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- Our today’s topic is another European mega railway project - the construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel, the future longest railway tunnel in the world, that will connect the Austrian and Italian railway networks.
The Brenner Pass is a mountain pass through the Alps which forms the border between Italy and Austria. It lies 1370 m above sea level and it is the lowest Alpine pass and can be crossed all year round. For thousands of years, the Brenner Pass has been the most important trade and traffic route connecting Northern and Southern Europe and its importance has grown as trade has grown.
The present-day Brenner railway line was built between 1860 and 1867 and the line crosses the Alpine pass with a slope of up to 26 ‰. A hundred years later, in 1974, the highway was built and, since then, ten million tons of goods were freighted over the Brenner every year.
In 2019, 223,5 million tons of goods were transported across the Alps, and the number of trucks reached a record-high level of 11.5 million. Approximately 22% of all trucks, i.e. 2.5 million vehicles, crossed over the Brenner Pass with over 30% of all transalpine freight traffic.
This led swiftly to capacity bottlenecks and the decision to improve the Brenner railway connection. As most of you know, the EU policy is environmentally driven and thereby promotes ecological rail infrastructure and sustainable development.
In that sense, the construction of a railway line between Austria and Italy with a tunnel through the Brenner Pass has become the number one project on the priority list.
Do you think we managed to present the main aspects of the Brenner Base Tunnel project? Tell us in the comments below!
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