Mediterranean

country relation is between Italy and Spain, with almost 10 million passengers per year.
France – Italy and France – Spain have both similar air traffic volumes (7.5 million).
The rail market share is generally weak, in particular for flows with Spain; flows between
Hungary and Slovenia / Croatia have significantly higher rail market shares (15-20%)
than the other flows, but on relatively small volumes of demand.
Mode
1000 pax / year
(2010)
%
Road 51,687 64%
Rail 2,514 3%
Air 26,627 33%
Total 80,828
Figure 6 – Total passenger demand between Corridor countries
Passenger flows in the “market area” of the Corridor (i.e. based on origin-destination
pairs that cross at least one common border of two Corridor countries) can be
summarised as follows:
Total market (area
1000 pax / year)
2010
Road 46,261
Rail 3,001
Air 79,659
Total 128,921
Rail Share 2.3%
Figure 7 – Total passenger flows in the marker area of the Corridor
These international passenger flows in the Corridor’s market of about 129 million
passengers per year in 2010 are concentrated mainly in the western part of the Corridor.
The low rail share can be explained by the fact that a large part of these passenger
movements are short-distance cross-border trips, which are still carried out more
efficiently by road than by rail.
The other important flows are the flows between major cities and to touristic zones of the
Corridor countries or neighbouring countries ; the distance between these major nodes is
generally really high (over 1000 km in most of the cases), which gives the air transport a
tremendous market advantage for these type of flows.
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