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Opportunity Study of the Danube Region – the Adriatic Traffic Corridor

Croatia has a very advantageous traffic location in the centre of Europe. It is located on the main European traffic corridors, among others, on the VII Danube and the X Sava corridor. They can be connected with the Adriatic through the corridors Vb and Vc. Existing traffic system in Croatia is inappropriate to meet most recent technological demands, as well as economy needs for synchronization of the European traffic network and philosophy. The future of Croatian inland navigation is to include Danube into a "combined river-railway traffic corridor Danube region-The Adriatic". It starts in the Danube port of Vukovar and ends in the Adriatic port of Rijeka. The Combined river-railway traffic corridor Danube Region-The Adriatic will consist of the future multipurpose Danube-Sava canal between Vukovar and Šamac, improved Sava waterway from Šamac to Sisak, followed by Sisak- Zagreb-Rijeka railway which exists already. Three possible development scenarios for the riverine part of the corridor have been observed. The first scenario includes river training of the Sava River toward the IV navigation class, the second scenario includes training of the Sava River as a IV class waterway with the multipurpose Danube-Sava canal (Vb class) and the third scenario includes the canalized Sava River as a Vb class waterway with the multipurpose Danube-Sava canal. The considered economic aspect includes navigation, use of water power, agricultural aspect, forestry, water management and environmental aspect for each scenario individually. On the basis of the scenarios, corresponding cost and benefit scheme has been determined as well as investment analysis which includes profit and other financial criteria. Performed multi-criterion analyses state precise propositions for realization of each scenario respectively.

traffic; corridors; river-railway; waterway; multipurpose canal

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