Important Step Towards Expansion of Suspension Railway
- TU News
The expansion of the “H-Bahn” suspension railway will play a key role in upgrading public transport and climate-friendly mobility over the longer term. That is why, back in 2021, the Ministry of Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia made over €700,000 available for planning services for two expansion projects. The transport studies examined the construction of the potential routes vis-à-vis a wide range of economic and ecological criteria, which also included passenger demand and pollution. The result was that the cost-benefit indicator spoke clearly in favor of expansion – both the extension of the route from the campus to the tram station in Barop and a connection from the Dorstfeld stop to the “Smart Rhino” site, where facilities for Fachhochschule Dortmund – University of Applied Sciences and Arts are to be built.
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