"Announcing the latest development, the EU said it would triple the transport budget between 2014-2020 to €26 billion to realise its ambitions of a better connected Europe. The nine corridors are designed to organise the current “patchwork” of roads, railways, flight paths and waterways around the continent. Although much of the infrastructure that makes up the new routes already exists, investment is needed to complete the ‘missing links’ and relieve bottlenecks across the network." (Quoted from article)