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Wider elements: Climate dimension of

Core Network Corridors

1. Mitigation of Climate Change (curbing GHG emissions)

2. Adaptation to Climate change

Carlo De Grandis MOVE.B.1

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1) Climate change mitigation

• DECARBONISING TRANSPORT•

I. Infrastructure matters (why?)

II. What's in it for Core Network Corridors

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White Paper strategic objective (recall)

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Infrastructure as enabler (1/2)• First and foremost, modal shift – a different impact WTW (from Well to

wheel) – sources EEA – EC.DG MOVE:• Railways vs. Road transport: - 65% GHG emissions (freight transport – EU energy mix and share of

diesel / eletrified tracks)

• IWW vs. Road transport: -87% Energy consumption (~90% less CO2)

• On passengers, even HSR (more energy intensive than conventional rail) is the most enetgy effective solution for long-distance transport: -80% vs. Air transport, -60% vs. Road transport with comparable load factors

• Corridors -> More Cross-border flows on Rail, IWW

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Infrastructure as enabler (2/2)• Impact on capacity

• Longer sidings: + 50% Capacity in Southern EU for freight

• ITS: + ERTMS -> +30% train slots, SESAR – 10-20% air path length…

• ….

• Availability of clean fuels along the infrastructure• EE for land transport (and share of RES-E potentially deployed)

• Electrification of Railways

• LNG (impact on maritime / IWW / Land transport)

• H2 (higher efficiency - 200/300% than ICE – decarbonisation depending on energy source)

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That all calls for multimodal corridors• 9 Core Network Corridors

• MoS & ERTMS as horizontal priorities

• Support the implementation of the core network

• Synchronise investments to optimise network benefits• Multimodal, involving at least 3 Member States

• Flexible governance structures, involving stakeholders

• Core Network Corridors aligned and partly overlapping with Rail Freight Corridors

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What could be measured (1/2 - Analysing the corridors top-down)?

• Potential modal shift along key sections of each corridor (typically border-crossing) - assessing the difference between current modal split and "optimised" ones considering efficient transport modes capacity: a proxy of the possible efficiency / energy / GHG gains

• Potential efficiency gains through digitalisation of transport (e.g.: ERTMS) - additional capacity (notably on rail).

• Roll-out of Issue papers along the Corridors

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What could be measured (2/2 –projects – bottom-up)?

• Potential of decarbonising energy along corridors (ref. project list + National plans - clean power for transport):

• Deployment on EE across modes (railway incl.);

• Deployment of LNG maritime/land (-30% carbon intensive – and cleaner – 0 SOx, 0 PM, less noise…);

• Deployment of H2 (Tank to Wheel efficiency of H2+Fuel Cell ~ 50-60% vs. 20% for ICE).

• Showcase of best practices on the optimisation of transport operations and load factors coming from:

• Innovation (incl. ITS / logistic single windows etc.);

• Policies / accompanying measures.

• Strategic/very large projects CBA as a data source

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Some references

• http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/about-jec/jec-well-wheels-analyses-wtw

• http://www.c2es.org/technology/factsheet/HydrogenFuelCellVehicles

• http://cer.be/sites/default/files/publication/160525_Longer%20Trains_Facts%20and%20Experiences%20in%20Europe_final_0.pdf

• https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/inland_en

• http://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/modes/inland/studies/doc/2005_charging_and_princing_study.pdf

• (very) indicative capacity in TEUS for a track=2, 740-m long trains=90, average barge BeNeLux/FR: 120-150)

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2) Adaptation to Climate change (1/3)

• I. Mapping Climate change-induced risks / stress on the Corridors (and contingency plans) on the basis of the existing information

• e.g.: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/hazards-and-risks-climate-change-impacts• https://unfccc.int/files/adaptation/cancun_adaptation_framework/adaptation_committee/

application/pdf/20150302_harnisch.pdf• https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/resilience-large-investments-and-critical-infrastructures-

europe-climate-change

• Key questions:• - Flood-prone areas? Bridges?• - Drought-affected IWW?/- Other climate-related

risks?

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Adaptation to Climate change (2/3)

• II. Mapping projects leading to adaptation / more resilient infrastructure

• - analyse projects from the projects' list

• - identify major shortcomings (high risk and no mainstreaming / projects mitigating it)

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Adaptation to Climate change (3/3)

• III. Provide methodology for mainstreaming adaptation in projects development

• E.g.: fact sheet on Climate Change and Major Projects. http://ec.europa.eu/clima/publications/docs/major_projects_en.pdf