A feasibility study for a Transrapid rail link from Düsseldorf to Dortmund is to be presented to the German transport ministry. There would be a 4.03 km tunnel for an estimated cost of €121 million. The stretch would cost €3.6 billion altogether, with an expected annual profit of over €60 million. Transrapid is a high-speed electromagnetic levitation train built by Siemens and ThyssenKrupp. Visit www.bmvbw.de and www.transrapid.de 05/02.
