Latvia road design contract for capital Riga

A road design study is now being carried out for Latvian capital Riga. The study will evaluate solutions for connecting parts of the city and its port to the main Latvian highway network. The study will be part-funded by the EU’s TEN-T Programme, which is providing close to €1.8 million. The project will be completed by the 31st December 2015 and involves the construction of a new link to the Freeport of Riga that will carry heavy goods vehicles, reducing traffic volumes and congestion in the historic city
November 11, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
A road design study is now being carried out for Latvian capital Riga. The study will evaluate solutions for connecting parts of the city and its port to the main Latvian highway network. The study will be part-funded by the 3287 EU’s TEN-T Programme, which is providing close to €1.8 million. The project will be completed by the 31st December 2015 and involves the construction of a new link to the Freeport of Riga that will carry heavy goods vehicles, reducing traffic volumes and congestion in the historic city centre. The detailed design studies are focussing on the two last segments, 3 and 4, or roughly half of the Northern Corridor, a 30km long inner city highway intended to relieve the Latvian capital from freight traffic. This new route will improve transport efficiency in the Greater Riga region, as well as integrating the city and the Freeport with the Trans-European road network. The project was selected for EU funding with the assistance of external experts under the TEN-T Annual Call 2013, priority 'Road transport'. Its implementation will be monitored by INEA, the 2465 European Commission's Innovation and Networks Executive Agency.
Connected Construction

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Procurement open for Northland Corridor
    March 26, 2025
    The Ara Tūhono/Warkworth-to-Te Hana section in New Zealand is the most advanced part of the corridor in terms of consents, property acquisition and design.
    Read More
  • New international trade crossing linking Canada and US
    June 9, 2015
    The Detroit River is short, only 45km, and narrow in places, less than 1km. Around a quarter of the annual $658 billion Canada-US trade crosses over the river. That’s $160 billion worth of goods trucked each year between Detroit in the US state of Michigan and the Canadian city of Windsor in the province of Ontario - the Windsor-Detroit Corridor. There are several types of crossings, but the vast majority of commercial traffic must use the 2.3km Ambassador Bridge (see box). A new bridge was initially prop
    Read More
  • Central Ring Road to become one of most important projects in modern history of road-building in Russia
    December 16, 2014
    Moscow’s new ring road will provide a major economic boost and tackle congestion - Eugene Gerdner writes The Russian Government has officially started building of the Central Ring Road (CRR), one of the largest infrastructural projects in the modern history of the country. Total volume of investments in the project is estimated at more than US$7.2 billion (300 billion RUB). Building of the road should be completed by the World Cup 2018 and will be carried out as part of the existing state program ‘The de
    Read More
  • A vision of roads
    September 3, 2012
    By 2040 European roads could be built differently, and hopefully be safer, according to the EU research programme NR2C
    Read More

Highlighted Content