The metre-gauge Zentralbahn (zb) is being provided with a more efficient infrastructure with several tunnels in Lucerne in the form of a twin-track development and lowering the station facility. In...
The twin-track and 1,490 m long Fleckberg Tunnel located between the Silberberg (7,391 m) and Messenger (1,051 m) tunnels is part of the 107 km long new rail link between Ebensfeld and Leipzig...
The 8,314 m twin-track long Bleßberg Tunnel is the longest on the new Ebensfeld-Erfurt rail route – German Unity Rail Project No. 8 (VDE 8.1) and once commissioned will be the third longest...
Work started on the exploratory tunnel (3,685 m) for producing the Krammer Tunnel (3.6 km) to bypass the B 23 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on April 29, 2011. The results of the exploration will serve to...
Phase III, the main construction phase of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT), currently the European Union’s /EU’s) most important transport infrastructural project, was started on April 18, 2011 in...
The New Schlüchtern Tunnel is nearly 4 k m long and possesses 9 m internal diameter. It was driven using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) at a distance of 50 to 90 m from the existing tunnel [1-4]. As...
The new roughly 27 km long Semmering Base Tunnel can now be built for Austria’s supreme railway authority confirmed its environmental compatibility on May 30, exactly a year after the relevant...
The 6.4 km long Tauern Tunnel (1971/1975) on the A10 motorway was provided with a second bore (2006/2010) following the accident in 1999 while the existing bore was redeveloped at the same time. In...
1 Introduction
1.1 The St. Petersburg metro
St. Petersburg was established by Czar Peter the Great in 1703 to secure strategically important access to the Baltic Sea for Russia. The city was built on...
At present, the government of the city and island state of Singapore is massively expanding its transportation network to be able to do justice to constantly rising traffic volume on the rail and...
