OPEN SESSION

Session chairs: Karel Rössler, Zdeněk Žižka

Open Session

SELECTION OF THE MOST SUITABLE ORGANISATIONAL MODEL FOR LONG TUNNELS
H. Ehrbar

Note: Invited Open Session speakers were not required to submit a full paper; therefore, the papers of some panelists are not listed here.

Presentations

PLANNING: INTRODUCTION + OVERVIEW HSR WORLDWIDE
A. Pigorini

PLANNING: TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL CONCEPT OF HIGH-SPEED RAILWAYS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
J. Merta

CONTRACTUAL ISSUES: SELECTION OF THE MOST SUITABLE ORGANISATIONAL MODEL FOR LONG TUNNELS
H. Ehrbar

CONTRACTUAL ISSUES: KEY CONTRACT FEATURES OF THE UK HIGH SPEED 2 PHASE 1 PROJECT
M. Knights

ENGINEERING DESIGN: HIGH-SPEED RAIL NETWORK TUNNELS IN POLAND – OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES
M. Mitew-Czajewska

ENGINEERING DESIGN: ITALIAN HIGH-SPEED RAIL: 1,000 KM THROUGH AND BENEATH CITIES AND MOUNTAINS — ENGINEERING THE NEXT 1,000 KM TOWARDS SOUTHERN ITALY
A. Pigorini

OPERATION: ASPECTS CONCERNING THE REAL OPERATIONAL AVAILABILITY OF LONG RAILWAY TUNNELS
G. Harer

OPERATION: ADVANCED EQUIPMENT, OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE KORALM RAILWAY TUNNEL
F. Diernhofer

ENGINEERING DESIGN: LESSONS LEARNED FROM MAJOR ALPINE RAILWAY TUNNELS — A CROSS-PROJECT PERSPECTIVE ON DESIGN, RISK, AND COLLABORATION
P. Senn

CONSTRUCTION: GEOTECHNICAL CHALLENGES DURING THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL TUNNELS — CASE STUDIES
J-M. Galera

CONSTRUCTION: INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO GEOTECHNICAL AND HYDROGEOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN LOT 1 OF THE PAJARES TUNNELS ON THE LEÓN — ASTURIAS HSR LINE
R. J. S. Perez