Future freight: Swiss underground mega-project slowly picks up speed
A decades-long project in Switzerland to get transport trucks off the road and replace them with a vast underground network of self-driving pods is attracting media attention abroad. Exploratory work is moving ahead and the operator Cargo sous terrain insists the first series of tunnels will be ready by 2031. The story of building an underground freight system in Switzerland is one of patience and imaginative thinking. First proposed in 2013 by a public limited company of the same name, Cargo sous terrain (Underground Cargo... Читать дальше...