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25,310 km for the rail sector and 22,930 for the road sector. The costs were estimated at
€ 32.6 and 39.6 billion until 2015, respectively, i.e. a total of € 72.9 billion, but the
numbers are somewhat disputable. More importantly, the status report revealed once
again that many of the so-called corridors hardly deserved their name, since many of
them branch out into several routes that are sometimes hundreds of kilometers apart. Rail
and road corridors are also often running along very different routes. Taking the example
of Corridor IV running from Germany to Romania, Turkey and Greece, figures 7.2 and
7.3 vividly illustrate the emerging network character of the corridors. Of course, the
inclusion of more and more branches is largely a reflection of candidate states’ efforts to
also include secondary and tertiary links between major cities. Note that in the case of
Corridor IV, instead of defining one main corridor route linking Vienna, Bratislava and
Budapest, several closely parallel - and therefore competing - rail lines are included in the
corridor alignments.
2001, TINA VIENNA became directly affiliated to the City of Vienna, continuing the previous work of the
TINA Secretariat at a national level, while at the same time continuing to work as a consulting office. The
current TINA website (http://www.tinavienna.at/buero.htm) explains its continued raison d’être as follows:
The purpose of the foundation of this company was the implementation of the PHARE project
"Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment" (TINA)-process in Central and Eastern Europe as a
technical support body, named the "TINA Secretariat". To carry out the work, TINA VIENNA has,
based on the excellent contacts within the Vienna Cities Administration [sic], established a wide
network of contacts in the member states and in all CEECs, including Ministries, Universities and
individual experts. One of the main strength [sic] of TINA VIENNA is the expertise in international
strategic transport planning in Central and Eastern Europe.
All projects, [sic] which TINA VIENNA has undertaken were financed by international financing
institutes such as the EIB, EU-PHARE and TACIS.
Nevertheless, copyrights for the TINA maps are always credited to the European Commission. Note that
TINA VIENNA is currently also undertaking a Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment for Malta.