Main transport infrastructure needs identified
TEM and TER Master Plan issued
The TEM and TER Master Plan, reflecting the priority transport infrastructure
needs of 21 Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European countries,1 has
been published.
The TEM and TER Master Plan has identified the backbone road and rail
networks in those countries and elaborated a realistic investment strategy
to gradually develop these networks.
Two experts groups, one for road and one for rail, with the support of
external consultants, have consolidated and processed transport plans and
priority needs of the respective countries. As many as 491 projects with
an aggregate estimated cost of EUR 102 billion, have been evaluated
and prioritized in the framework of the Master Plan. What is the next step?
What happens now with all of these projects. Is the TEM AND TER still involved
in helping to , for example, find funding??
The Master Plan, which was funded by the TEM and TER Projects’ own
budgets and by a contribution from the International Road Transport Union,
provides a useful tool and framework for intergovernmental cooperation
towards the coordinated development of coherent international transport
infrastructure networks in Central, Eastern and South Eastern European
countries, and their integration into the pan-European networks. The EU
High Level Group chaired by Ms. de Palacio explicitly acknowledged the
TEM and TER Master Plan.
N ext steps will be the M implementation of the Master Plan and its monitoring
, including would be among the most important tasks of the TEM and TER
Projects in future. This includes , the c o llection of missing data; the
r egular update of the identified b ackbone n etwork s; elaboration of
annual progress report s on the implementation of the identified priority
projects; the r eview of the strategy by 2008 ; and the presentation of
projects to the international financial institutions with a view to seeking
possible funding for their implementation.
The Trans-European Motorways (TEM) and Trans-European Rail (TER) Projects
are subregional intergovernmental cooperation frameworks established in
1977 and 1990, respectively, under UN Trust Funds by the Governments of
Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European countries without precedent
in the history of European transport. They are working for the development
of modern systems of motorways, railways and combined transport infrastructure
in the region and are committed to assisting European integration and economic
development through the facilitation of road and railway traffic in Europe.
The TEM and TER Projects have been instrumental in the development of
international road and rail links in the participating countries. They
have also contributed to the interoperability of the European transport
systems, elaborated studies, created continuously updated databases, published
a large number of technical documents, guidelines, recommendations and
are working for the harmonization of management, maintenance and operational
procedures of motorways and railways in the region and their integration
in the Pan-European context.
For the Final Report of the Master Plan please visit the
following website:
For additional information please contact:
Mr. Jose Capel Ferrer, Director, or
Mr. Michalis P. Adamantiadis, Regional Adviser
UNECE Transport Division
Palais des Nations
CH – 1211 Geneva 10
Phone: +41(0)22 917 24 01, 917 11 28
Fax: +41(0)22 917 00 39
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Website: http://www.unece.org/trans
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1Participating countries are:
Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Republic of Moldova,
Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia,
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Ref. ECE/TRANS/06/N03