Schengen railway border of European community and connection points

Lacul Tei Bdv., no. 122 – 124, District 2, Bucharest, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania

^* Corresponding author: flaviu.nica@utcb.ro

Abstract

The paper aims to study and present the actual railway connections along the West and South Romanian border, being also the East European Community border and Eastern European Community Schengen border, with neighbours Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria. In the introduction of the paper, are presented the two corridors designed in Strategy for Mobility and Transport of European Community: Orient/East – Mediterranean Corridor and Rhine – Danube Corridor, that are passing thru Romania. The second part of the paper is allocated to the punctual railway connections that existed and exists along the western and southern border that are active, can be activated and used as gates and passing points for freight and passengers trains using a high capacity of transport on a green transport infrastructure that is more and more used for all medium long and long routes. Finally, the campaign that Romanian Railway Administrator (CFR S.A) is developing on border points is taken into account.