Overview
The Rhine-Danube Corridor starts in the northern German cities of Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Hamburg and Rostock and continues to towards Hannover, Berlin, Hannover, and on to Prague. Where the Northern corridor axis meets with the Eastern axis that starts in the German cities of Frankfurt and Kalsruhe going east to Prague and Munich respectively. The former is further connected to Strasbourg and leads via Austria, Slovakia and Hungary to the Romanian ports of Constanta and Galati. The axis provides a connection to Slovakia and further extends to Lviv in Ukraine. It covers rail, road, airports, ports, RRTs and the inland waterway system of the Elbe main river, Elbe Lateral Canal, Elbe Mittellandkanal, Weser, Sleusenkanal, and Vltava river in the northern part of the corridor and the Main, Main-Danube Canal, the entire Danube downstream of Kelheim and the Váh, Sava and Tisa river.
The key projects are removing the bottlenecks along the inland waterways and the railway sections Stuttgart – Ulm and München – Freilassing, Dresden – Prague, Vienna – Bratislava – Budapest
Main bottlenecks and missing links
The main missing links are cross-border rail network connections between Germany and its neighbours, France, Austria and Czechia. Bottlenecks in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria—and between Austria and Slovakia also need to be addressed. Navigation of the Rhine River and its connection with the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal are of a high standard, but must be matched by the Danube River so that these inland waterways can offer a genuine alternative modal choice as a continuous integrated corridor for freight transport. The Danube is also a main export corridor for Ukraine. In addition, the Western Balkans section of the Danube plays an important part in the functioning of this corridor and must therefore attain similar high standards.
move-rhine-danube-etc@ec.europa.eu
Mr. Herbert Pribitzer, Adviser of the European Coordinator
Herbert.PRIBITZER@ec.europa.eu
Postal address:
Rhine-Danube ETC / TEN-T
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Rue de Mot 28
1049 Brussels
Belgium
Maps
Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor Compliance Maps
Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor Map
Workplans
1st Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor work plan
2nd Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor work plan
3rd Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor work plan
4th Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor work plan
5th Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor work plan
Studies
Rhine-Danube Core Network Corridor Study (2014)
Rhine-Danube Core Network Corridor Study annexes (2014)
Study on Rhine-Danube TEN-T Core Network Corridor (2017)
Study on Rhine-Danube TEN-T Core Network Corridor - Western Balkans (2017)
Study on Rhine-Danube TEN-T Core Network Corridor - Executive Summary (2017)