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Mediterranean Seas. Figure 7.1 shows the map of the Pan-European Transport Network
at the time of the Helsinki Summit.
Figure 7.1 The Pan-European Transport Network with the 10 Helsinki Corridors
Source: European Commission
Arguing from a purely efficiency-oriented point of view, one would expect that
the major criterion for the selection of the corridors would have been traffic flows. This
was not the case, however. There is confusion even among DG TREN staff as to how
exactly the corridors were decided upon. When asked to explain the history of the
selection process, one expert said that he himself was told that there were several experts
who gave input at various stages of the process, but that the original routes were
researched by a desk officer at the Commission, who had based his selections mainly on
library research in Brussels. Other anecdotal evidence of participants at the Pan-