But Crossrail is not just about tunneling. The $21 bn project is also a hotbed of innovations. The entire network was designed in a 3-D virtual environment so that once the railway is up and running, a version of this 3-D model will help managers monitor, from mobile devices, countless electrical components and systems across the network.
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Robert Mair, the head of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Cambridge, in England, and a consultant to the project has said that the “Crossrail really is a digital railway.”
