GZ Principal Dr. Vojtech Gall will be presenting the paper SCMAGLEV – Innovative Mass Transportation in the Northeast Corridor (NEC) at the 2021 Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) in Las Vegas, June 13 – 16. The paper provides an update on the Northeast Corridor Superconducting Maglev Project (SCMAGLEV) as presented in Gall et al. (2020) and discusses the economic and environmental benefits, preferred alignment alternative, preliminary staging and launching of the TBMs for construction, and preliminary station design. For more information about the project, please visit the Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail page here. To learn more about GZ’s involvement in the project, please visit our project page here. To find out more about the RETC 2021, please visit the conference website here.

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