Progress Report 4

Support to the Integration of Ukraine in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T
4th Progress Report
Stage 3: Strengthening strategic planning and Information Management
During this period the project established an Excel model designed to be populated with data to
analyse and assess the existing traffic flows, where known. The location of nodes and their associated
links has been determined and traffic activity between them is being collected with the support of all
local experts. This is described in more detail in interim report 8.1, an updated summary of which is
attached to this report.
All the transport related projects are being collected into a single database for later multi-criteria
analysis (MCA).
The project databases require accurate data which necessitates the active participation of staff of
MoTC and sub-sectors in data collection.
It is also planned to make a comparative analysis of the compliance of transport statistics compiled in
Ukraine with those of Eurostat.
Discussions continue with Ukradiprador (who are contractors to Ukravtodor) concerning initiatives to
link the data collection to the forecasting requirement of Ukraine using GIS systems such as MapInfo
and ArcView.
Stage 4: Provision of financial mechanisms for development of maintenance and
management of infrastructure
The work done to date is detailed in interim report 3.2 that was circulated with Progress 3 report.
4.3 WP 2: Railway Transport
The priorities for the rail team are summarised as:
• Acting as the catalyst to facilitate decisions regarding reform
• Assisting UZ with unbundling its accounting systems
• Contributing towards the preparation of plans to separate rail infrastructure from operations
• Assisting the MoTC to separate state regulating functions from commercial functions.
Due to the delay in the railway reform process, despite the issue of a Railway decree on 16 th
December 2009 it became clear that progress in this area was restricted. The Project Monitor came to
a similar conclusion and in February 2010 recommended that progress on rail issues be suspended
until clear indicators on the reform progress and commitment are in place.
Accordingly, work on rail restructuring was scaled back until progress could be made with agreeing
clear indicators.
Stage 1: Definition of development scenarios
The project continued to generate background information from rail freight users and service providers
and used the intermodal transport model to examine the possible impact of some of the reforms being
tabled. The model being prepared by the Project will consider the possible development scenarios for
Ukraine (demography, regional economic development, industries and services development,) and
this will produce transport forecasts.
The rail team secured traffic data from UZ, MoTC and other sources, which provides the basic raw
traffic information in terms of passenger ticket data (origin and destination pairings), freight traffic data
and the percentage of route capacity currently used.
The rail experts re-commenced meetings with MoTC in June 2010, and at the initial meeting with Mr.
Snitko (the new Head of Sector of the Rail Department) made very good progress towards defining the
basis for active participation in the railway reform process. Subsequent to this MoTC supplied the
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