1. RETRACK: Setting up an innovative rail freight service between North Sea and Black Sea REorganising of Transport networks by Advanced RAil freight Concepts RETRACK: an Integrated EU porject Ministry of Transport The Netherlands 15 July 2010, The Hague Min Zhang, TNO Mobility & Logistics

2. 15 July 2010 Page 2 Outline Background and objective; Layout of corridor Work activities Pilot – Launching RETRACK Rail freight service Future planning End

3. 15 July 2010 Page 3 Background FP6, Integrated Project, supported by DG MOVE/EC Objective: develop, demonstrate, and implement innovative and market-proven rail freight service along NW-SE corridor, by a group of private railway companies emerged under the rail liberalisation wave. Project duration: May 2007– Dec. 2012 Consortium partners R&D; IT Consultancy Rail operator; Railway companies ……

4. RETRACK corridor 15 July 2010 Page 4 Rotterdam: dry/liquid bulk Maritime containers Duisburg: All cargo Wels or Vienna: All cargo Bratislava/Kosice: Steel/automotive Budapest: All cargo Feeder point for Slovakia Oradea, Constanta, All cargo Ludwigshafen: (1) dry/liquid bulk

5. 15 July 2010 Page 5 Work activities

6. 15 July 2010 Page 6 First demonstration launched 27/02/10

7. Page 7 Transported goods: -Automotives - Chemical, - Agri-bulk - Continental & maritime containers Keulen Passau Rotterdam Györ Parties: TransPetrol: Rail operator Traction providerrs on main route: MWB: NL – Keulen – Passau LTE: Passau – Hegyeshalom CER: Hegyeshalom – Gyor : Gyor – xxx: ServTrans Train Characteristics: -600 m in length -Up to 2.200 t (1800 ton) -Frequency: >1x/wk, more demand - Transit time: 21 hours (16 hours) Debrecen Orosháza Hajduboszormeny Hegyeshalom Pilot status-quo Szabadegyhaza Antwerp Constanta Current challenges: - Extend service to RO - Infra. condition, charges in HU, RO. - High shunting costs -OSS not working

8. 15 July 2010 Page 8 Future planning WP12 R. Knowledge Base WP13 Corridor extension

9. 15 July 2010 Page 9 WP12: RETRACK Knowledge Base Five themes: Traffic & Infrastructure; Service & Biz modes; Market condition; Legislation & governance; Knowledge Transformation of findings, data, information into knowledge Data and knowledge collected, assessed, presented on a corridor basis; dynamic thematic geo-map for geospatial data Compatibility with work in TENTec, Transtools

10. 15 July 2010 Page 10 WP13: Corridor extension Trans-Syberian System TRACECA Legend Main Retrack Route Land TRACECA Extension Sea TRACECA Extension Main TransSib Extension TransSib-Retrack Link Retrack South Europe Link Corridor connection points(to be defined) Way from Asia KAZACHSTAN – WEST CHINA Connect RU & CH via Eurasian land- bridges Main reason: increasing dialogues Objective: policy; potentials; feasibility

11. RETRACK: Setting up an innovative rail freight service between North Sea and Black Sea REorganising of Transport networks by Advanced RAil freight Concepts Min Zhang & Gerwin Zomer: Project Manager TNO Mobility & Logistics T: +31 15 269 6828 E: min.zhang@tno.nl; gerwin.zomer@tno.nlmin.zhang@tno.nlgerwin.zomer@tno.nl