Railway sector in Latvia

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Railway sector in Latvia

• Presented by Ministry of Transport of Latvia

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Latvia on the border of two systems
OSJD, SZhT 1520 mm interoperability
EU, COTIF 1435 mm (mainly)
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Different systems
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Improving interoperability

• Legal interoperability
• Harmonisation of COTIF, SMGS/SMPS legal systems
  as well as EU legislation
• Technical interoperability
• The Agency shall perform an analysis of the
  relationship between the 1435 mm and the
  1520/1524 mm railway systems as far as technical
  and operational aspects are concerned, together
  with a strategic evaluation on the possibility of
  future convergence between the two systems
  (keeping apart the gauge differences). In this
  context the pertinence as well as technical and
  economical feasibility of a separate specific
  valid for the 1520/1524 mm railway system shall
  be evaluated. (EC mandate to ERA concerning
  developing the 3rd group of TSIs)

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Law on Railways(was adopted by Saeima (The
Parliament of The Republic of Latvia) on 1 April
1998 and was amended on 4 March 2004)

• Regulates the principles of railway operation
• Regulates the principles of traffic safety
• Regulates the railway management procedures
• Public-use railway infrastructure it is
  available for railway undertakings
• Private-use railway infrastructure tracks are
  used by owner or other persons.

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Supervision and cooperation of action for the
implementation of railway transport policy
State Joint Stock Company Latvijas dzelzcel
(railway infrastructure belongs to the state)
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Railway Department

• Implements transport policy at the sector of
  railway
• Prepares regulations.

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State Railway Administration

• Issues freight carriers licences
• Supervises freight railway carriage state orders
• Registers infrastructure
• Registers rolling stock
• Deals with disputes between railway undertakings
  and infrastructure managers
• Promotes competition in railway carriage
• Develops railway environmental protection policy
• Assesses risk of rail infrastructure
• Allocates railway infrastructure capacity.

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State Railway Technical Inspectorate

• Supervises the observance of national
  requirements of railway safety
• Investigates accidents and occurrences of
  violations and supervises organisations after
  accidents
• Controls and puts into service new or
  reconstructed railway infrastructure facilities
• Issues safety certificates
• Issues safety permissions (which are being
  developed now)
• Issues driver licences (which are being developed
  now)
• Administers safety advisers certification.

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Public Utilities Commission

• Issues the passenger operator licences
• Determines the methodology of calculation of the
  track access charges (Charging in case when
  infrastructure manager is also RU)

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State Joint Stock company Latvijas dzelzcel

• Authorised agent by state (infrastructure belongs
  to state)
• Maintains state public-use infrastructure
• Railway undertaking.

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Ministry of Transport
Railway Technical Inspectorate
Railway Administration
Infrastructure managers
Operators (railway undertakings)
Private-use infrastructure
Public-use infrastructure
State Joint Stock Company Latvijas dzelzcel
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The Railway Transport Market
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Information about amounts of carried freight at
Latvian Railway in September 2005 and during the
9 months
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Information about amounts of carried freight at
Latvian Railway in September 2005 and during the
9 months
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Restructuring of JSC Latvijas dzelzcel (LDZ)
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Projects financed by Cohesion Fund
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ISPA PROJECTS IN RAILWAY SECTOR

• Modernization of the Latvian East-West Railway
  corridor Replacement of track turnouts.
• Latvia. East-West Rail Corridor. Rezekne II
  Reception Yard.
• Modernization of the Latvian East-West Railway
  corridor modernization of infrastructure for a
  safety control system and modernization of
  signaling system
• Modernization of the Latvian East-West Railway
  Corridor Modernization of signaling system

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Main tasks for the railways sector

• To reach 100 million tons of freight carried in
  2013.
• To finish the administrative restructuring of the
  SJSC Latvijas Dzelzcel by the end of 2006.
• To renew 260 km of rail track and to replace 500
  points of the public use railway infrastructure
  in 20092013.
• Until 2013 to increase the capacity of the
  railway sections RigaKrustpils (54 km) and
  DaugavpilsIndra (70 km) by the constructing of
  the second track.
• To renew and to increase the capacity of
  Daugavpils (by the end of 2009) and Riga (end of
  2013) railway junction.
• By the end of 2013 to develop reliable, safe,
  effective train control and command, GSM-R
  communications and hot-box detection system on
  the EastWest rail corridor.

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Main tasks for the railways sector

• To reconstruct the platforms of Riga Central
  station in accordance with up-to-date
  requirements and to improve accessibility for PRM
  until 2009.
• Until 2008 to carry out the pre-feasibility study
  for Rail Baltica project.
• Till 2009 to develop and introduce the plan of
  refurbishing overhead current supply and
  converting it form 3 kV DC to 25 kV AC system in
  the Riga suburban region and to make the studies
  for the further electrification of the main
  railway corridors.
• To replace the EMU fleet for use in Riga suburban
  region by the up-to-date low-floor AC EMUs, well
  suitable for urban and suburban traffic.
• To start the electrification of the EastWest
  rail corridor sections in 2011.
• To introduce EC requirements for railway market
  liberalisation, including harmonised registers,
  licences, safety certificates, train crews
  certificates etc.
• To regulate rail sector without conflicts among
  infrastructure managers and railway undertakings
  and to reach the share of private freight rail
  operators to 25 in 2008.

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Rail Baltica

• The goal
• Direct link of the Baltic states to the European
  rail network

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Main problems of the current traffic to the Europe

• Different track gauge
• Unsatisfactory timetable
• Frequent border checks

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Main problems of the current traffic to the Europe

• Different track gauges possible solutions
• Changing trains on border
• Inconveniences for passengers
• Risks while reloading the dangerous goods
• Replacement of bogies or wheelsets
• Continuous and complicated process
• Not suitable for high-speed rolling stock
• Rolling stock with gauge-changing wheelsets
• Expensive, results in small fleet of such rolling
  stock
• Problems in high-speed traffic

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Main problems of the current traffic to the Europe

• Unsatisfactory timetable for passengers
• Small number of passengers, resulted from
• Impossibility to ensure satisfactory
  arrival/departure time for all Baltic countries
• Comparatively slow traffic, as a result only near
  destination are acceptable
• Due to small number of passengers it is
  impossible to make separate train for each
  country with satisfactory arrival/departure time

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Main problems of the current traffic to the Europe

• Frequent border checks
• Disturbing passengers
• Delays of freight trains due to customs
  procedures (no more since 1st May, 2004)

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Rail Baltica as a link with Europe

• High-speed line with mixed passenger and freight
  traffic
• Standard track gauge
• Shortest route Berlin-Warsaw-Kaunas-Riga-Tallinn
  -(Helsinki)

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Rail Baltica as a link with Europe

• High-speed (max v250 km/h) with mixed
  freight/passenger traffic
• Opportunity to attract more passengers
• allows make separate trains from each country
• Ensures more distant destinations in Europe
• Light freight container and contrailer trains
  (v160 km/h) will allow better utilize the
  infrastructure of Rail Baltica and relieve the
  traffic on parallel roads

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Rail Baltica as a link with Europe

• Standard (1435 mm) track gauge
• Direct link to main European rail network
• Passengers living out of vicinity of Rail Baltica
  must change trains anyway
• Existing and Rail Baltica freight flows
  practically will have no correspondence
• Light freight trains of Rail Baltica will be
  multimodal

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Route
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Operation

• Because this line will have the different
  standards from that are used in Baltic railways
  as well as the transport market will be
  different, it would be reasonable to have
  infrastructure manager and operator company as a
  separate international companies, also with
  participation of the private capital
• Possibility for European railway undertakings to
  use the infrastructure of Rail Baltica, thus
  providing the transportation to the different
  destinations in Europe

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St. Petersburg dimension
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Already done

• 15.09.2003. on international coordinating meeting
  in Vilnius it was decided
• standard gauge (1435 mm) track
• route (Tallinn Riga Kaunas Warsaw)
• basic deadline to finalize investigations until
  2007 and to start design and construction works
• Since 2002 Latvia acts as a co-ordinator of all
  involved countries

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In process

• The letter for EC has been received with a
  support to the Rail Baltica project which was
  identified as a priority project. The feasibility
  studies should be carried out as EC initiative
  with Cohesion fund support. At the same time the
  regional development items should be studied in
  frameworks of Interreg IIIB programme.
• Mr. Telicka has been nominated as the EC
  co-ordinator for Rail Baltica project, he already
  visited the countries involved in project.
• The feasibility study are to be launched.

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Thank you for attention!