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Gotthard Base Tunnel The world's longest railway tu nnel
AlpTransit Gotthard AG
Dr. Renzo Simoni
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Final breakthrough
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Transalpine goods traffic
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Journey times Zurich − Lugano / Basel −Lugano
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FinöV (Financing Public Transport) decision 1998
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A flat railway route through the Alps
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Key features of the only flat railway route through the Alps
• Newly constructed twin-track route
• Mixed operation
• Maximum speed passenger trains: 250 km/h
• Maximum speed goods trains: 160 km/h
• 50 – 80 passenger trains per day
• 220 – 260 goods trains per day
• Loaded vehicles: max. height 4.2 m
• Max. Gradient: ≤ 12.5 ‰
• Min. Radius: ≥ 5,000 metres
• Useful life: 100 years
• Max. temperature: 40° C
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Challenge – Implementation of organisation
• Direct management, simple control
• Transparency through directparliamentary control
• Clear allocation ofresponsibilities, bestgovernance
• Efficiency thanks to leanorganisation (short paths, simple decision processes)
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Interest partners
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Allocation of Public Transport Financial Fund (Finö V)
Heavy road vehicletax (64%)
Oil tax(23%)
Value added tax(VAT) (13%)
Fund for thefinancing ofpublic transport
NRLA (45%)New Rail Link through the Alps
Rail 2000 Phase 1and ZEB (44%)ZEB: Future Development of theRailway Infrastructure
HSR (4%)European High-Speed Rail Network
Noise mitigation (7%)
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Swiss Government Decision
c. Gotthard route € 11 000
Total € 16 000
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Development of final cost and risk potential
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Challenge Planning and Procedures
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Project supervision
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Safety concept in the Gotthard Base Tunnel
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Challenge Geology I
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Challenge Geology II
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Sedrun
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Bodio: Portal South
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Installation progress Railway technology, March 1st, 2013
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Bodio: Non-ballasted track, overhead conductor, GSM -R cable
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Vision
• Opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnelwith scheduled train services: 2016
• Opening of the Ceneri Base Tunnelwith scheduled train services: 2019