1. Boris ŽIVEC RailNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport 1 Railway Days The wider Black Sea area Railway Investment Summit 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

2. 2 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Who are the adresee and who is benefiting? Decission makers – Governments, Parliaments Decission makers – Governments, Parliaments Infrastructure managers Infrastructure managers Undertakings Undertakings Customers Customers

3. 3 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Myths and realities in transport sector Intensive international coordination before the consensus on Pan European Corridors Intensive international coordination before the consensus on Pan European Corridors Transport infrastrucuture needs assessment – TINA for the future TEN – T network, Transport infrastrucuture needs assessment – TINA for the future TEN – T network, Similar assesment for the rest of Pan European Corridors, Similar assesment for the rest of Pan European Corridors, Followed by several concept and initiatives from EU prospective to makro and mikro regions all aimed to sustainable and more railway focused transport system development Followed by several concept and initiatives from EU prospective to makro and mikro regions all aimed to sustainable and more railway focused transport system development

4. 4 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Myths and realities in transport sector Following all these initiatives we are faced with the following facts and figures Road transport growth Rail transport growth

5. 5 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Myths and realities in transport sector Consequently are the following impact to the CO 2 and GHG emissions CO 2 emissions GHG emissions

6. 6 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Myths and realities in transport sector Following these facts there is a serious question to what extend we are ready to challenge future prospective of the European wide transport sectore where the global figures would, with some delay for present crisis,most probably be as follows

7. 7 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

8. 8 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality When having in mind the foreseen development of the transport infrastructure in Asian countries and movement of industry in these countries to the continental site

9. 9 than high time to answer the questions from the beginning appears with urgently needed answers on when, which and to what extend interoperable corridors from global prospective are to be developed Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

10. 10 When the decision makers role in transport sector is fulfilled than it is our, so the railway sectors, responsibility to behave accordingly. Before all, the international, constructive, solution oriented coordination from the concrete experts, to managerial level. For various reasons the experiences might not indicate such behaviour. Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

11. 11 There are many initiatives, programmes, projects, strategies which all are focused at particular region. Unfortunately there is a lack of consistency and coordination at national as well as on international level. Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

12. nearly all European IMs and ABs are RNE Members –Exceptions: IMs/ABs from Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Baltic States and Albania –IMs from Greece and Turkey are in current talks about RNE Membership RNE Membership Status 08/2012 29 August 2012 12 Railway Days Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania

13. 13 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality The core business of RNE is to provide support to European Rail Infrastructure Managers with the planning, selling and managing of international train paths. RNE is following a market-oriented approach. RNE is designing the entire rail infrastructure production process. In the end of 2010 RNE has additionally received the mandate to become the service provider of choice and expert support provider for corridor organisations. Sales & Timetabling Corridor Management Operations & After Sales

14. 14 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Implementation of freight regulation 913/2010 requires standardised procedures and tools across all corridors Existing methods, processes and tools that RNE and its Members had developed and operated could be chosen RNE Members mandated RNE to support the IMs as service provider of choice and expert support provider for corridor organisations in the areas of developing methods, and processes and developing and operating tools”

15. 15 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality CorridorMember StatesYears 3 SE, DK, DE, AT, IT 3 5PL, CZ, SK, AT, IT, SI3 8DE, NL, BE, PL, LT3

16. 16 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality RNE Corridor Management…. increases international path ordering jointly shapes corridor infrastructure capacity gives a reliable forecast on available corridor infrastructure measures and improves train punctuality along international corridors leads to more efficient international rail transport provided a test-ground for processes required by the regulation 11 RNE Corridors were set up to push the implementation of RNE processes and tools.

17. 17 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality ■ RNE set up Work Packages based on the Freight Regulation’s requirements

18. 18 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality Besides huge investments in interoperable infrastructure and rolling stock some minor investments in tolls, methods and processes would also have a significant added value to international rail transport. Regardless the fact that our, IMs and ABs experts were developing such toll, process or method, we might at the national level find many reasons not to implement it.

19. 19 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality When the correct answers to the bellow question are identified by each steakholder Who are the adresee and who is benefiting? Decission makers – Governments, Parliaments Decission makers – Governments, Parliaments Infrastructure managers Infrastructure managers Undertakings Undertakings Customers Customers Than the answer on interoperable corridors would also be possible by particular stakeholder

20. 20 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2011 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport For the South Eastern Europe we were commonly with the national partners from the complex region through the SEETAC project seeking the possibilities for future sustainable transport system (in which the rail sector by common opinion has the great prospective) that would base on multimodality and rational use of energy. Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

21. 21 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2011 BucharestRomania Boris ŽIVEC RaiNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport for Railway Transport It is about time to Stand and what is even more important to Withstand with the sustainable back grounded and on rational use of energy based transport system what will give us a chance for social welfare for us and much more for our successors. Would whichever defined and agreed upon corridors be a part of it depend by majority on our good will, consistency and persistency? Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality

22. 22 Railway Days 09 – 10 October 2012 BucharestRomania Thank you for your patience Boris ŽIVEC RailNetEurope Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport Tel: +386 2 234 14 27 E-mail: boris.zivec@azp.siboris.zivec@azp.si Fully interoperable pan European corridors – myths or reality The wider Black Sea area Railway Investment Summit