Knut Olav Halvorsen Chairman of COINCO e.V. Presentation of COINCO South on annual assembly, Berlin, 15 December, 2016

Hyperloop between Malmø and Berlin in 20 minutes

Almedalen, July 2016: Stockholm to Helsinki in 30 minutes!

Freight on rail in Northern Europe – need for more capacity!

Tomorrow

One truck pr 15 seconds between Sweden and Europe.

The capacity on the Øresund Bridge is reached.

Source: KTH Järnvägsgruppen

Scandinavia needs more fixed links to Germany

An optimal system would imply a direct link to Germany

A new fixed link between Sweden and Germany would bundle the transportation towards the use of railroad.

12 Johan Brantmark Citytunneln Malmö

Tunnel with TBM is too expensive – minimum 10 bill. Euro

Hyperloop: Transportation system in tubes based on Maglev and reduced air pressure (near vacum)

Transportation of goods and…

passangers.

Summer of 2016: First real test of concept in USA

History back to 1799. Early stages tested in New York in the 1860 ies.

The air postal tube system in Berlin was in operation to the midle of the 1980 ies. New system implemented 2017!

Critique of hyperloop; temperature fluctuations and safety. Answer: Place the systems on the seabottom and only freight first.

Norwegian offshore industry has layed more than 10.000 km of tube systems on the sea bottom.

Others have put gas tube systems on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Sassnitz was used as industrial plant. Not a ”virgin area”.

Effective technology is developed.

The welding is done on board.

It exist significant industrial capacity and competance. Technological developent is mainly a scaling issue.

Balticconnector. Costs 250 mill Euro. 150 km (80 km offshore).

Is it possible to build a fixed link based on large tubes on the seabottom between Sweden and Germany? Yes!

•  Scandinavia and Germany is overflown by trucks. A large and increasing environmental problem.

•  The Øresund bridge has reached its capacity. Fehmarn belt will not solve this problem.

•  It exist a large industrial complex around the skill of laying tubes on sea bottoms.

•  The Baltic Sea has – and will be used again – be used for laying down tubes on the sea bottom.

•  A fixed link in the way of a tube on the sea bottom will be signifcinatly cheaper than existing methods of tunnels and bridges.

COINCO e.V starts working with Snøhetta and Norwegian offshore industry.

Artificial Seabed

Bjørnafjorden

PHASE 1: 2025-2030 FREIGHT TRANSPORT

PHASE 2: 2030-2035 FREIGHT – AND PASSANGERS

GODS- OG PASSASERTRANSPORT PHASE 3: 2035-2040 FREIGHT – AND PASSANGERS

PHASE 4: 2040-2045 MALMØ – BERLIN IN 20 MINUTES!

FASE 4: 2040-2045 Malmø – Berlin 20 min Stockholm – Berlin 3 timer

KOBLES MOT EKS. TOGNETTVERK

PHASE 4: 2040-2045 Malmø – Berlin 20 minutes Stockholm – Berlin 3 hours Connected to the new HSR Sweden.

Heading Could look like a metro station: Makkah Metro

Workshop with Snøhetta and offshore industry in January 2017.

Facts: The Øresund bridge costed 3 bill. euro (1990). Finished in 2000. Surplus in 2015: ca 100 mill. euro.

•  Hypothese 1: A tube link between Trelleborg og Sassnitz will be significantly cheaper to construct and will generate much larger profits (since also the trafic will be much larger).

•  Hypothese 2: Can in principle be 100% privatly financed. •  Hypothese 3: A tube link will reduce the numbers of trucks between

Scandinavia and Germany with 50 %. Large positive environmental impact. •  Hypothese 4: A tube link will give a strong positive regional impuls to the

regional development in Skåne and North East Germany.

Some hypotheses:

- How much will a connection between Trelleborg og Sassnitz cost? -  What extra value will such a connection give the Swedish HSR project?

- What experiances is done with hyperloop in the next years? - What consortium will take the first risk to develop the concept? -  Do Sweden and Germany want such a solution?

-  Who will take the political leadership in these countries?

What are the next steps?