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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