Investments in transport sector

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Investments in transport sector
20142020 planning period Informal consultation
meeting Brussels, March 14, 2013
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Headline targets for 2020 - EU vs. LV

• Strategies and policy planning documents
• Europe 2020 - A strategy for smart, sustainable
  and inclusive growth
• White Paper ''A Roadmap to a Single Transport
  Area ? Towards a competitive and
  resource-efficient transport system
• Union guidelines for the development of the
  Trans-European Transport Network.
• National Reform Programme of Latvia for the
  implementation of the Europe 2020strategy
• Sustainable Development Strategy of Latvia until
  2030
• National Development Plan 2014-2020
• Transport development guidelines for 2013-2020
  (draft)

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• European Commission's position paper
  recommendations
• Financial priority should be given to the railway
  sector, in particular, to construction of a new
  fully interoperable higher speed railway
  connection to Central Europe, electrification and
  upgrading of the existing TEN-T core and
  comprehensive rail networks, including purchase
  of modern rolling stock. Development of
  multimodal and interoperable nodes. Integrated
  and low carbon public and urban transport
  systems. In relation to the road network, the
  priority should be completion of missing links in
  the TEN-T core road network and enhancing
  regional mobility through connecting secondary
  and tertiary nodes to TEN-T infrastructure.

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NDP2020 priority Growth of the National Economy

• Priority strategic objective Outstanding
  Business Environment
• In cooperation with the private sector, the
  state makes investments in the transport
  infrastructure, which is crucial for business
  activity nationally and internationally. This is
  done not merely as a way of rationally taking
  advantage of the countrys favourable geographic
  position, but also to boost Latvian businesses in
  supplying competitive products and services to
  foreign markets. Multi-modal transportation
  corridors play an increasingly important role in
  transit consisting of transit roads, the
  railway and ports. The electrification and
  modernisation of transportation corridors allows
  more and more goods to be shipped through such
  corridors and facilitates the development of new
  processing and service industries in Latvia.

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Strategy 2030

• The development of the infrastructure of
  motorways, railways (TEN-T), ports and airports
  of international significance has a substantial
  role in improvement of external accessibility of
  Latvia.
• It would ensure the possibility for Latvia to
  develop successfully as a significant transit
  country, the bridge between the EU states, Asia,
  Russia and the nearest neighboring countries, as
  well as to serve as a link between two economic
  regions of Europe Eastern Europe and Northern
  Europe.

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General plan of location of the principal
transport infrastructure elements
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TEN-T network revision

• Key elements for Latvia
• Inclusion of major axis in the comprehensive and
  core network, including Riga to Tallinn and Riga
  to Kaunas along the new Rail/Via Baltica
  alignment, as well as the link between Ventspils
  and the RU and BY border.

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TEN-T core and comprehensive network

• Roads network external and internal
  accessability
• Core network ports accessability and safety
• international airport corresponding capacity for
  passengers and cargo

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Targets

• Transport policy target is competitive,
  sustainable, co-modal transport system which
  ensures high quality mobility, effectively using
  resources, incl.EU funds.
• Vision of sustainable transport system
• high quality transport infrastructure (roads in
  good condition, electrified railway, comfortable
  TEN-T linkage with cities, airport Riga as
  central air traffic point in the region)
• high traffic safety level
• transport and logistics services, which ensure
  workplaces and provide significant contribution
  to increase of services export volume
• accessible public transport which ensures
  accessibility on the whole territory of Latvia
  (comfortable, single public transport system,
  achieving inter-coherence of bus and railway
  transportation)

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• Road network still have the main role in the
  provision of internal accessibility. Density of
  road network is sufficient it ensures
  availability from any populated area to the
  nearest administrative centre, links
  administrative centres with each other as well as
  with the capital of the country. However, its
  quality is not sufficient as approximately half
  of roads with asphalt pavement and gravel
  pavement are in bad or even critical condition.
• Therefore the priority in respect of the road
  network will be ensuring quality TEN-T core road
  network as well as enhancing regional mobility
  through the renovation and reconstruction of the
  existing infrastructure.
• TEN-T core road network should be to strengthen
  state main road surface in order to increase its
  servability (increase levelground and bearing
  capacity, decrease traffic accident risk), and
  ensure investment efficiency within the designed
  surface lifetime 20 years.

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• Reconstructed road sections allow reducing the
  duration of trip also in the public transport.
  Thereby the availability and accessibility of
  services (education, health, social, culture,
  entertainment etc.) and work places will be
  ensured for rural inhabitants.

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Road network
Information describing a road network
The road classification Km of roads in 2012 Km of roads in 2012 Km of roads in 2012 Km of roads in 2012
The road classification with the asphalt pavement with the crushed stone and gravel pavement without cover total
State roads 8 458 11 661 - 20 119 27,8
main roads (A) 1651 - - 1651 -
regional roads (P) 4190 1127 - 5317 -
local roads (V) 2617 10 533 - 13 150 -
Municipal roads and streets 5644 33 039 - 38 683 53,4
roads 1056 29 593 - 30 649 -
streets 4588 3446 - 8034 -
forest roads - 6216 3926 10 142 14,0
private roads 500 3000 - 3500 4,8
Total 14 602 53 916 3926 72 444 100
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• The poor and the very poor condition of existing
  asphalt pavement
• ( of road length)

main roads 47.8
regional roads 54.3
local roads 47.3

• The main indicator that changes with
  well-maintained road network in
• comparison of poor road network is the
  average cost per vehicle-kilometer

Vehicle-kilometer costs, EUR / km
Road surface condition asphalt pavement asphalt pavement
Road surface condition light vehicles freight transport
good 0.32 0.90
decent 0.37 1.013
bad 0.41 0.57 1.09 1.52
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Other related measures

• Related tasks for road construction activities
• (1) Continuous improvement of Road construction
  quality in general in Latvia adapted EU
  standards are applied (material testing methods)
• EU standartisation organisation improves these
  standards every 5-7 years and these amendments
  are assessed against LV situation
• LSR continues work in tasks for EU Standard
  adaptation LV Standard improvements, improvement
  of road construction technical specification
• (2) Establishment of foreseeable financing model
  for road infrastructure from state budget
  resources/proportion of revenues from excise duty
  tax payments and transport payments to ensure
  sufficient periodical maintenance and
  reconstruction

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Other related measures

• (3) NDP foresees PPP as one of the options for
  investment financing. In the road sector this
  possibility is also being evaluated and
  preparatory analysis is to be carried out to
  assess PPP viability for certain projects,
  proposed as part of road infrastructure financing
  model e.g. A7 and A5 Kekava bypass
• (4) Introduction of of Euroviniette payments as
  of October 2014, estimated amount of payments rom
  6-9 mil LVL/year in period from 2014-2020 with
  tendency to decrease

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The state main road quality
good decent bad
29.8 22.3 47.8
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Previously received support

• Investments in 2007-2013 programming period
• Measure "Improvements and Development of Large
  Scale
• Transport Infrastructure
• Improvement of the TEN-T Road Network - total CF
  financing is 216 million LVL (17,54 km to be
  constructed 364,7 km to be reconstructed)
• City Infrastructure Improvements for Linkage
  with the TEN-T - total CF financing is 20 million
  LVL
• Measure "Promotion of Accessibility and
  Transport System"
• Improvement of State Category 1 Motorway Network
  - total ERDF financing is 131 million LVL (427,0
  km to be reconstructed)
• Improvement of Transit Streets in Cities - total
  ERDF financing is 64 million LVL (106,0 km to be
  reconstructed)
• Traffic Safety Improvement in Populated Areas
  and Riga - total ERDF financing is 18 million LVL

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Activities for 2014.-2020.

• NDP2020 objective - ensure convenient and safe
  access to development centres, including
  achieving good driving quality on the roads
  connecting national and regional development
  centres and greater availability of public
  transportation by creating an efficient and
  balanced public transportation system
• Transport development guidelines for 2013-2020
  (draft) goals
• reconstruction of the national roads (to further
  aggravate the condition of roads and ensure road
  preservation and development of long-term
  planning stability)
• the public transport system adjustment (will
  provide better accessibility, more efficient use
  of financial resources, the priority use of
  railway transport) to ensure an opportunity for
  all residents to get to the county center, to
  visit the schools, get workplaces state and local
  government institutions in the its normal working
  hours by public transport.

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• Investment priority Supporting a multi-modal
  Single European Transport Area by investing in
  the Trans-European Transport Network
• Investment priority Enhancing regional mobility
  through connecting secondary and tertiary nodes
  to TEN-T infrastructure
• Expected results activities will provide people
  with more equality of living and working
  conditions, accessibility to services and
  mobility.
• Total length of reconstructed or upgraded main
  roads (TEN-T) 345 km
• Reconstructed or upgraded regional roads total
  length 574 km
• Reduction of the length of main state and
  regional paved road segments in a poor or very
  poor condition by 50
• Motor transport operating cost savings
• the main roads 31.58 mill EUR / year
• regional roads 8.6 mill EUR / year
• Synergy activities will provide preconditions
  for the development of business activity and new
  job creation in the manufacturing and services
  sector in the regions.

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• Transport development guidelines for 2014-2020
  (draft) in addition to the road network
  activities offered from Cohesion Policy funds in
  next MFF foresees the state and local government
  budget funding investments in the national road
  network maintenance and restoration. Moreover the
  investments are planned for organisation of
  public transportation services in a single bus
  and rail network, providing rural residents with
  the possibility of reaching regional development
  centres and, from there, the national development
  centres and the capital (connections from
  parishes to the 219 at least twice daily).

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State main and regional road recovery and
reconstruction projects 2007.-2020.
State main road projects for 2014.-2020.
Previously received support for state main roads in 2007.-2013.
Regional state roads asphalt pavement reconstruction projects for 2014.-2020.
State regional roads gravel surface asphalting projects for 2014.-2020.
Previously received support for State regional roads in 2007.-2013.
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Ports

• Three big ports (Ventspils, Riga and Liepaja) are
  operating in Latvia
• their proportion in total cargo turnover is 75.2
  mill.t (98.2 )
• seven small ports (Engure, Lielupe, Mersrags,
  Pavilosta, Roja, Salacgriva, Skulte) total cargo
  turnover is 1,4 mill.t. (1.8)
• Investment in port development is a logical
  continuation of investments made in road and rail
  infrastructure, as it will provide multi-modal
  infrastructure, which will facilitate the
  development of related industries
• Freight transit has a vitally important role in
  the Latvian economy (Total revenue for transit
  cargoes (4.4 of GDP in 2011). It makes up about
  1/3 of the total exports of all types of
  services. Transit promotes the development of
  other sectors of the Latvian economy, supports
  foreign trade, export

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Transit importance in Latvian economy

• Transport and storage sector in GDP 13
• Total revenue for transit cargo (4.4 of GDP in
  2011)
• Transport and storage sector employs 68.8 thsd
• Revenues from each ton of transit cargo 15 EUR
• Investments planned for ports is the continuation
  of 2007-2013 programming period activities
  namely reconstruction of access channel for ships
  entering the port of Riga, phase II with TEN-T
  co-financing in 2011 was completed project
  elaboration of study and detail design for the
  project "Reconstruction of Access channel for
  ships entrance into Riga port".

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Previously received support

• Investments in 2007-2013 programming period
• Measure "Improvements and Development of Large
  Scale Transport Infrastructure
• Development of Infrastructure of Large Ports
  within the Framework of the "Motorways of the
  Sea - total CF financing is 116 million LVL
• Measure "Promotion of Accessibility and Transport
  System"
• Improvement of Infrastructure in Small Ports -
  total ERDF financing is 3,4 million LVL

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Activities for 2014.-2020.

• Investment priority developing
  environment-friendly and low-carbon transport
  systems and promoting sustainable urban mobility,
  including river and sea transport, ports and
  multimodal links
• Compliance with the White Paper target - 30 of
  road freight over 300 km should shift to other
  modes such as rail or waterborne transport by
  2030, and more than 50 by 2050, facilitated by
  efficient and green freight corridors. To meet
  this goal will also require appropriate
  infrastructure to be developed.
• Expected activities only basic public
  infrastructure
• Riga port - reconstruction of east and west
  breakwaters, development of new territory beyond
  the west breakwater. Reconstruction of access
  channel for ships entering the port that will
  provide handling for high-tonnage vessels.
• Port of Liepaja - harbour breakwaters
  reconstruction to prevent sand - silt entering
  the port area in order to improve maritime safety
  and railway infrastructure development.

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• Port of Ventspils - development of the access
  roads to the Ventspils Freeport existing
  terminals and industrial zones, piers and
  breakwaters reconstruction in order to improve
  maritime safety
• Ensuring the maritime safety in winter navigation
  period in small ports - Mersrags, Roja,
  Salacgriva and Skulte.
• Measurable outcomes for the activities - cargo
  turnover in the major ports 116 million tonnes
  in 2020. (base value 67.4 million tonnes in
  2011)
• Synergy - Activities promote to improve the
  competitiveness of Latvian products and services
  and to increase their export volumes.

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International airport Riga

• Air transport as the fastest and most efficient
  type of transport has significant role in the
  provision of external accessibility
• Air transport facilitates development of other
  industries, especially tourism, thus promoting
  growth of economy and increase of GDP and
  employment

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International airport Riga
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Development of airport activities
Increasing number of passengers due to
increasing proportion of transit and transfer
passengers
Number of served passengers
airBaltic served passengers
local passengers
Total number of flights
transit and transfer passengers
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• The international airport Riga is dominating in
  the Baltic States (number of passengers served at
  Tallinn and Vilnius in 2012 is around 2 mill.
  each, that is hardly a half of the amount served
  in Riga
• The international airport Riga is turning out
  not only as an important destination of direct
  routes, but also as a significant transit airport
  for further flights to Central Asia and CIS
  countries
• Air cargo at Riga airport have steadily increased
  despite the economic recession, growing from
  12,294 tons in 2010 to 32,953 tons in 2012, which
  is also the sound indicator of the significant
  role of Riga airport and its impact to the growth
  of economic.

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Activities for 2014.-2020.

• Investment priority Supporting a multi-modal
  single European transport area by investing in
  the Trans-European transport network
• Compliance with the White Paper target - A fully
  functional and EU-wide multimodal TEN-T core
  network by 2030, with a high quality and
  capacity network by 2050 and a corresponding set
  of information services.
• Targets
• Provide safe, high quality and accessible air
  transport services
• Develop airport infrastructure
• Promote passenger traffic growth, expanding
  flight network and maintaining attractive pricing
  policy
• problem to be solved
• The international airport Riga existing 23
  departure passages to aircraft are unable to
  operate the number of passengers over 5 million,
  number of passengers served in 2012 - 4.7 mill.,
  as well as necessary separate Schengen and
  non-Schengen passenger flows.

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• Expected activities
• The ground infrastructure reconstruction and
  technical modernization
• Security measures
• Expected results
• number of passengers served 7,6 mil. (growth -
  61)
• number of passengers served in increased traffic
  hours 3,7 thousd. (growth - 60)
• number of aircrafts served in increased traffic
  hours 34 (growth - 61)
• N.B.! These results will be achieved in close
  synergy with investments planned from own
  resources, intended for terminal capacity
  development

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Previously received support

• Investments in 2007-2013 programming period
• Measure "Improvements and Development of Large
  Scale Transport Infrastructure
• Development of Airport Infrastructure - total CF
  financing is 45 million LVL

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Develop Riga as the region's metropolis functions
necessary infrastructure

• NDP2020 objective - strengthening of the
  international competitiveness of Latvias regions
  by increasing the role of Riga as a North
  European metropolis.
• The objective Ensure Riga city urban mobility
  and safety as well as developing
  environmentally-friendly public transport
• Expected results
• port of Riga and Riga city integration in TEN-T
  network (port roads)
• constructed/reconstructed street length 8.6 km
• reconstructed / constructed main street junctions
  3
• multi-modal transport junction construction -1
• Riga City public transport improvement
• tram route adjustment to low-floor tram 1
• construction of a new tram lines (tram route
  extension) 1
• new low-floor trams purchase

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Context of Riga Mobility plan

• Riga and Pieriga Mobility Plan (RPMP) Objectives
• develop an efficient, attractive and competitive
  public transport system, with priority for
  electric and railway modes.
• the motivation for this objective is to
  develop a sustainable system providing good
  accessibility, limiting traffic hindrance,
  improving traffic safety and reducing
  environmental burden of traffic. With the
  priority for electric modes local environmental
  impact from the transport can be limited
• create a coherent network with clear road and
  street classifications and prioritisation of
  modes, by eliminating bottlenecks in the road and
  street network.
• currently, the network has weak and missing
  links leading to fragmentation and bottlenecks in
  the traffic flow. With removal of missing links
  and bottlenecks and with road and street
  classification the network can be made coherent.

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• increase the level of road safety, without
  hampering accessibility.
• provide multi modal accessibility to different
  places.
• multi modal accessibility is necessary to
  provide optimal choices for trip making and to
  make the transport system less vulnerable for
  incidents. Multi modal accessibility can be
  achieved by providing facilities for all modes in
  an integrated transport system with sufficient
  transfer possibilities
• ensure good and reliable connections between the
  Riga Freeport, Riga and other national and
  international (TEN-T) transport infrastructure
  networks.
• with good connections further economic
  development is enabled. Furthermore, with
  sustainable connections the city center can be
  relieved from the freight transport burden,
  dangerous goods in particular

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• ensure good and reliable connections between the
  Riga international airport, Riga and other main
  regional centers in a sustainable way.
• With a good and reliable transport system
  further economic development is enabled.
  Currently, a proper public transport link between
  Riga city center, other regional centers and the
  Riga international airport is missing.
• Synergy - promoting employment and support labor
  mobility and support the transition to a low
  carbon economy in all sectors.
• Investments in 2007-2013 programming period
• Measure "Promotion of Accessibility and
  Transport System "Traffic Safety Improvement in
  Riga - total ERDF financing is 8,2 million LVL

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TEN-T core and comprehensive network

• Railways

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Railway network

• Total length of Latvian railway network is
  1 896.9km
• 319.5 km are dual railway
• 257.4 km electrified
• dominant turnover east-west railway corridor
• strengths - common railway system with
  neighboring countries (1520 mm) - CIS as well as
  Asia
• north-south railway corridor
• weaknesses - difference between rails width on
  the LT/PL borders (1520mm/1435mm) which restrict
  traffic geographical coverage
• opportunities - Rail Baltica project
• inland freight transport
• freight carriage not competitive with the road
  transport, role of road transportation in inland
  transport is dominant. Road transportation in
  inland transport in Latvia constitutes 96,79

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Euro-Asia logistics traffic
1520mm
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Strategic objectives and opportunities for
railway

• Establishment of progressive, safe and effective
  railway infrastructure corresponding to the needs
  of the economy
• Ensure full integration of Latvian railway
  infrastructure in EU and Eurasia transport system
  and development of coordinated cross-border
  corridors
• Ensure sufficient throughput capacity for
  West-East corridor
• Ensure infrasrtucture service level
  corresponding to the railway passenger transport
  needs, including the priorities indentified in
  Riga Mobility Plan

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Transit cargo in the total cargo turnover
transported by rail
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Freight transport by railway

• Cargo turnover at the 2012
• 60.6 milj.t

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Latvian railway network electrification

• In Latvia, during the last years in freight and
  passenger transportation as well as public use
  railway infrastructure the following problems
  have intensified
• Depreciation of rolling stock diesel-electric
  locomotives (freight carriages) and electric
  trains (passenger carriages)
• Depreciation of power supply equipment (that is a
  part of public use railway infrastructure) in
  electrified sections
• Increase in transportation costs due to rapid
  increase in diesel price.
• Latvian railway network electrification can
  solve the above mentioned problems. The existing
  DC network for passenger traffic will be
  renovated and converted to AC system and the high
  priority line sections for freight traffic will
  be electrified using the AC system. The electric
  passenger rolling stock will be replaced by
  modern AC units and the existing diesel
  locomotives for freight traffic will be partly
  replaced by AC electric locomotives.

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Latvian railway network electrification current
situation
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Latvian railway network electrification expected
result
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Previously received support

• Investments in 2007-2013 programming period
• Measure "Improvements and Development of Large
  Scale Transport Infrastructure
• Reconstruction and Development of the TEN-T
  Railway Segments (Development of the East-west
  Rail Corridor Infrastructure and Rail Baltica) -
  total CF financing is 91,7 million LVL (52 km to
  be constructed)
• Development of Sustainable Public Transport
  System - total CF financing is 100 million LVL

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Activities for 2014.-2020.

• Compliance with the EU2020 targets - support the
  shift towards a low carbon economy, increase the
  use of renewable energy sources, modernise our
  transport sector and promote energy efficiency.
• Compliance with the White Paper targets -
  optimising the performance of multimodal logistic
  chains, including by making greater use of more
  energy-efficient modes.
• NDP2020 objective - The electrification and
  modernisation of transportation corridors allows
  more and more goods to be shipped through such
  corridors and facilitates the development of new
  processing and service industries in Latvia.
  Multi-modal transportation corridors play an
  increasingly important role in transit
  consisting of transit roads, the railway and
  ports.
• The railway network electrification has been
  established as one of the national priorities for
  the next programming period. TEN-T multi-annual
  program have approved preliminary design of
  Latvian railway network electrification project
  to ensure project preparedness for the new
  programming period.

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• Investment priority Developing and
  rehabilitating comprehensive, high quality and
  interoperable railway systems
• Expected activities
• Latvian railway network electrification - the
  approximate project cost - 386 mill/LVL the
  indicative funding from CEF 70 mill/LVL
• Implementation of the single train planning and
  management system - Ensure all of the operational
  public railway infrastructure monitoring and
  operational train control decision-making, to
  develop and maintain electronic goods and
  passenger train timetables. As well as providing
  a unified, automated train dispatcher work
  process.
• Reconstruction of the major railway junctions
  (Riga and Daugavpils railway junction
  modernization) - morally and physically obsolete
  equipment replacement and the modernization of
  basic infrastructure, which will prevent the East
  - West corridor bottleneck Daugavpils railway
  junction, making the train - the transfer station
  to be carried out at the customs procedures.

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• Expected results
• total length of reconstructed or upgraded railway
  line 1023km
• reconstructed the major railway junctions (Riga
  and Daugavpils)
• implemented single train planning and management
  system
• GHG reduction 107 747 tones of CO2
• increased Latvian transit traffic competitiveness
• reduce energy costs for cargo units
• reduce the cost of passenger transportation
• international traffic towable units will be able
  to use the same types of communication terminals

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Rail Baltica II new European standard gauge line

• Compliance with the White Paper targets
• By 2050, complete a European high-speed rail
  network. Triple the length of the existing
  high-speed rail network by 2030 and maintain a
  dense railway network in all Member States. By
  2050 the majority of medium-distance passenger
  transport should go by rail.
• By 2050, connect all core network airports to the
  rail network, preferably high-speed ensure that
  all core seaports are sufficiently connected to
  the rail freight and, where possible, inland
  waterway system

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Rail Baltica II new European standard gauge line

• Rail Baltica II project aims at ensuring a safe,
  fast and high quality connection between the
  Baltic States and the major economic,
  administrative and cultural centres of Western
  Europe.
• Interoperability with Polish and German 1435mm
  gauge network is an important aspect of the
  project as a whole because international traffic
  in the North-South direction with the present
  1520mm gauge rail network in the Baltic States is
  very inefficient and not effective.
• The key features of the project
• Overall length of new track 728km (Latvian
  section 235km)
• The route is a mixed traffic conventional route,
  with a maximum design speed of 240 kph
• Journey times between Tallinn and the
  Lithuanian/Polish Border
• Passenger 4.13 hrs (4hrs8mins)
• Freight 10.38 hrs (10hrs23mins)
• Average speeds
• Passenger 170 kph
• Freight 68 kph

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Rail Baltica II new European standard gauge line
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Rail Baltica II new European standard gauge line

• In order to ensure projects preparedness
  Ministry of Transport in January 2013 launched
  tender on detailed technical study and
  environmental impact assessment. The aim of the
  detailed technical study is by 2015 to determine
  precise location of planned railway line on the
  territory of Latvia, including connections with
  the port and the airport and to carry out
  necessary studies and preliminary works for
  commencement of preparation of technical design
  of the railway line, land expropriation and
  construction.

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Connecting Europe Facility
Rail Baltica II new European standard gauge line

• new integrated instrument for investing in EU
  infrastructure priorities
• CEF proposal defines potential strategic projects
  on the TEN-T core network
• CEF proposal identified core corridor Baltic
  Adriatic defines support for high speed railway
  line Rail Baltica with rail airports/ports
  interconnections, rail-road terminals and
  Motorways of the sea
• East-West rail network (Latvian railway network
  electrification) corridor and Via Baltica road
  are also identified as CEF priorities.

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Rail Baltica II new European standard gauge line

• If the funding is granted within the Connecting
  Europe Facility
• only then during the period 2015 - 2022
  implementation of
• activities related to the construction of the
  main line will take
• place, namely
• connection to the Riga International Airport and
  port
• (including terminal construction for railway
  input)
• Daugava River crossing (railway bridge) in Riga
  City territory
• multi-modal bridge construction (Saulkalnes
  crossing - section of
• E67/A5 from the A4/A6 junction to Kekava
  Bypass)
• starting the base line construction (including
  land purchase)
• The indicative necessary funding from CEF 840
  mill/EUR
• Expected result in 2030 - number of
  international railway passengers,
• thousand per year 2.3 mill.

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• Thank you for attention!

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