The design documentation of the Moscow-Kazan high-speed rail line section from the station Zheleznodorozhnaya 23 km to the station Vladimir VSM was transferred to the Federal Autonomous Institution “Chief Administration of State Expert Review” (FAI “Glavgosexpertiza of Russia”).
The design documentation provides for works associated with the construction of the high-speed rail line including construction site development. The length of the projected section of the HSR is 172 km which will pass through the Moscow and Vladimir Regions. The project implies construction of 4 stations in the towns located on the section: Noginsk, Orekhhovo-Zuevo, Petushki and Vladimir.
According to the project, more than 13 km of new roads will be built and 13 km of existing roads will be enhanced in order to arrange the traffic during the construction period and for the further operation of the line. The projected HSR track crosses numerous highways but it does not cross the existing transport network on one level.
It is also planned to build 26 large and 10 medium bridges and 12 flyovers, 3 railway and 8 highway overpasses. Moreover, the project involves the construction of 40 industrial buildings, installation of noise buffer sheets with a total length of more than 180 km.
Previously, JSC “High-Speed Rail Lines” received positive findings of the internal expertise of the design documentation performed by JSC RZD, and positive results of the public technology and cost audit for the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod section provided by Ernst & Young Valuation and Advisory Services LLC.
The technical customer of the project is JSC RZD and the project management is carried out by JSC High-Speed Rail Lines. The consortium of the companies Mosgiprotrans, Nizhegorodmetroproject, China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd. acts as the general design organization. More than 50 organizations including the leading design companies of the Russian Federation were involved in designing the line.
Each part of the design documentation contains innovative solutions. In the project a special emphasis is put on ballastless track construction, the use of which will significantly increase cost efficiency and improve performance characteristics of the main line.
Ballastless track is a monolithic concrete structure containing smart sensors which monitor the state of the structure and track during the whole operation period. The use of this type of a track on the section from the station Zheleznodorozhnaya to the station Vladimir VSM will be almost 82%.
Furthermore, other systems of the designed HSR are innovative as well. This is the World's first contact network designed for train speed of up to 400 km/h. The project provides for the use of unified constructions of artificial structures (split beam systems and solid reinforced concrete beam systems) and road base design. The system of safety operation is fully automated and eliminates the influence of "human factor" and, most importantly, is almost completely designed on the basis of the Russian software and hardware.
Source: http://www.hsrail.ru/
