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Eastern Partnership regional transport study

Final report

Annex I – Data collection June 2015

THIS PROJECT IS

FUNDED BY THE EU

TRACECA IDEA II

Transport Dialogue and Networks Interoperability II

This document is prepared by the IDEA II Project.

The IDEA II Project is implemented by TRT Trasporti e Territorio in association with:

Panteia Group, Dornier Consulting GmbH and Lutsk University


TABLE OF CONTENT

1 ANNEX I – DATA COLLECTION ............................................................................................... 3

1.1 Approach .................................................................................................................. 3 1.1.1. Indicators ..............................................................................................................3 1.1.2. Data coverage ......................................................................................................4

2 DATA COLLECTED THROUGH NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS AND OFFICIAL SOURCES ............................. 7

2.1 Templates ................................................................................................................. 8 2.1.1. Road template ......................................................................................................8 2.1.2. Rail template ..................................................................................................... 12

2.2 Sources ................................................................................................................... 16 2.2.1. Road ................................................................................................................... 16 2.2.2. Railways ............................................................................................................. 16

3 DATA COLLECTED THROUGH DIRECT ROAD SURVEYS .................................................................. 18

3.1 Ukraine ................................................................................................................... 18 3.1.1. Survey on road quality ....................................................................................... 18

3.2 Belarus .................................................................................................................... 20 3.2.1. Survey on road quality ....................................................................................... 20 3.2.2. Traffic counts ..................................................................................................... 21

3.3 Armenia .................................................................................................................. 23 3.3.1. Survey on road quality ....................................................................................... 23 3.3.2. Traffic counts ..................................................................................................... 25


1 ANNEX I – DATA COLLECTION

1.1 APPROACH

Data collection for the EaP regional transport study was based on two main approaches:

The first one encompassed the active involvement of the IDEA country experts and EaP Transport Panel experts.

The second one encompassed the execution by the IDEA II project team of direct survey on road conditions for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova and road traffic counts in Belarus and Armenia.

Both approaches are described in the sections below.

1.1.1. INDICATORS

Data collection encompassed a first preparatory stage performed by the IDEA II project team which covered the identification of key infrastructure and traffic flows indicators to be collected for each transport mode. The list of indicators to be collected for rails and roads belonging to the EaP strategic network was developed following the indications received from DG MOVE and refined on the basis of indicators used by TEN-Tec. The final list of indicators, further refined on March 2015 according to the request of DG MOVE, is reported below.

Table 1 - List of railways indicators

Indicator Unit of measurement / Coding Status Existing / planned / under construction / to be upgraded Length Km Number of tracks Number Activity Passengers / freight / both Traction Electrified / Diesel Design speed km/h Max operating speed km/h Max axle load kN Maximum train length m Maximum inclination ‰

Freight traffic flow net tons per year trains per day

Passenger traffic flow pass per year trains per day

Table 2 - List of road indicators

Indicator Unit of measurement / Coding National name Name European route name Name Status Existing / planned / under construction / to be upgraded Type of road Single carriageway / expressway / motorway with separated

lanes Length Km Lanes numbers Design speed km/h Condition of the road high/medium/poor


Indicator Unit of measurement / Coding Freight traffic flow trucks per day Passenger traffic flow cars per day

The indicator “Condition of the road” takes into account on surface design and maintenance status, whereas:

High: Adequate surface condition with no hazard to traffic flow

Medium: Acceptable condition, no immediate action is required as shown in the picture

Poor: The road surface condition may pose risk to traffic flow and increased safety hazard.

1.1.2. DATA COVERAGE

This section presents an overview of data coverage of indicators for countries and transport modes. The overview tables reported below represent the percentage (expressed in terms of length of EaP network to be covered) of data coverage of each indicator at country level. In green are indicated those situations where coverage is higher than 70%; in yellow the situations where the coverage is between 50% and 70%; in red all those situations where either data coverage is below 50% or no data has been provided or collected.

Armenia and Belarus, where more problems were encountered in the data collection, are handled at the end of the section in dedicated tables.

1) AZERBAIJAN – GEORGIA – MOLDOVA - UKRAINE

Table 3 – EaP road network - Data availability overview

Nat

ion

al N

ame

Stat

us

Typ

e

Lan

es

Des

ign

sp

eed

(km

/h)

Co

nd

itio

n o

f th

e ro

ad

Frei

ght

traf

fic

flo

w

(tru

cks

per

day

)

Pas

sen

ger

traf

fic

flo

w

(car

s p

er d

ay)

2 Azerbaijan 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 73% 73%

4 Georgia 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 79%* 79%*

5 Moldova 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 75%* 75%*

6 Ukraine 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 99% 77% 0%

GOOD DATA COVERAGE

MEDIUM DATA COVERAGE

NO DATA PROVIDED OR INSUFFICIENT DATA COVERAGE

№ COUNTRY NAME

INFRASTRUCTURE TRAFFIC FLOWS

* Harmonised data


Table 4 – EaP rail network - Data availability overview

2) ARMENIA - BELARUS

Table 5 – EaP road network - Data availability overview

Direct surveys on road conditions and traffic counts performed by IDEA II project improved data availability in Armenia and Belarus.

Stat

us

Nu

mbe

r o

f tr

acks

Act

ivit

y

Tra

ctio

n

Des

ign

sp

eed

(km

/h)

Max

op

erat

ing

sp

eed

(km

/h)

Max

axl

e lo

ad (

kN)

Max

imu

m t

rain

leng

th

(m)

Max

imu

m in

clin

atio

n (%

)

Frei

ght

traf

fic

flo

w (

ton

s

pe

r ye

ar)

Fre

igh

t tr

affi

c flo

w

(tra

ins

per

da

y)

Pass

en

ger

traf

fic

flo

w

(pax

per

ye

ar)

Pas

sen

ger

tra

ffic

flo

w

(tra

ins

per

day

)

2 Azerbaijan 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%* 100%* 100%* 100%*

4 Georgia 100% 100% 100% 100% 76% 76% 76% 76% 76% 76% 76% 15% 15%*

5 Moldova 100% 100% 100% 100% 0% 45% 100% 80% 100% 80% 80%* 84% 84%*

6 Ukraine 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 0% 95% 0% 95% 0% 95%

GOOD DATA COVERAGE



* Harmonised data


Road Links - Data availability Overview

Nat

ion

al N

ame

Stat

us

Typ

e

Lan

es

Des

ign

sp

eed

(km

/h)

Co

nd

itio

n o

f th

e ro

ad

Frei

ght

traf

fic

flo

w

(tru

cks

per

day

)

Pas

sen

ger

traf

fic

flo

w

(car

s p

er d

ay)

1 Armenia 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 93% 93%3 Belarus 100% 100% 85% 100% 100% 100% 19% 19%

GOOD DATA COVERAGE



№ COUNTRY NAME



Table 6 – EaP rail network - Data availability overview

Stat

us

Nu

mbe

r o

f tr

acks

Act

ivit

y

Tra

ctio

n

Des

ign

sp

eed

(km

/h)

Max

op

erat

ing

sp

eed

(km

/h)

Max

axl

e lo

ad (

kN)

Max

imu

m t

rain

leng

th

(m)

Max

imu

m in

clin

atio

n (%

)

Frei

ght

traf

fic

flo

w (

ton

s

pe

r d

ay)

Fre

igh

t tr

affi

c flo

w

(tra

ins

per

da

y)

Pass

en

ger

traf

fic

flo

w

(pax

per

day

)

Pas

sen

ger

tra

ffic

flo

w

(tra

ins

per

day

)

1 Armenia 100% 100% 100% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

3 Belarus 100% 100% 100% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

GOOD DATA COVERAGE





2 DATA COLLECTED THROUGH NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS AND

OFFICIAL SOURCES

The involvement of the IDEA country experts and EaP Transport Panel experts (first approach) was structured along the following activities:

Establishing contact with TEN-Tec for receiving EaP transport network GIS files (shapefiles) and for assuring compatibility with indicators attributes;

Since received TEN TEC shapefiles didn’t include inland waterways, producing shapefiles representing the EaP inland waterway network and ports (according to the map received from the Commission);

On the basis of received TEN Tec shapefile, coding of network links to be collected and preparing of country maps with sections ID for road and rail;

Preparing excel templates for indicators collection and circulation to the country experts together with country maps;

Holding the TRACECA experts group meeting on 17-18 December 2014. Data collection approach was presented, official letters were sent to the Ministries along with the templates (in English and Russian). Submission dates were foreseen end of January 2015;

Follow up with country experts after the meeting;

Second round of data verification in February 2015;

Direct contact with Armenia during IGC meeting in Istanbul 27 January 2015;

Contact to Northern Dimension secretariat in February 2015;

Second Expert Group model base year workshop on 17-18 March 2015;

Expert group on inland waterways on 21 April 2015;

Data mining of IDEA II experts and where possible, filling of data gaps for key infrastructure indicators by using public sources.

Despite the efforts posed, the cooperation level of the various national administrations was quite diverse: as an example, data collection for Armenia and Belarus revealed to be very problematic. Where possible, data gaps for key infrastructure indicators were filled in by the IDEA II project team using public sources and, in some cases, direct surveys.

As far as concerns data quality, infrastructure data collected for Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan are to be considered of overall good quality since they have been generally provided by the national administrations; only in some cases minor additional investigations were performed by the project team in fulfilling missing information.

Problems of poor quality data applied only on some traffic flows information received by the national administrations and are mainly related to the misinterpretation of measurement units. These inconsistencies were either clarified by country experts or solved by the project team.


2.1 TEMPLATES

As already mentioned above, after the identification of key infrastructure and traffic flows indicators to be collected for each transport mode, Excel templates and country maps to be circulated between EaP national administrations were developed in order to facilitate the process of data collection. Here below developed templates and maps are reported.

2.1.1. ROAD TEMPLATE

The following Excel template supported data collection for EaP roads. Experts of national administrations were requested to fill in the table below for each elementary road section (i.e. section with homogeneous characteristics).

Figure 1 – Excel template supporting EaP road network data collection

Excel templates were accompanied by the following country maps developed on the basis of received TEN Tec shapefile and representing the EaP road network and links.

ROAD LINK N° NUMBER (from the map)ROAD LINK from LOCATION to LOCATIONFrom km a to km b INDICATOR UNITS / CODINGS

National NameStatus existing / planned / under constructionType single carriageway / expressway / motorway with separated lanes

LanesDesign speed (km/h) km/h

Condition of the road high / medium / poor

Number and length of tunnels

Road toll for cars Euro per km

Road toll for trucks Euro per km

Road toll for buses Euro per km

Long. Gradient (%) %INDICATOR VALUE YEAR UNITS / CODINGS

Freight traffic flow (tons per year) tons per year

Freight traffic flow (trucks per year) trucks per year

Passenger traffic flow (pax per year) pax per year

Passenger traffic flow (cars per year) cars per year

Number of accidents accidents per year

Number of fatalities fatalities per year

Number of injured injured per year

VALUE


Figure 2 – EaP road network in Belarus

Figure 3 – EaP road network in Ukraine


Figure 4 – EaP road network in Moldova

Figure 5 – EaP road network in Georgia


Figure 6 – EaP road network in Armenia

Figure 7 – EaP road network in Azerbaijan


2.1.2. RAIL TEMPLATE

The following excel template supported data collection for EaP railways. Experts of national administrations were requested to fill in the table below for each elementary rail section (i.e. section with homogeneous characteristics).

Figure 8 – Excel template supporting EaP rail network data collection

Excel templates were accompanied by the following country maps developed on the basis of received TEN Tec shapefile and representing the EaP rail network and links.

RAIL LINK N° NUMBER (from the map)RAIL LINK From LOCATION to LOCATIONFrom А km to В km INDICATOR UNITS / CODINGS

Status existing / planned / under construction

Number of tracks Number

Activity Freight / Passenger / Passenger and Freight

Traction Electrified / Diesel

Signalling system

Design speed (km/h)

Max operating speed (km/h)

Max axle load (kN)

Maximum train length (m)

Length of tunnels

Maximum inclination (‰)INDICATOR VALUE year UNITS / CODINGS

Freight traffic flow (net tons per year) Net tons per year

Freight traffic flow (trains per year) Trains per year

Passenger traffic flow (pax per year) Pax per year

Passenger traffic flow (trains per year) Trains per year

Average travel time passenger hhmmss

Average travel time freight hhmmss

VALUE


Figure 9 – EaP rail network in Armenia

Figure 10 – EaP rail network in Ukraine


Figure 11 – EaP rail network in Moldova

Figure 12 – EaP rail network in Georgia


Figure 13 – EaP rail network in Armenia

Figure 14 – EaP rail network in Azerbaijan


2.2 SOURCES

Data was mainly provided by National Administrations of Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and

Azerbaijan. Additional investigations were performed by IDEA II project in order to fill minor

data gaps and to complete as far as possible data collection for Armenia and Belarus.

2.2.1. ROAD

Data on roads in Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan has been mainly collected from

National Administrations, with some additional investigation of the project team to fill minor

data gaps. Here below the list of contact persons that supported data collection.

Table 7 - List of National Administrations contributing to road data collection

Country Authority Contact person

Armenia Ministry of Transport Violeta Aghajanyan

Azerbaijan Ministry of Transport Azer Aliev

Georgia Ministry of Transport Ketevan Takishvili

Moldova Ministry of Transport Nicolae Mindra

Ukraine Ministry of Transport Ukravtodor

Yuriy Tverdov and Konstantin Savchenko (Ministry), Natalia Dudnik (Ukravtdoor)

Data received from Armenia was not adequate to respond to the level of detail required by the

study and was integrated by the project team by exploiting additional sources (i.e. Open Street

Map, Google Map, Google Heart, TRACECA model).

2.2.2. RAILWAYS

Data on railways has been mainly collected from National Administrations, with some

additional investigation of the project team to fill some data gaps. Here below the list of

contact persons that supported data collection.

Table 8 - List of National Administrations contributing to rail data collection

Country Authority Contact person

Armenia Ministry of Transport Violeta Aghajanyan

Azerbaijan Ministry of Transport Azer Aliev

Georgia Ministry of Transport Ketevan Takishvili

Moldova Ministry of Transport Nicolae Mindra

Ukraine Ministry of Transport Yuriy Tverdov and Konstantin Savchenko, Michael Kuznetsov


Data received from Armenia was not adequate to respond to the level of detail required by the

study and was integrated by the project team by exploiting additional sources (i.e. Open Street

Map, Google Map, Google Heart, TRACECA model). The same sources were used to collect

infrastructure data in Belarus.

Additional sources were used by IDEA II team to improve the link lengths data in Ukraine, as

listed below.

http://www.biblos.in/forLife/railwaymap_ua.php

http://railway.lviv.ua/info/maps/

http://uyristkonsult.at.ua/foto2/pzz_mapa.png

http://www.biblos.in/forLife/railwaymap_ua.php

http://railway.lviv.ua/info/maps/

http://uyristkonsult.at.ua/foto2/pzz_mapa.png


3 DATA COLLECTED THROUGH DIRECT ROAD SURVEYS

The quality of road is an important indicator for the assessment of the characteristics of the infrastructure network in EaP countries. In order to improve data collection, dedicated surveys were planned to be performed on EaP main roads in Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia.

Road survey covered the road surface inspection and cross section characteristics (no of lanes / speed). The experts marked the sections where the characteristics change and document the cross section and the road surface with pictures. At the end of the surveys, this information was included into the GIS maps and info-graphics accordingly.

3.1 UKRAINE

3.1.1. SURVEY ON ROAD QUALITY

The survey of Ukrainian roads was documented by about 150 forms containing geographic coordinates (longitude and latitude), key information on the road infrastructure and a picture.

Some examples of survey forms are reported below.

NUMBER 780 LOCATION Kiev---->Uman

Route: M05/ Date: 26/03/2015

E 30.322848 N 50.261537

Results

Lanes 2 per direction

Speed (max) 90

Condition poor

14:27

NUMBER 807 LOCATION Mikolayev---->Kherson

Route: M 14 Date: 08/04/2015

N 46.692354 E 32.525473

Lanes 1 lane per direction

Speed (max) 90

Condition medium

08:04

Results


Results of the survey were transmitted to the IDEA II database expert for their inclusion into the GIS and info-graphics.

All the surveyed sections have been georeferenced and the GIS layer on road condition status has been updated on the basis of collected information.

From the survey it emerged that in some cases road conditions were somehow variable along the surveyed section. In order to represent these situations of mixed road conditions the original classification encompassing only the categories “high”, “medium” and “poor” was updated by including two additional classes: “poor to medium” and “medium to high”.

The map below illustrates the surveyed road, the documented sections (small squares), the updated thematic map of road conditions and a selection of photos.

NUMBER 801 LOCATION Zhitomir---->Kiev

Route: E 40/ M06Date: 26/03/2015

E 30.087725 N 50.435200

Lanes 2 lanes per direction

Speed (max) 90

Condition high

10:50

Results

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Uman

Reni

Kipti

Stryi

Sarny

Lubny

Dubno

Kovel

Rivne

L'viv

Odesa

Luts'k

Hlukhiv

Brovary

Olevs'k

Kharkiv

Poltava

Kherson

Korosten

Mariupol

Cherkasy

Uzhhorod

Donets'k

Kuchurhan

Boryspil'

Mukacheve

Chernihiv

Zhytomyra

Ternopil'

Vinnytsya

Mykolayiv

Krolevets'

Kremenchuk

Melitopol'

Chernivtsi

Tatarbunary

Debal'tseve

Lyubashevka Dolzhans'kyi

Bila Tserkva

Dnipropetrovs'k

Novohrad-Volyns'kyi2

M01/M02 Poor

E40/M06 High

M05 Poor

E471/M06 Poor

H10 Medium

E50 Poor

P10 Poor E87 Poor M14 Poor E40/M03 Medium

1

2

3

4

5

6

7 8 9 10

IDEA II ProjectJune 2015 Final ReportRoad condition in Ukraine

UnverifiedPoorPoor to Medium

MediumMedium to HighHigh

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3.2 BELARUS


The survey on road quality in Belarus was documented by about 80 forms containing longitude

and latitude of surveyed sections, key information on the road infrastructure and a picture.


Results of the survey were transmitted to the IDEA II database expert for their inclusion into the GIS and info-graphics. The map below illustrates the surveyed road, the documented sections (small squares), the updated thematic map of road conditions and a selection of photos.

NUMBER LOCATION Lida---->BieniakoniRoute: E85/M11 Date: 21/04/2015

E 25.244025 N 54.046629


Speed (max) 90

Condition medium

12:23

Results

NUMBER LOCATION Lida---->GrodnoRoute: M6 Date: 20/04/2015

E 24.171720 N 53.588409

Lanes 2 lanes per direction

Speed (max) 102

Condition high

18:37

NUMBER E30/M1 LOCATION Kobryn---->IvatsevichyRoute: E30/M1 Date: 20/04/2015

E 24.586481 N 52.299972


Speed (max) 115

Condition medium

12:49

Results

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MINSKLida

Orsha

PinskBrest

Žlobin

Kobryn

Hrodna

Polatsk

Borisov

Homyel'

Valozhyn

Tolochin

Babruysk

Mahilyow

Vitsyebsk

Baranavichy

Ivatsevichi

MikashevichyKalinkavichy

Mar'ina Horka

P20 Medium

M11 High

M6 Medium

M6 Medium

M1 High

M1 Medium

M10 Poor M5 High M8 Medium M1 High

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4

5

6

7 8 9 10

IDEA II ProjectJune 2015 Final ReportRoad condition in Belarus

UnverifiedPoorPoor to Medium

MediumMedium to HighHigh

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3.2.2. TRAFFIC COUNTS

Traffic counts of vehicles segmented in cars, HGV, bus and minibuses have been counted for 15

minutes on 6 sections (Figure 15) of EaP roads in Belarus.

Figure 15 – Traffic counts location in Belarus

Traffic counts have then been used to estimate average daily traffic and to update GIS and

infographics data. The tables below report the collected information for each section.

Table 9 – Traffic counts in Belarus



3.3 ARMENIA


The survey on road quality in Armenia was documented by about 60 forms containing

longitude and latitude of surveyed sections, key information on the road infrastructure and a

picture.


NUMBER 785 LOCATION Bavra---->AshtarakRoute: Date: 23/04/2015

E 43.858363 N 40.414071


Speed (max) 70

Condition poor

11:45

Results


Results of the survey were transmitted to the IDEA II database expert for their inclusion into the GIS and info-graphics. The map below illustrates the surveyed road, the documented sections (small squares), the updated thematic map of road conditions and a selection of photos.

NUMBER 785 LOCATION Bavra---->AshtarakRoute: Date: 23/04/2015

E 43.886645 N 40.404030


Speed (max) 70

Condition medium

11:48

Results

NUMBER 877 LOCATION Alaverdi---->PtghavanRoute: M-6 Date: 22/04/2015

E 44.743205 N 41.116306


Speed (max) 60

Condition poor

14:34

Results


3.3.2. TRAFFIC COUNTS

Traffic counts of vehicles segmented in cars, HGV, bus and minibuses have been counted for 15

minutes on 12 sections (Figure 16) of EaP roads in Armenia.

Figure 16 – Traffic counts location in Armenia

Traffic counts have then been used to estimate average daily traffic and to update GIS and

infographics data. The tables below report the collected information for each section.

Table 10 – Traffic counts in Armenia





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