The slow and difficult implementation of high speed rail interoperability in Europe: the case of the Atlantic Corridor

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has started to create a railway transport network with all the national networks of it member states, in join all them event its differences and building some corridors as priority work. This article presents the current situation of the Atlantic Corridor and the difficulties in integrating the importance of rail interoperability in its development. First, our methodology is presented (section 2). Then, it attempts to define the corridor object and the way in which European governance has set up the TEN-T (section 3) by presenting the concept of interoperability as European standardisation (section 4). It analyses the current problem of implementing all the necessary steps to homogenise the various national networks in order to reach a true European Corridor (section 5). To put all these concepts into perspective, we focus on one of the nine corridors proposed in the TEN-T: the Atlantic Corridor (section 6). Through its history and development, we present the current status, the difficulties and barriers to its effective implementation and the solutions envisaged to enable the construction of the true continental network (section 7).

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