Mediterranean

N° of projects
120
100
80
60
40
41
31
81
42
96
71
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
Costs (B €)
20
19
5
14
7
20
10
0
0
N° of Projects Cost
Figure 9 – Total number of projects and related cost per each project category
NB – The costs shown in the figure reflect the financial needs expressed by projects with
fully available cost information only.
As shown in the figure above, rail is by far the most represented mode in the Project list
for the corridor, with about 24% of projects addressing rail works (corresponding to
about 77 billion €).
Other modes, such as road, maritime and multimodal and airport categories follow in
terms of number of projects (with respective percentage amounting to about 17% of
total projects for road, 20% for maritime and 10% both for multimodal and airport) and
much lower figures for project cost (approximately below 10 billion €).
This allocation of costs presented above reflects both the general objectives of the
Regulation (EU) N°1315/2013 and corridor specific objectives, as specified in the 2014
corridor study, such as:
• providing the infrastructure network with the capacity required, by eliminating the
existing bottlenecks and creating the “missing links”, in particular for the rail
network;
• assuring the adoption of EU standards for each mode (interoperability); and
• guaranteeing coordination between different modes of transport and a smooth
connection between nodes and road / rail network.
The number of projects and the cost 11 per each MS are shown in the following figure.
11 There are projects without defined project costs, and hence those projects do not
contribute to the figures shown.
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