Regional Strategic Transport Network

Northern Ireland's Strategic Transport Network

Key Strategic Transport Corridors and Link Corridors.

The Regional Strategic Transport Network (RSTN) incorporates 5% of the road network, which carries around 37% of total vehicle travel, and all of the railway system

The road element of the RSTN comprises:

• 5 Key Transport Corridors (KTCs);
• 4 Link Corridors;
• the Belfast Metropolitan Transport Corridors; and
• the remainder of the trunk road network.

The KTCs are the top tier of the Region's long distance routes connecting the cities and main towns to the major regional gateways and the Belfast Metropolitan Area (BMA) and they are:

• the Eastern Seaboard Corridor - road and rail links between BMA and Dublin and northward to Larne; improving access to Warrenpoint and Rosslare;
• the North Western Corridor - links the BMA to Londonderry, strengthening access to Belfast International Airport;
• the Northern Corridor - links the BMA to Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and Londonderry by road and rail;
• the Western Corridor - links west of Lough Neagh between Donegal, Londonderry, Strabane, Omagh, Monaghan and Dublin; and
• the South Western Corridor - links the BMA to Craigavon, the Fermanagh Lakelands, the Sperrins and to important cross-border routes.