Tunnels in the Netherlands: Underground Transport ConnectionsKees Stiksma |
Common terms and phrases
Amsterdam aquaduct ballast concrete ballast tanks bank Barendrecht Benelux Tunnel Beverwijk Botlek bridge built bulkheads cables caissons canal Coen Tunnel connection consists construction pit Contractors covered cross section Den Haag depth Dordtsche Kil drainage Drecht Tunnel dredged emergency enclosed ensure equipment floated floor foundation Gouwe gradient Haag hard shoulder Heinenoord Hoeksche Waard Hollandsch immersed tunnel immersing the sections immersion method immersion operation installations Kil Tunnel lanes layer length lighting Maas Tunnel Method of construction metro motorway Nieuwe Maas Noordzeekanaal open approaches open pit Oude Maas pipes placed polder pontoons position pressure prestressed pumping railway tunnel reinforced concrete Rijkswaterstaat river road surface roof Rotterdam route sand Schiphol seal segments sheet-pile walls shipping channel Spijkenisse stage station steel tension piles tion traffic tunnels transport trench trunk road tubes tunnel sections underground ventilation building vertical Vlake Tunnel watertight Waterways Zeeburger Zuid Holland Zwijndrecht