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Atlantic CorridorThe corridor work plan

Next steps for the Corridor

Prof. Carlo Secchi – EU Coordinatorr

TEN-T Days, Riga, June 22nd 2015

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What happened so far:

● 4 Corridor Forum meetings in Brussels in 2014 with gradual involvement of Member States, infrastructure managers of all transport modes and Regions

● 2 Working Group sessions (Ports / Regions)

● Final corridor study with detailed analysis of corridor presented in December 2014

● Corridor work plan, based on corridor study & Fora by European Coordinator and sent to MSs on December 2014 – improvements by MS and agreement

● May 2015: Hearing in the European Parliament

● Today: open presentation on Work plan & State of play

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● Strong maritime component

● 13 core ports (Sea &/ IWW)

● RFC 4 as land backbone

● 4 Member States

● 4 cross-border sections

● Linking 3 capitals, crossing two large urban nodes

● Two gauges: UIC and Iberian

Work plan in a nutshell: Key features AC

Madrid

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Connecting the Atlantic to the EU centre

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● Electrification: almost 90% electrified; however 4 different power systems in use

● Two different gauges (UIC – Iberian) – need for a share deployment plan in the Iberian Peninsula

● ERTMS: almost absent (7%) but peaking up by 2020

● LNG deployment on the maritime needed to benefit from the position and connections with SECA (North America & North Sea-Baltic)

● Starting interoperable road tolling system, to be pursued

TEN-T compliance

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Corridor objectives and priorities

• Enhancing multimodality and rebalancing the modal split

• Deploying interoperability linking national networks, rail interoperability (gauge, ERTMS…), e-tolling systems

• Exploiting the external dimension, boosting the maritime–innovation, simplification and cleaner fuels

● Improve ports connectivity (notably IWW/Rail - electrified)

● Develop new models for logistic platforms

● Cooperation with ERTMS Coord. to accelerate its take-up

● Joint deployment plan for UIC gauge in Iberian peninsula

● Complete the missing link (Evora-Badajoz); urban crossing and cross-border routes/services

● Speed-up LNG & single window deployment in Corridor ports

● Enhance Corridor visibility vs. WW flows and logistic areas

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Atlantic Corridor state of Play:

Progress on Cross-borders and Main ports investmentsDark Blue=Works, Pale B.=Studies submitted to CEF call / EIB

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Today's Milestone

• Constitution of the Spanish-Portuguese working group of the Atlantic Core Network Corridor

• Announced jointly in the Iberian Summit and in TEN-T Days.

• Focus: development of the infrastructure of the Atlantic Multimodal Corridor consistently with EU, national and the Corridor planning.

• Side-measures to enhance maritime potential

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Opinions? Questions? Contributions?….

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What's next? ● Selection of consultant for further development of the corridor

study and support to the European Coordinator - ongoing

● Aim: to deepen and consolidate the analysis of 2014

● Update and deepen the projects list with the aim to better define and highlight the key investments (detailed description of projects' timing and costs,; feasibility and maturity; added value for the corridor; …)

● Enhance coherence between CNCs, horizontal priorities (ERTMS and MoS); structure dialogue with the RFC

● Mainstream innovation, ITS, sustainability, interoperability

● Deal with environmental impact & climate change

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Planning 2015 - 2016● 5th Corridor Forum: 1 October 2015 BXL – inception

report on methodology to progress on the corridor study

● 6th Corridor Forum: 8 December 2015 BXL – first progress report of the consultant

● Working group on Cross-borders along the Corridor: 27-29 October (tbc)

● Two further Corridor Forum meetings in 2016

● June 2016: Update of corridor work plan

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Thank you for your attention