The Balkans and South-East Europe — a network to the MMC standard.
16 corridors linking 39 cities, about 3,700 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 4,400 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 18 cross-border links and crossings. Ljubljana and Zagreb to Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul on the Eurasian Spine; the Adriatic coast; Bucharest and the Black Sea; and Thessaloniki to Athens.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC the Balkans and South-East Europe network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
HU-1 Danube: Győr – Budapest – Kelebia
HU-2 Great Plain: Budapest – Szeged
RS-1 Pan-European X: Subotica – Novi Sad – Belgrade – Niš – Dimitrovgrad
BG-1 Thracian: Sofia – Plovdiv – Svilengrad
BG-2 Danube–Thrace: Ruse – Veliko Tarnovo – Stara Zagora – Plovdiv
To initiate the programme in the Balkans and South-East Europe.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in the Balkans and South-East Europe: Make contact.
