Mediterranean

SLOVENIA
Current status
The most relevant critical issues are presented hereunder:
a) the existing limitations to train length (570 to 700m): the Slovenian railway
network allows the use of trains with a length of 740 m on the sections: Divača -
Koper, Pragersko - Hodoš (SI-HU border-crossing). For other sections of the
Slovenian railway network, train length limitation exist (expected to be overcome
by 2020 or 2030);
b) the current restrictions on the maximum admissible operating speed: 41.2%
of the Slovenian railway network on the Mediterranean corridor allow maximum
speeds for freight trains of 100 km/h or more. The remaining sections have speed
limitation issues;
c) the axle load limitations: 88.1% of the Slovenian railway network on the
Mediterranean corridor allow an axle load of 22.5 tons. There are on-going
activities which will increase the permissible axle load to 22.5 tons on the entire
corridor by 2020;
d) the low standards of the conventional line Divaca –Koper, characterised by
a lack of capacity (utilisation rate about 92%), allowed speed below 70 km/h;
e) the need of upgrading road/rail last mile connections to the port of Koper;
f) ERTMS has been deployed on the Mediterranean corridor in Slovenia, except on
the section of the Zidani Most - Dobova (SI-HR border-crossing);
g) the lack of capacity in the Ljubljana node.
On-going and planned main interventions
The following map depicts the matching between the detected critical issues and the ongoing
and/or planned interventions reported in the Corridor Project list.
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