Monday, August 31, 2015

China wants to build the Swedish high-speed tracks – New Technology

       

SVT has seen the contents of a secret offer from the company China Railway Construction. The final cost is where the 145 billion instead of 170 billion. High Speed ​​Line will according to the Chinese proposal built on bridges that go five meters above the ground. It is the most common way of building high-speed lines in China and other parts of Asia.

Railway expert Per Corshammar has long campaigned for Sweden to learn from China, which soon expanded its when the speed of the train.

-From having been 50 years since China is now ten years before when it comes to rail. They have bought into technology and improved it. Now they run away from us, ‘he said in a previous interview in New Technology.

Benefits of bridges include:

  • Cheaper construction techniques by using precast concrete.
  • It takes less valuable land.
  • Less material consumption.
  • Snow blowing simpler of the tracks and the risk of wildlife collisions are reduced.

Karin Svensson Smith (MP), Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, says SVT that in a week traveling to China and Japan to learn more about the construction method by bridges.

– Half the Committee go to Japan and half to China to study the high-speed and efficient movement of trains, and there will be a lot of studies to build the bridge, especially in China, says Karin Svensson Smith to SVT.

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