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TRANS-EUROPEAN ROAD NETWORK
ROAD TUNNEL INVENTORY
At present, the density of tunnels in Italy and Austria exceeds by far the density of tunnels in the European Union as a whole.
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New TEN |
New TEN | Total TEN | |||
| Existing | Tunnels | Existing | Tunnels | Tunnels | |
| TEN Tunnels | > 1000m | TEN Tunnels | 500-1000m | > 500m | |
| Member State | > 1000m | 2002-2010 | 500-1000m | 2002-2010 | in 2010 |
| Austria | 33 | 8 | 19 | 4 | 64 |
| Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Germany | 19 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 55 |
| Denmark | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Spain | 16 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 25 |
| Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| France | 18 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 35 |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| Greece | 3 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 45 |
| Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Italy | 83 | 13 | 144 | 6 | 246 |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| Portugal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Sweden | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| EU total | 182 | 64 | 216 | 50 | 512 |
Table: TEN road tunnel inventory (source EC- DG for Energy & Transport)
In addition, Norway is the only EEA country with tunnels over 500 m length in the major road network, with 130 tunnels of a total length of 200 km.
Only three candidate countries have tunnels longer than 500 m. In the TINA network, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia have 4, 5 and 1 tunnels respectively in this category, with a total length of 15 km.