Pan-European corridors
The Pan-European transport corridors were designed at three conferences of European Ministers of Transport. At the conference in Prague in 1991, the required transport infrastructure and the corridor concept has been established. In Crete (1994 ), participants from Western, Central and Eastern Europe named nine corridors that are to be given priority in terms of infrastructure development. At the conference in Helsinki in 1997, a tenth corridor and important for the transport of goods to ports came.
These so-called " Helsinki corridors " as part of the larger Trans-European Transport Network ( TEN) comprise 48,000 km Freight traffic routes, of which 25,000 km by rail and 23,000 km on the road. Airports, seaports and inland ports and main railway stations are the multi-modal connection points for the long-range connections between the Central and Eastern European countries.
Between October 2004 and November 2005, the European Commission set up the High Level Working Group II under the direction of Loyola de Palacio, who should establish a limited number of major routes between the European Union and its neighboring countries. At the Working Group, the 25 EU member states plus Bulgaria and Romania, 26 neighboring states and the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank have participated.
Implementation
This concept is intended to promote the building of a future pan-European transport network, which both the actual territory of the EU (2003 ), the (then ) candidate countries, including the successor states of the Soviet Union and other countries. The transportation network includes the following components:
- In the field of EU's Trans-European Transport Network (TEN)
- The TINA network ( Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment ) consisting of the ten corridors and other facilities of the candidate countries in 2004.
- The corridors in the area of future candidate countries, the successor States and other countries.
- As well as the Asia- compounds, in particular TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe- Caucasus -Asia )
Participating States
Corridor I
- Helsinki: space closure not yet been determined by ferry or tunnel
- Tallinn - Riga - Kaunas - Warsaw
- Branch IA: Riga - Kaliningrad - Gdansk
- 1655 km rail
- 1630 km road
Remarks: as Rail Baltica ( project TEN- V27 ) delayed the start of construction
Corridor II
Corridor III
- Dresden - Wroclaw - Lviv - Kiev
- Branch: Berlin - Wroclaw
- 1650 km rail
- 1700 km road
Remarks: Görlitz -Dresden railway line, railway line Węgliniec - Görlitz railway Miłkowice - Jasień, Niederschlesisch - märkische Railway
Corridor IV
- Dresden - Prague - Bratislava / Vienna - Budapest - Arad
- Branch: Nuremberg - Prague
- Branch: Arad - Bucharest - Constanta
- Branch: Arad - Sofia - Istanbul
- Branch: Sofia - Thessaloniki
- 4340 km rail
- 3640 km road
Corridor V
- Venice - Koper - Ljubljana - Budapest - Uzhgorod - Lviv
- Branch: Rijeka - Zagreb - Budapest
- Branch: Ploce - Sarajevo - Budapest
- Branch: Bratislava ( Slovakia) - Žilina - Uzhhorod
- 3270 km rail
- 2850 km road
Corridor VI
- Danzig - Grudziądz - Katowice - Žilina
- Branch: GRUDZIADZ - Poznan
- Branch: Zebrzydowice - Ostrava
- 1800 km rail
- 1880 km road
Corridor VII
- Danube between Regensburg mouth and 2415 km
Corridor VIII
This east-west corridor links the Adriatic Sea (Pan - European Transport Area Adriatic - Ionian Sea ) and the Black Sea (Pan - European Transport Area Black Sea ) on the south- eastern Balkan Peninsula. The distance over Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria is 1270 km by rail, by road 960 km. It runs from the port city of Durres on Tirana, Skopje and Sofia to the ports of Varna and Burgas.
Corridor IX
- Helsinki - Saint Petersburg - Pskov - Kiev - Ljubasewka - Chisinau - Bucharest - Alexandroupolis
- Branch 2003: Klaipeda / Kaliningrad - Vilnius - Minsk - Kiev
- Branch 2003: Ljubasevka - Odessa
- 6500 km rail
- 5820 km road
Corridor X
This 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.
The road through the states of the former Yugoslavia corresponds entirely to the path of the Autoput.