Traffic handling capacity as well as construction and maintenance costs of long vehicular tunnel are compared with those of railway tunnel arranged for transporting automobiles by two-level railway car trains; results of this traffic time and cost analysis indicate that latter solution is more advantageous for tunnels length of which exceeds 15 km.


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    Title :

    Automobile tunnels -- Car driving or "rolling highway"


    Additional title:

    Autotunnel -- Selbstfahren oder rollende Strasse


    Contributors:
    Grob, H. (author)

    Published in:

    Schweizerische Bauzeitung ; 85 , n 17 ; p 297-303


    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    German


    Keywords :


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