A pre-arranged path is reserved capacity in the IMs planning system/tool. Also protected against major changes triggered due to other path requests during the allocation phase performed by the Corridor One-Stop-Shop. In this sense pre-arranged paths are dedicated for rail freight only.

Railway undertakings, international groupings of railway undertakings or other persons or legal entities, such as shippers, freight forwarders and combined transport operators with a public-service or commercial interest in procuring infrastructure capacity (according to Article 15 of EU Regulation 913/2010 and Article 3.19 of EU Directive 2012/34) are entitled to apply for PaPs.

Non RU applicants have to appoint an executing railway undertaking at least 30 days before running. The Corridor OSS will check the legitimation of the applicant before/during the allocation phase to be sure that the applicant is allowed to request capacity.

Terms and Conditions for requesting PaPs are described in the Corridor Information Document Book IV which can be found on the Corridor website