Priority Axes and Projects
At its meeting in Essen in 1994, the European Council endorsed a list of 14 TEN-T ‘specific’ projects, drawn up by a group chaired by then Commission Vice-President Henning Christophersen. Following the 2003 recommendations from the Van Miert TEN-T high-level group, the Commission compiled a list of 30 priority projects to be launched before 2010.
The 30 axes and priority projects are: A map showing the 30 projects, in PDF format, may be found here:
- Railway axis Berlin–Verona/Milan–Bologna–Naples–Messina–Palermo - map
- High-speed railway axis Paris–Brussels–Cologne–Amsterdam–London - map
- High-speed railway axis of south-west Europe - map
- High-speed railway axis east - map
- Betuwe line - map
- Railway axis Lyons–Trieste–Divača/ Koper–Divača–Ljubljana–Budapest–Ukrainian border - map
- Motorway axis Igoumenitsa/Patras–Athens–Sofia–Budapest - map
- Multimodal axis Portugal/Spain–rest of Europe - map
- Railway axis Cork–Dublin–Belfast–Stranraer - map
- Malpensa Airport - map
- Øresund Bridge - map
- Nordic triangle railway/road axis - map
- United Kingdom/Ireland/Benelux road axis - map
- West Coast Main Line - map
- Galileo - map
- Freight railway axis Sines/Algeciras-Madrid-Paris - map
- Railway axis Paris–Strasbourg–Stuttgart–Vienna–Bratislava - map
- Rhine/Meuse–Main–Danube inland waterway axis - map
- High-speed rail interoperability on the Iberian peninsula - map
- Fehmarn belt railway axis - map
- Motorways of the sea - map
- Railway axis Athens–Sofia–Budapest–Vienna–Prague– Nuremberg/Dresden - map
- Railway axis Gdansk–Warsaw–Brno/Bratislava–Vienna - map
- Railway axis Lyons/Genoa–Basle–Duisburg–Rotterdam/Antwerp - map
- Motorway axis Gdansk–Brno/Bratislava–Vienna - map
- Railway/road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/continental Europe - map
- Rail Baltica axis Warsaw–Kaunas–Riga–Tallinn–Helsinki - map
- Eurocaprail on the Brussels–Luxembourg–Strasbourg railway axis - map
- Railway axis of the Ionian/Adriatic intermodal corridor - map
- Inland waterway Seine–Scheldt -map
Read more about this topic: Trans-European Transport Networks
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