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title: Lot 2 of Lyon-Turin rail tunnel link awarded to consortium comprising SYSTRA and three other European engineering firms
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# Lot 2 of Lyon-Turin rail tunnel link awarded to consortium comprising SYSTRA and three other European engineering firms

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The S2IP consortium has won Lot 2 for the civil engineering project management
of the access tunnels between Saint-Martin-La-Porte and La Praz in the French
Alps. The French section of the works represents 80% of the entire tunnel. The
S2IP consortium will be responsible for project managing two single-track
parallel tunnels, which are 22.1km in length.

The consortium comprises Setec, SYSTRA, Italferr and Pini Swiss Engineers.
SYSTRA’s Italian subsidiary SYSTRA SOTECNI will also be involved in the
delivery.

## A project to meet the transport needs of the Alpine region

When it opens in 2030, the 57.5km-long Lyon-Turin tunnel will link the
international stations of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Suse. It will greatly
improve the connection between France and Italy, as well as across Europe. It
will reduce the journey time between Lyon and Turin from nearly 4 hours (3 hours
and 43 minutes) to under 2 hours (1 hour and 47 minutes). Around 4.5 million
passengers per year will use this route, which will bring substantial
environmental benefits because more than a million of them will use this rail
link rather than road or air.

## SYSTRA active on TELT since 2002

SYSTRA’s involvement in TELT dates back to 2002. Over the years SYSTRA and
SYSTRA SOTECNI have delivered a number of studies and preparatory assignments,
including project management of the Maddalena exploratory tunnel.

SYSTRA holds three additional major contracts associated with the scheme:
project management assistance for traffic and socio-economic studies; land
acquisition in France managed by SYSTRA’s property development subsidiary SYSTRA
Foncier; and reviewing pre-project and final studies.

_Image: TELT._