In the course of the preliminary planning of the new Gelnhausen–Fulda railway line which is part of the railway project Hanau–Würzburg/Fulda, two route options with tunnels, bridges, cuts and embankments are to be investigated and assessed as efficiently as possible with regard to potential geotechnical risk areas. Due to the geological and hydrogeological conditions within the north‐eastern Hessian Buntsandsteingebirge, several groundwater levels, landslides in tunnel portal areas and karstification structures are to be expected on the two route options, each of which is approx. 45 km long. In order to obtain detailed and, above all, large‐scale knowledge of geotechnical hazards of each route = in the preliminary stage of the exploration programme, geophysical surface investigations are a cost‐ and time‐optimized exploration method in addition to standard drilling. These findings as well as existing subsurface information are combined by means of BIM, so that risk areas can be identified at an early stage of the project and taken into account when selecting the most affordable route.
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