Subsea road tunnels in the Faroe Islands

• Published in: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering
• Main Authors: Samuelsen, Teitur, Grøv, Eivind
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Thomas Telford (ICE Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Faroe Islands
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2482386; https://doi.org/10.1680/jcien.17.00032

The Faroe Islands north of Scotland has a disproportionally large number of road tunnels. In addition to 44 km of existing tunnels, two further undersea tunnels totalling 22 km will be completed by 2023. A further 30 km undersea crossing is planned, providing nearly 2 m of tunnel for each of the 50 000 inhabitants. This paper describes the country’s recent, current and proposed subsea tunnelling projects. When eventually completed they will reduce journey times between the 18 major islands from up to a day to no more than a few hours’ drive. publishedVersion © Published with permission by the ICE under the CC-BY 4.0 license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)