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General information
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Description
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General criteria
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Status of development: research & experiments |
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Time horizon for broad application: in > 10 years |
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Expected technological development: highly dynamic |
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Benefits (other than environmental): big |
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Barriers: high |
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Applicability for railway segments: medium |
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Type of traction: not applicable
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Type of transportation: passenger - high speed
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Grade of diffusion into railway markets:
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Diffusion into relevant segment of fleet: 0 % |
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Share of newly purchased stock: 0 % |
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Market potential (railways): highly uncertain |
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Environmental criteria
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Impacts on energy efficiency:
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Energy efficiency potential for single vehicle: (no data) |
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Energy efficiency potential throughout fleet: (no data) |
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Other environmental impacts: ambivalent |
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Economic criteria
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Vehicle - fix costs: high |
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(no details available) |
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Vehicle - running costs: (no data) |
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(no details available) |
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Infrastructure - fix costs: high |
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At present, there is no reliable data on the infrastructure costs of Swissmetro systems. The following estimate on excavation effort may however be interesting in this context:
According to Ernst, Geisel et al. 2000, a Swissmetro system operated at 400 km/h has a significantly lower tunnel cross section than the tunneled parts of the track of ground-level HST systems without partial vacuum. Therefore, the excavation volume per unit of tunnel length for a Swissmetro system should be 3 to 4 times lower than that for the required tunnels of ground-level HST systems. In consequence, the construction requirements for a Swissmetro system should be in the same range as that for an HST or Transrapid system requiring 30 per cent tunnelling over a given distance. This should be even more so if additional construction work (bridges, embankments) is required for a ground-level HST system.
It has be taken into consideration that the Swissmetro infrastructure could not be integrated into existing railways system but would rather be additional to existing high-speed railway infrastructure. |
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Infrastructure - running costs: (no data) |
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(no details available) |
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Scale effects: (no data) |
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(no details available) |
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Amortisation: (no data) |
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(no details available) |
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Application outside railway sector (this technology is railway specific)
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Overall rating
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Overall potential: interesting |
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Time horizon: long-term |