<p>At the time when it is completed, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, with a total length of 57 km, will be the longest railway tunnel in the world. The complete tunnel system consists of 153.3 km of access tunnels, shafts, railway tunnels, connecting ...

The Gotthard-Base Tunnel will be the worlds longest traffic tunnel, with a length of 57 km. The tunnel is part of the New Alpine Transverse in Switzerland. The dual purpose of this project is to provide a highspeed link for passengers between Germany in the ...

The Swiss Alptransit System (also called NEAT) is an important element of the new European high speed railway network . This system, which is currently under construction, consists of two railway axes - the Gotthard and Lštschberg Axes - which will pass through ...

<p>The Bodio section is the southernmost and, being 16 km in length, the longest of the five sections of the Gotthard Base Tunnel (57 km: the world&rsquo;s longest tunnel). Most of the parallel twin tunnels have been mined using two open hard rock TBMs. During ...

<p>During the excavation of the southern section of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the rock mass response to tunneling activities induced by two open, gripper TBMs described unusual magnitudes of displacements in the near-field domains of the heading without evidence ...