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Abstract: Construction of infrastructure starts well before the actual works begin: detailed studies, investigations, surveys, designs and plans must be carried out and completed beforehand. Field and ground conditions can prove to be different from expected once the works begin. After excavating more than 2000m of the Maddalena Exploratory Tunnel, part of the Cross-Border Section of the New Turin-Lyon...
Abstract: The New Lyon-Turin Line (NLTL) is an essential component of the“Mediterranean Corridor”, one of the nine European Union TEN-T network corridors, the future “European metropolitan railway” that will promote the movement of people and goods by rail, an ecological mode of transport. The cross-border Section extends from Susa-Bussoleno (Italy) toSaint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France) ; it is the frst...
Abstract: Like for the other big railway tunnels under the Alps, the water drainage system of the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel provides 2 recovery systems: - one for the mountain waters considered clean; - one for the platform waters, whose potential hazardous liquids - from a possible leak on a wagon or lorry on a rolling highway train - require treatment before being returned to the river. This paper will...