Rail traffic represents an essential component of the transport infrastructure. In built-up areas it is immensely important for tackling high transport volumes. Measures designed to reduce its...
Dortmund’s former municipal director Klaus Fehlemann has just celebrated his 75th birthday, and the STUVA wishes to extend hearty congratulations. From 2003 to 2007, the trained architect...
Dipl.-Ing. Nina Wassmann (Fig. 1) presented the best lecture at the 2015 STUVA Conference to clinch the prize for young engineers at the “Youth Forum”. With Amberg Engineering at the time of the...
Incidences of violence and damage to property at stops and in vehicles can lead to passengers feeling insecure or deciding to opt out of public transportation altogether. This applies in particular to...
The Imberg Tunnel is located on the Swabian Alb plateau, which is crossed by the new Wendlingen–Ulm rail link. It is 499 m long, which means it is numbered among the shortest for the Stuttgart–Ulm rail project. The ICE will only need roughly 7 seconds to pass through the tunnel. Topographical marginal conditions define the length of the 220 m central construction section, which is driven by conventional means. Cut-and-cover sections extend the tunnel at both sides. On the south side this is defined by the planned or rebuilt road network; at the north side a highly frequented game pass that crosses the track has to be catered for.
Motivation
The need to modernise and expand the existing line networks of the telecommunications and energy supply companies is growing in keeping with the advance in infrastructural networking of...
The 2017 STUVA Conference, the International Forum for Tunnels and Infrastructure, will be held from December 6 to 8, 2017 at the Messe Stuttgart. The event is one of the most important gatherings for...
Findings designed to improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists when using railway crossings are to emerge from a research project (FE-No. 82.0613/2014). The project was commissioned by the...
A symposium took place in the Southeast Asian metropolis of Singapore on 10 November 2016, organised by the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Society Singapore (TUCSS) who had invited eight...
The first Forum on Tunnelling (Forum Tunnelbau) took place on 18 November 2016 at the RWTH Aachen University. The occasion for the event was the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel – a mammoth...
