doi:10.3850/978-981-08-6396-8_P221

ABSTRACT

High-speed rail is emerging in Europe as an increasingly popular and efficient means of transport. The first highspeed rail lines in Europe built in the 1980s and 1990s, improved travel times on intra-national corridors. Since then, several countries have built extensive high-speed networks, and there are now several cross-border high-speed rail links. In Germany a huge number of high-speed railway links is completed and is in operation. To strengthen the network as a whole a number of lines is still under design and under construction. The speeds vary, from 250 km/h to 280 km/h. Later lines are passed for service speeds of 300 km/h. The third generation of the Inter-City-Express (ICE) trains has a service speed of 330 km/h and has reached speeds up to 360 km/h. This presentation looks at the technical challenges faced when designing the tunnels of the high-speed rail lines from Cologne to Frankfurt and from Stuttgart to Ulm as well as inner-city rail links like the City Tunnel Leipzig.

Keywords: High-speed railway, Tunnels, Compensation grouting.

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