Development of the Trans-European Networks or how to invest 200 billion euro. The TEN-STAC project objectives are to address the following four tasks: traffic forecasts for 2020, including traffic assignment, estimate of international traffic load on the network and socio-economic and environmental impacts according to the various scenarios; a review of national transport infrastructure plans and macro-economic analysis to estimate potential public financing in transport infrastructure until 2020; detailed analyses of 25 international corridors comprising screening of bottlenecks and environmental risks and guidelines for selecting projects of great European interest within corridors; extensive financial analyses for a selection of the most important projects. The study area includes the present EU member states, Switzerland and Norway, the 12 candidate countries and transport flows to and from the rest of the world. The transport forecasts are strongly influenced by the policy measures assumed in the three forecast scenarios. A crucial point in this connection is the future states in the Economic Union. At the same time, transport distances will also increase.The modal split also shows a different development here, with the share of rail transport actually declining. (Author/publisher)
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