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Herausforderung Instandhaltung Koralmtunnel im Spannungsfeld betrieblicher Verfügbarkeit und Anlagenmehrung
Author(s) -
Diernhofer Florian,
Schneider Klaus,
Steiner Helmut
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
geomechanics and tunnelling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1865-7389
pISSN - 1865-7362
DOI - 10.1002/geot.201900052
Subject(s) - telematics , railway line , engineering , scheduling (production processes) , electronics , transport engineering , operations research , business , computer science , forensic engineering , telecommunications , operations management , electrical engineering
The Koralm Tunnel (length 33 km) crossing the eastern Alps is part of the Koralmbahn line and one of the longest rail tunnels in the world. The installation of railway equipment in the tunnel is due to start soon and it is particularly important to now make current decisions considerung future developments and demands. In particular the conflicting goals of the scheduling horizon of the construction permit process nearly 20 years ago, the 150‐year design horizon and the rapid development of electronics, data processing and telematics have to be considered. Experience of operation of long rail tunnels confirms that despite all logistical efforts, the maintenance of railway equipment leads to a great expense of time and finance and also to restrictions of the line availability for operations.