Maps
Romanian Road Network
Romanian Railway Network
European Roads
Pan-European corridors (Helsinki corridors)
TEM (The Trans-European Motorway)
TER (Trans-European Railway).
5-TINA (Transportation Infrastructure Needs Assessment)
TEN-Tr (Trans-European Transport Network)
European Roads
Pan-European corridors (Helsinki corridors)
Following the opening of the former eastern block at the beginning of the 1990's, a series of Pan-European Transportation Conferences were held with the purpose of identifying the transportation infrastructure development needs of the Eastern Europe:
- The First Pan-European Transportation Conference (Prague, 1991) concluded that the accent must be placed on a corridor-based approach
- The main outcome of the second conference (Crete, 1994) was the definition of nine transportation corridors - the so-called Helsinki corridors or Pan-European corridors
- Third Pan-European Transportation Conference (Helsinki, 1997) as a consequence of the lobby that the Balkan countries made for a better connection between the Western Europe and the Balkans, a tenth corridor was added to the network bringing additional connectivity in the Balkans
The corridors are road-rail corridors, with the exception of Corridor VII, which is represented by the Danube segment downstream of Vienna.
The corridors form a network spanning from the west (Nuremberg) to the east (Nijnyi Novgorod), and from the north (Helsinki) to the south (Thessaloniki). The network formed by the Pan-European corridors is presented in Map No. 2 - Europe.
TEM (The Trans-European Motorway)
The Trans-European Motorway project (TEM) it was started in 1977 by countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
The purpose of the project is to plan, design and build a high quality motorway network, to facilitate the road traffic within the TEM countries, between these countries and the adjacent regions (Western Europe, Asia, Africa) and between the adjacent regions themselves.
According to the current version of the TEM network, its length is 23,858 km, of which only about 30% has been built.
Map No.3 - member countries.
TER (Trans-European Railway).
In 1990, a similar initiative has been launched for a modern railway network at Eastern European level: the TER - Trans-European Railway (TER).
Map No.4 - member countries.
5-TINA (Transportation Infrastructure Needs Assessment)
The TINA process was launched in 1995. The backbone of the network was formed by the ten Helsinki Corridors, and subsequently additional network components were proposed, analyzed, and added to the network.
The TINA network is similar conceptually to the TEN-Tr (Trans European Transportation Networks) in the EU countries. However, when designing the TINA network an important constraint was that for any given TINA country the cost of building the network should not be above 1.5% of the projected GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of that country until 2015 (which is the time horizon for constructing the network).
Map No.5 - Europe.
TEN-Tr (Trans-European Transport Network)
The TINA network is similar conceptually to the TEN-Tr (Trans European Transportation Networks) in the EU countries. However, when designing the TINA network an important constraint was that for any given TINA country the cost of building the network should not be above 1.5% of the projected GDP of that country until 2015 (which is the time horizon for constructing the network).
As the countries covered by TINA joined or will join the European Union, the TINA network is becoming the TEN-Tr (Trans-European Transport Network).
Map No.6 - Romania.
