Editing Slovenia (section)

==== Railways ====
{{main|Slovenian Railways}}

The existing Slovenian railways are out-of-date and have difficulty competing with the motorway network; partially also as a result of dispersed population settlement.<ref name="ARSO420">{{cite web |url=http://kazalci.arso.gov.si/?data=indicator&ind_id=420#comment |title=Vlaganja v prometno infrastrukturo: Komentar |language=sl |publisher=Slovenian Environment Agency |date=18 November 2011 |author=Plevnik, Aljaž |author2=Polanec, Vesna}}</ref> Due to this fact and the projected increase in traffic through the port of [[Koper]], which is primarily by train, a second rail on the Koper-Divača route is in early stages of starting construction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.drugitir.si/|title=Za razvoj Slovenije {{!}} Drugi tir|website=www.drugitir.si|access-date=24 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303000005/http://www.drugitir.si/|archive-date=3 March 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> With a lack of financial assets, maintenance and modernisation of the Slovenian railway network have been neglected.<ref name="UNIMB2011-04">{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.losamedchem.eu/web/attachments/article/20/SWOT%20KOPER%20+%20UM.pdf |chapter=Executive Summary |title=Analysis of the infrastructure network in Slovenia and report on SWOT analysis |publisher=Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor. Port of Koper |date=April 2011 |access-date=8 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510062631/http://www.losamedchem.eu/web/attachments/article/20/SWOT%20KOPER%20+%20UM.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Due to the out-of-date infrastructure, the share of the railway freight transport has been in decline in Slovenia.<ref name="ARS416">{{cite web |url=http://kazalci.arso.gov.si/?data=indicator&ind_id=416#comment |title= Obseg in sestava blagovnega prevoza in prometa: Komentar|publisher=Slovenian Environment Agency |date=18 November 2011 |author=Plevnik, Aljaž |author2=Polanec, Vesna}}</ref> The railway passenger transport has been recovering after a large drop in the 1990s.<ref name=ARS416/> The Pan-European railway corridors V and X, and several other major European rail lines intersect in Slovenia.<ref name="UNIMB2011-04"/>