Pan-European Corridor X

The Pan-European Corridor X is one of the ten routes of Pan-European transport corridors. The Corridor X connects Central with South-East Europe and the Middle East. From Austria it leads to Greece and has four sub-branches. Salzburg is the starting point, the goal of Thessaloniki. Long stretches of the route runs through the states of the former Yugoslavia along the Autoput Bratstvo i jedinstvo. The Corridor X was added after the end of hostilities in the former Yugoslavia at a conference in Helsinki in 1997 the European transport planning. The Corridor X includes both rail ( 2528 km ) and long-distance road transport (2300 km).

  • 3.1 Slovenia
  • 3.2 Croatia
  • 3.3 Serbia

Planning and development

The Corridor X was established in 1997 at the Conference of European Ministers of Transport ( ECMT / CEMT ) in Helsinki. The multimodal transport route runs from northwest to southeast and connects Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Hungary with Greece and Bulgaria. The main axis is Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Nis - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki with the sub-branches:

  • Branch A: Graz - Maribor - Zagreb;
  • Branch B: Budapest - Novi Sad - Belgrade,
  • Branch C: Niš - Sofia with connection to Corridor IV to Istanbul;
  • Branch D: Veles - Bitola - Florina - Kozani - Egnatia - Igoumenitsa.

Part of the corridor is about 2528 km railways, 2300 km roads, twelve airports and four seaports and inland ports.

Road

Slovenia

In Slovenia, corresponds to the road corridor from the A2 motorway runs from Karawankentunnel ( border to Austria ) at Jesenice via Ljubljana and Novo mesto by Obrežje to the Croatian border. The circuit is developed as a four-lane highway since October 2011 and as a European Route 61 ( Jesenice to Ljubljana) and European route 70 (Ljubljana to Obrežje ) signposted.

Croatia

In Croatia, corresponding to the A3 motorway and road corridor runs from the Slovenian border at Bregana via Zagreb and Slawonski Brod to Lipovac the Serbian border. After 2006, the last section of the 306 km long A3 was released, the entire route is now being expanded at least as a four-lane highway. It is also signposted as European route 70.

Serbia

By Serbia of the road Corridor X runs on the following routes:

Batrovci, Sid (border Croatia) - Belgrade - Tabanovce, Presevo ( border with Macedonia), the sub-branches in Serbia are:

  • Branch B: Horgoš, Subotica ( Hungarian border ) - Belgrade and
  • Branch C: Niš - Gradina, Dimitrovgrad ( border with Bulgaria).

The route of the Corridor X in Serbia comprises the following European highways

  • E70: section Batrovci, Sid (border to Croatia - Belgrade )
  • E75: section Horgoš, Subotica ( Hungarian border ) - Belgrade - Tabanovce, Presevo ( border with Macedonia)
  • E80: section Niš - Gradina, Dimitrovgrad ( border with Bulgaria)

The road Corridor X in Serbia is occupied by the former Autoput Bratstvo i jedinstvo the SFR Yugoslavia. This was completed only in sections. We are currently working on twelve stages. In particular, the sub-branches missing south and west of Niš. As part of the road corridor X 69 km long ring road Belgrade Belgrade is bypassed. This is enabled in the first section in 2008, and completion is scheduled for 2011.

Macedonia

In Macedonia, corresponds to the road corridor of the M1 Avtopat and runs from the Serbian border at Tabanovce about Kumanovo and Veles to Gevgelija on the Greek border. The entire route is signposted as European route 75.

Greece

In Greece, the road corridor of the A1 motorway and runs from the Macedonian border at Evzoni to Thessaloniki. The entire route is signposted as European route 75.

Railway

Slovenia

The railway line runs from the Karawankentunnel via Jesenice, Kranj, Ljubljana to the Slovenian-Croatian border at Dobova. Only the Karawankentunnel and the section between Ljubljana and Zidani Most are running two tracks. The route is electrified from Jesenice to Dobova with 3 kV DC.

Croatia

The railway line runs from Dobova to the Slovenian border via Zagreb to Tovarnik to the Serbian border. The Croatian section of the railway corridor X corresponds entirely to the former rail Bratstva i Jedinstva, and the total trip distance is electrified on the basis 25kV/50Hz since 1970. However, to date only a single track sections are designed and therefore not yet developed as a high-speed lines. The time to maximum driving speed of 160 km / h where sections have been expanded up to 200 km / hr.

Serbia

Rail Corridor X is completely covered by Serbia, but does not meet European standards. An electrification of the relation Niš - Dimitrovgrad and, from 2013, planned, track doubling of the complete route make expansion of cost-intensive.

A2 motorway (Slovenia) Karawanks Tunnel (motorway) Municipality of Jesenice A3 (Croatia) Lipovac, Vukovar-Syrmia County Gradina, Virovitica-Podravina County Belgrade bypass Evzonoi Karawanks Tunnel (railway)
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