The Regional Balkans Infrastructure Study Update : Enhancing Regional Connectivity, Identifying Impediments and Priority Remedies
In an effort to further develop the South East Europe transport observatory (SEETO) comprehensive network, integrate it in the European Union’s (EU) Trans-European transport (TEN-T) network and strengthen the underlying transport planning systems,...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/902801503506489260/main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28413 |
| Summary: | In an effort to further develop the
South East Europe transport observatory (SEETO)
comprehensive network, integrate it in the European Union’s
(EU) Trans-European transport (TEN-T) network and strengthen
the underlying transport planning systems, a grant was
awarded by the Western Balkans infrastructure framework
(WBIF) for the update of the regional Balkans infrastructure
study (REBIS). The motivation for the update was the fact
that since the completion of REBIS in 2003, there had been
no review or update of the study’s projections and
recommendations that will in turn enable an informed
assessment and updating of the regional priorities for
investment in the SEETO comprehensive network. The main
objective of the REBIS update was to develop a priority
action plan for enhancing the efficiency of the SEETO
comprehensive network. The action plan identifies priority
physical investments as well as non-physical improvements
including regulatory, institutional, and managerial changes
required to reduce impediments to the efficient performance
of the network. The focus of the final report is the
assessment of the 2030 traffic projections under low and
moderate and moderate and high economic growth scenarios
against the capacity of the network under the do-nothing
scenario and the full SEETO scenario and on the development
of the priority action plan. The report is organized as
follows: section one gives introduction .Section two
presents a brief assessment of the 2003 REBIS traffic
projections against reported counts. Section three presents
key non-physical impediments to transport and trade
facilitation, as well as the costs and benefits associated
with their alleviation. Section four presents the 2030
traffic projections for both the low and moderate and
moderate and high economic growth scenarios. Section five
presents the results of the capacity assessment of the
existing and planned networks to handle the projected
traffic. Section six presents the methodology used in the
preliminary economic efficiency analysis for assessing the
physical interventions and the results, while section seven
presents the priority action plan. Section eight provides
concluding comments. |
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