The study on sustainable transport connections between Europe and Central Asia, conducted by the EBRD and led and funded by the EU, had two objectives:
- to identify the most sustainable transport connections between the five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and the EU’s extended Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), following a corridor assessment based on strict sustainability criteria, where environmental, social, economic and fiscal sustainability and political viability are taken into account; and
- to propose key actions for the development of the identified connections in terms of both enabling environment (soft connectivity) and physical infrastructure (hard connectivity), including their prioritisation based on a coherent and sustainable transport corridor development approach.
Source : EBRD