);
  9. the Rhine-Danube Corridor[11] (Germany–Austria–Slovakia–Hungary–Romania, waterway focus);
  10. the Strasbourg-Danube Corridor (Strasbourg–Mannheim–Frankfurt–Würzburg–Nürnberg–Regensburg–Passau–Wels/Linz–Wien–Budapest–Arad–Brašov–Bucurešti–Constanta-Sulina).[12]

Core Networks

This is the complete list of the TEN-T Core Network Corridors.[13][14]

CorridorName[15]FromViaToLength
1Baltic–Adriatic Corridor Gdynia Vienna Ravenna2400 km[15]
2North Sea–Baltic Corridor Helsinki Warsaw Antwerp3200 km[16]
3Mediterranean Corridor Algeciras Lyons – Venice Miskolc~ 3000 km[15]
4Orient/East–Med Corridor Hamburg Budapest – Sofia Nicosia~ 3700 km
5Scandinavian–Mediterranean Corridor Helsinki Copenhagen – Munich Valletta4858 km
6Rhine–Alpine Corridor Genoa Cologne Rotterdam
7Atlantic Corridor Lisboa Vitoria Strasbourg
8North Sea–Mediterranean Corridor Dublin Cork – Le Havre Brussel933 km
9Rhine–Danube Corridor Amsterdam Luxembourg Marseille
10Seine–Danube Corridor Strasbourg Budapest Constanța[17]2137 km

Funding timeline

Financial support for the implementation of TEN-T guidelines stems from the following rules:

  • Regulation (EC) No 2236/95[18] of 18 September 1995 contains general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of trans-European networks.
  • Regulation (EC) No 1655/1999[19] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 July 1999 amends Regulation (EC) No 2236/95.
  • Regulation (EC) No 807/2004[20] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 amends Council Regulation (EC) No 2236/95.
  • Regulation (EC) No 680/2007[21] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 supplies general rules for granting Community financial aid for trans-European transport and energy networks.

In general, TEN-T projects are mostly funded by national or state governments. Other funding sources include: European Community funds (ERDF, Cohesion Funds, TEN-T budget), loans from international financial institutions (e.g. the European Investment Bank), and private funding.

List of transport networks

Each transportation mode has a network. The networks are:[2]

Previous priorities

At its meeting in Essen in 1994, the European Council endorsed a list of 14 TEN-T ‘specific’ projects, drawn up by a group chaired by then Commission Vice-President Henning Christophersen.[1] Following the 2003 recommendations from the Van Miert TEN-T high-level group, the Commission compiled a list of 30 priority projects to be launched before 2010.[22]

The 30 axes and priority projects were:[23]

  1. Railway axis Berlin–Verona/Milan–Bologna–Naples–Messina–Palermo
  2. High-speed railway axis Paris–Brussels–Cologne–Amsterdam–London
  3. High-speed railway axis of south-west Europe
  4. High-speed railway axis east
  5. Betuwe line
  6. Railway axis Lyon-Trieste-Divača/Koper-Divača-Ljubljana-Budapest-Ukrainian border[22]:34
  7. Motorway axis Igoumenitsa/Patras–Athens–Sofia–Budapest
  8. Multimodal axis Portugal/Spain–rest of Europe
  9. Railway axis Cork–Dublin–Belfast–Stranraer
  10. Malpensa Airport
  11. Øresund Bridge
  12. Nordic triangle railway/road axis
  13. United Kingdom/Ireland/Benelux road axis
  14. West Coast Main Line
  15. Galileo
  16. Freight railway axis Sines/Algeciras-Madrid-Paris
  17. Railway axis Paris–Strasbourg–Stuttgart–Vienna–Bratislava
  18. Rhine/Meuse–Main–Danube inland waterway axis
  19. High-speed rail interoperability on the Iberian peninsula
  20. Fehmarn belt railway axis
  21. Motorways of the Sea
  22. Railway axis Athens–Sofia–Budapest–Vienna–Prague– Nuremberg/Dresden
  23. Railway axis Gdansk–Warsaw–Brno/Bratislava–Vienna
  24. Railway axis Lyons/Genoa–Basle–Duisburg–Rotterdam/Antwerp
  25. Motorway axis Gdansk–Brno/Bratislava–Vienna
  26. Railway/road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/continental Europe
  27. Rail Baltic axis Warsaw–Kaunas–Riga–Tallinn–Helsinki
  28. EuroCap-Rail on the Brussels–Luxembourg–Strasbourg railway axis
  29. Railway axis of the Ionian/Adriatic intermodal corridor
  30. Inland waterway Seine–Scheldt

As of 2019, several of them are finished, e.g. no 2, 5 and 11, other are ongoing e.g. no 12 and 17, and some are not started, e.g no 20 and 27.

In addition to the various TENs, there are ten Pan-European corridors, which are paths between major urban centres and ports, mainly in Eastern Europe, that have been identified as requiring major investment.

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See also

References
  1. timeline of TEN-T priority axes and projects as of 2005 Archived 18 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, p. 7, PDF document, 14 MB
  2. Decision No 1692/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network
  3. "Improving infrastructure & framework conditions for Danube - Requirements from an Industry viewpoint" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 14 February 2020. Danube as new corridor “Strasbourg – Danube” in TEN T successor “CEF – Connecting Europe facility”
  4. Decision No 1346/2001/EC
  5. Decision No 884/2004/EC
  6. here (13 MB) Archived 31 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Ukraine joins Trans-European Transport Networks, UNIAN (27 November 2017)
  10. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-897_en.htm
  11. "Corridors - European Commission". Europa. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  12. "PART I: LIST OF PRE-IDENTIFIED PROJECTS ON THE CORE NETWORK IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPORT" (PDF). televideo.rai.it. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  13. "TEN-T Core Network Corridors". green-ten-t.eu. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  14. "TRANS-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT NETWORK" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  15. "Corridor descriptions - European Commission - Europa EU" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 15 February 2020. This 3200 km long corridor will connect the ports of the Eastern shore of the Baltic Sea with the ports of the North Sea.
  16. "North Sea-Baltic Corridor" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  17. "Rhine-Danube". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 13 February 2020. ...passing through the Romanian capital Bucharest to culminate at the Black Sea port of Constanta.
  18. Council Regulation (EC) No 2236/95 of 18 September 1995 laying down general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of trans-European networks
  19. Regulation (EC) No 1655/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 July 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2236/95 laying down general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of trans-European networks
  20. Regulation (EC) No 807/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2236/95 laying down general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of trans-European networks
  21. Regulation (EC) No 680/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 laying down general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of the trans-European transport and energy networks
  22. EC web site with links to the complete Van Miert reports, plus annexes and maps Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  23. "Innovation and Networks Executive Agency - European Commission". Innovation and Networks Executive Agency. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
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