A study on the development of the fifth pan-European transport route shows that the improvement of the railway infrastructure on the route know as the fifth corridor would bring many advantages to Slovenia and two Italian regions, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slavia Veneta.
The strategic study was commissioned by the Trieste-based Central European Initiative (CEI), whose director-general Harald Kreid presented it in Ljubljana on Thursday together with Giuseppe Razza of the Corridor 5 Permanent Secretariat. The study was carried out by English civil engineering consultancy Scott Wilson.
The best scenario which envisages the construction of a high-speed railway section between Italy's Trieste and Slovenia's Divaca as part of the route would increase GDP of Slovenia and the two mentioned regions by EUR 8.6bn and create an additional 116,000 jobs by 2045.
The project also envisages saving EUR 27.9m by reducing the number of traffic accidents, a reduction of CO2 emissions and cutting social costs by one billion euros by 2045. It is also expected to increase the competitiveness of sea ports in the area, primarily Trieste and Slovenia's Koper. The authors of the study pointed out that regional and state governments should provide coordinated economic, transport and environmental policies in order to achieve positive effects of the fifth corridor infrastructure.
The route runs from Lyon in France to Ukraine's Kiev, with the majority of the route crossing Italy, Slovenia and Hungary. The most important part of the corridor for Slovenia is the section between Trieste, Divaca and Koper.
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