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Input to the cross-fertilisation workshop
Jan Roga / Łukasz Górzynski
Municipality of Wrocław, Wrocław Development Office
This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme
co-financed by the ERDF.
www.viaregiaplus.eu
General information
 Via Regia Plus – Sustainable Mobility and Regional Cooperation along the
Pan-European Transport Corridor III (www.viaregiaplus.eu)
 Cooperation of 14 cities and regions from Poland, Germany, Slovakia and
the Ukraine along the Pan-European Transport Corridor III – Central axis
 Project duration: 2008-2011, budget: 3,2 mln EUR
 Objectives:
- Improvement of accessibility
- Strengthening of node cities
and metropolitan areas
- Activation of potentials
for tourism
 Lead Partner: Municipality of Wrocław
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Input to the cross-fertilisation workshop
 Effects of infrastructure improvements on travel times
along the PETC III – Central axis (Accessibility study)
 Integration of rail transport in the German-Polish-Czech
border region (Timetable study)
 Economic migration as joint challenge – Comparative
analysis of Wrocław, Dresden and Lviv (Migration study)
 Promotion of the Via Regia as tourist route (Via Mobil, Via
Regia brochures)
 Outputs with important milestones during the next reporting
periods (Next steps)
 Joint map of local action / Joint calendar of events
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Accessibility study – Effects of infrastructure improvements on
travel times along the PETC III – Central axis
 Methodical steps:
- Identification of node cities (delimitation of the reference network)
- Definition of 3 scenarios of infrastructure investments
- Calculation of resulting travel times
 Objective: Evaluation of spatial effects (accessibility effects) of
infrastructure investments
 Scenarios:
- Scenario 1 – Base development scenario
- Scenario 2 – Possible further developments
- Scenario 3 – Development of transnational high-speed schemes
 Draft of results available, final report in preparation
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Node cities (delimitation of reference network)
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Scenario 1 – Base development scenario
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Scenario 2 – Further developments
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Scenario 3 – Development of transnational highspeed schemes
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Comparison of all scenarios (European node cities)
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Examples for the visualisation of accessibility effects
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Accessibility study – Results & conclusions
 The base development scenario leads to significant improvements
of national relations
 The further developments proposed by partners would extend these
effects to cross-border relations, too
 High-speed lines in PL / CZ effect the Via Regia corridor, since
selected relations (e.g. Berlin-Kraków) might be served faster by
alternative routes
 General conclusions:
- There is rather no use to discuss about high-speed investments along
the Via Regia corridor, taking into account the relevance of the
corridor for freight transport, too
- Improvement of cross-border connections should have high priority
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Accessibility study – Next steps
 Evaluation of investments in terms of travel time available, but
evaluation in terms of cost/benefit ratio yet missing
- Need to evaluate results from the point of view of costs and
possible benefits
 Idea about investments available, but no idea about possible
demand and possible travel offers (in terms of quality and
quantity)
- Need to develop large-scale concept for travel offers, taking into
account possible demand
 Complementary studies will investigate additional potentials of
long-distance connections (e.g. Berlin-Vienna) as well as
investment strategies for crucial sections (e.g. Cottbus-Görlitz)
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Timetable study – Integration of rail transport in
the German-Polish-Czech border region
 Objective: Development of a cross-border
integrated timetable concept
 Methodical steps:
- Analysis of demand and infrastructure
- Development of cross-border integrated
timetable concept
- Definition of investment measures needed
to realise the timetable concept
- Allocation of measures to priorities
 Currently, the concept is verified by the partners and it is checked, which
measures might gain broad political support
 Quite ambitious approach with possibly high regional benefit for
integrated development
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Migration study – Economic
migration as joint challenge
 Economic migration = megatrend
along the Via Regia
 Methodical steps:
- Comparative analysis of attitudes
towards paid work migration in
Wrocław, Dresden and Lviv
(phone interviews)
- Analysis of framework conditions of labour markets (expert interviews)
 General results:
- Germany is the second (after the UK) most popular destination of migration for
Polish workers
- The Saxon labour market is less attractive than in the western federal states of
Germany; the Polish labour market is still unattractive for German workers
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Migration study – Economic
migration as joint challenge
 Regional results:
- Rather low unemployment in Germany,
but lack of skilled workers expected
- In Wrocław the number of queries concerning
Polish specialists made by Germans has doubled
- High quality technical universities are the source of welleducated personnel
- Additionally, job offers for specialists and social facilities
are less competitive than those provided in Germany
 Further impulses for the integration of labour markets
will result from the opening of the German market
 Significant effects on travel demand expected – but will
offers of public transport be competitive?
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Via Mobil – Promotion of the Via Regia
as tourist route
 In 2011, the Third Saxon State Exhibition will take place in
Görlitz and Zgorzelec
 Theme: „Via Regia – 800 Years of Movement and Mobility“
 From June to October 2010 the Via Mobil travelled along the
Via Regia from Santiago de Compostela to Kiev to promote
this event
 From Eisenach to Lviv this activity was used to promote the
cooperation and the objecives of Via Regia Plus, too
 Result: Very high
visibility of the
Via Regia theme
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Left:
Political
visibility
Right:
Visibility in
public
space
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Via Regia brochures – Exploring the
project area by rail and bus
 In 2008 the first edition of the Via Regia brochure
was published (language: DE)
 In 2009 and 2010 updated versions followed, 2010
as extended version (languages: DE / PL)
 Objectives:
- Promotion of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia
as tourist destinations
- Information about timetables and possibilities to
use public transport to explore these areas
 Very successful marketing activity, one of the most
popular and visible outputs of the project
 Latest innovation: Travel flyers for selected trains
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Next steps
 Currently preparation of final phase of
project implementation, first steps to
prepare final conference (probably in
09/2011)
 Step-by-step finalisation of local and
regional studies
 Preparation of strategical studies in the
fields of accessibility and cooperation of
cities and metropolitan areas
 Elaboration and discussion of conclusions
(core outputs), follow-up communication
with stakeholders
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