Activities of SUDOP PRAHA a.s. abroad
2002 - 2008
In addition to the above-mentioned long-term projects, the company conducted over the past several years a number of technical and feasibility studies concerning the development or renovation of roads and railway lines in Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Albania, Kirghizstan, Serbia, Monte Negro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovakia and Ghana, made an expert review of the Lvov - Krakovets freeway project in Ukraine and designed a tramway overhead catenary system in Hong Kong for the company Mott Mac Donald.
SUDOP PRAHA a.s. also participated in different projects for the European Commission within 5th, 6th and 7th framework programme (SUMMA, HEATCO, MOTOS).
1990 - 2002
Modernization of Railway Section Trnava - Nove Mesto n. V.
Since 1998, SUDOP PRAHA a.s. has been working together with Reming Consult a.s. (another member of the SUDOP GROUP) on the contract Modernisation of the Railway Line Trnava - Nové Mesto nad Váhom for Slovak Railways.
Stage 1: Design of civil engineering structures, bridges, track substructure and superstructure, overhead catenary system, power distribution, rail earthing. Railway subsection: Trnava (excluded)-Piestany (excluded), 3 stations and 2 stops. Subsection length: 26 km
Stage 2: Design of civil engineering structures, bridges, passages, track substructure and superstructure, overhead catenary system, power distribution, rail earthing. Railway subsection: Piestany (included)-Nove Mesto n.V. (included), 3 stations, 2 stops
Tunnel: Double track, in limestone rock driven railway tunnel accompanied by an escape route. Length: 1.8 km
Feasibility Study of Railway Line Tripoli - Jounie
Feasibility study gives a review and position of different modes of transport in the country and identifies demands for railway traffic, both passenger and freight ones. A considerable attention is paid to the transport situation in the Near East as a whole, because the future of the railway traffic development in Lebanon, as it is evaluated and justified in the study, is in an interconnection with neighbouring railway networks. The concept of solution has its general part containing the main principles as well as specific solution of a given part of system. In this case it is the railway line Jounie - Tripoli proposed to be partly double track and partly as one track line with some local relocations.
The feasibility study calculates running times, describes a rolling stock, shows roughly a calculation of investment costs (estimation of USD 300 - 325 mio), contains SWOT analysis and provides recommendations for the future. The proposed route forms a part of Beirut area suburban transport solution.
Development of the Kazakhstan Railway Transport - Technical Assistance for the Government of Republic of Kazakhstan
Activities in below described studies were carried out within the framework of the Foreign Aid Programme of the Government of the Czech Republic.
The main goal was to outline the railway passenger traffic development in order to increase its competitiveness with regard to air and road transport. The substantial part of work done within Stage 1 was the proposal concerning modernization of existing railway line Almaty - Astana, in particular to reach such a speed, which would resulted in a considerable decrease of running time. In annexes to the study there were prepared various plans, local maps, longitudinal profiles, etc.
In the Stage 2 there was continued in the previous work focused on modernization of 1,343 km long railway line Almaty - Astana solved in two variants: up to speed to 140 km/h and 200 km/h. Both variants were evaluated from various points of view supplemented by relevant financial analysis. Furthermore was prepared a study of opportunities for a development of freight transport (especially the combined railway-road one) with suggestions of places suitable for future logistic centres - close to business areas concerned.
In the Stage 3 the Feasibility study for the Remote control system on the whole network of Kazakhstan railways was prepared. The FS focused on replacement of the existing Kazakhstan Railway interlocking system by a new one. Two schemes of modernization have been proposed. The first solved particularly modernization of the dispatcher system at a maximum utilization of existing equipment. The second scheme solves simultaneously the modernization of both the line and stations railway interlocking system remote control. The integral part of the study was the financial assessment of each solution.
From 1992 to 1996, SUDOP PRAHA a.s. worked together with the German companies EVDR (later renamed DE - Consult A.G.) and GWJ A.G. on modernisation of railway lines in the unified Germany: Frankfurt am Oder - Rosen Garten, railway ring around Berlin and an extension of the Dresden - Berlin line to central Berlin. The cooperation was gradually attenuated, mainly because of the necessity to deploy maximum design capacities to complete the design preparation stage for the modernisation of the First Corridor in the Czech Republic.
1968 - 1989
The most important foreign project on the preparation of which SUDOP PRAHA a.s. participated, still under the name National Transport Design Institute, was the Trans-Saharan Road project. It involved a 2,500 km long new road running from Algiers to Mali and Niger, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Guinea Bay. Recognisance missions, land surveys, studies and design works took from 1968 to 1978 to complete.
Between 1968 and 1980, the company designed a number of railway electrification projects in Hungary (Karzeg - Debrecen, Nagymoros - Szob, Budapest - Ferencvarosz - Sorokary, Debrecen - Záhony).