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TEN-T / Transport infrastructure
30 priority axes
The revised Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) were adopted in April 2004 (Decision No 884/2004/EC). These were aimed at giving a new boost to TEN-T projects, particularly in light of the forthcoming ‘Enlargement’ of the Community, and identified 30 ‘priority projects’ to be implemented by 2020.
In view of the growth in traffic between Member States, expected to double by 2020, the investment required to complete and modernise a true trans-European network in the enlarged EU amounts to some €600 billion. Given the scale of this investment, it is essential for the EU to prioritise projects better, concentrating on major projects to complete those implemented at national level, which naturally require coordination at European level. This series of 30 transnational projects have been selected on the basis of proposals from the Member States, according to their European added value and their contribution to the sustainable development of transport and the integration of the new Member States.
Maps
- 00 Priority axes and projects
- 01 Railway axis Berlin-Verona/Milano-Bologna-Napoli-Messina-Palermo
- 02 High-speed railway axis Paris-Bruxelles/Brussel-Köln-Amsterdam-London
- 03 High-speed railway axis of south-west Europe
- 04 High-speed railway axis east
- 05 Betuwe line
- 06 Railway axis Lyon-Trieste-Diva?a/Koper-Diva?a-Ljubljana-Budapest-Ukrainian border
- 07 Motorway axis Igoumenitsa/Patra-Athina-Sofia-Budapest
- 08 Multimodal axis Portugal/Spain-rest of Europe
- 09 Railway axis Cork-Dublin-Belfast-Stranraer (completed 2001)
- 10 Malpensa
(completed 2001)
- 11 Öresund fixed link (completed 2000)
- 12 Nordic triangle railway/road axis
- 13 UK/Ireland/Benelux road axis
- 14 West coast main line
- 15 Galileo
- 16 Freight railway axis Sines-Madrid-Paris
- 17 Railway axis Paris-Strasbourg-Stuttgart-Wien-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
- Motorway of the sea of western Europe (leading from Portugal and Spain via the Atlantic Arc to the North Sea and the Irish Sea);
- Motorway of the sea of south-east Europe (connecting the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean to include Cyprus);
- Motorway of the sea of south-west Europe (western Mediterranean), connecting Spain, France, Italy and including Malta, and linking with the motorway of the sea of south?east Europe.
- 22 Railway axis Athina-Sofia-Budapest-Wien-Praha-Nürnberg/Dresden
- 23 Railway axis Gdansk-Warszawa-Brno/Bratislava-Wien
- 24 Railway axis Lyon/Genova-Basel-Duisburg-Rotterdam/Antwerpen
- 25 Motorway axis Gdansk-Brno/Bratislava-Wien
- 26 Railway/road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/continental Europe
- 27 Rail Baltica" axis Warsaw-Kaunas-Riga-Tallinn-Helsinki
- 28 Eurocaprail" on the Brussels-Luxembourg-Strasbourg railway axis
- 29 Railway axis of the Ionian/Adriatic intermodal corridor
- 30 Inland waterway Seine-Scheldt
