Cross Israel EIN TUT - ISHAY Section

Project Name
Cross Israel Highway EIN TUT - ISHAY Section
Field of Activity
Conceptual and Preliminary Design
Specialization
Highways and Expressways
Client
CROSS ISRAEL HIGHWAY
Location
Israel
Project Duration
2000-ongoing
Project Cost
US$ 180 million
Services Provided
  • Overall design of the whole project in the framework of preparing an outline plan for statutory approval.
  • Survey and mapping of the planned route path and its adjacent areas.
  • Preliminary design of roads and bridges under various alternatives.
  • Preliminary traffic design of at level intersections.
  • Preliminary design of required earth works.
  • Addressing all topics related to infrastructure systems coordination and relocation (if required).
  • Preparation of preliminary bills of quantity and costs.
  • Coordination of all participating sub-consultants: construction, landscape, drainage, geology, soil engineering, environmental impacts study.
  • Infrastructure systems preliminary coordination.
  • Contract administration.
  • Project management.
  • Project design cost control.

The Cross Israel Highway (National Route No. 6) is a major freeway planned to connect Israel's northern and southern regions.

Operated as a toll road, the freeway runs in its central section alignment north to south between the coastal plain on the west and the hills of Judea-Samaria on the east. In its northern section, the road enters the mountainous areas of Lower and Upper Galilee western region. It is also planned to bifurcate south-east of the city of Haifa into a north-east branch (enumerated otherwise), reaching the northern edge of the Jordan Valley zone  Down south it is planned to reach the southern outskirts of the city of BEER SHEBA. Its major role is to provide an improved connection between the northern and southern regions of the country without the necessity to penetrate the inner Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area and, at the same time, to enhance their access to the Greater Tel Aviv main business and residential district. In this fashion the freeway offers an alternative route east to the existing two primary longitudinal routes in Israel: Route 4 (GEHA Road) and Route 2 (the Coastal Road).
 
Cross Israel Highway General Layout

Cross Israel Highway Typical View
The Cross Israel Highway Corporation is a governmental company in charge of managing the whole project. The DERECH ERETZ Highway Company is the concessionaire for the presently operated central segment and adjacent section under construction.

The Cross Israel Highway is constructed on a staged BOT basis. Out of its final stage spanning for 300 km, its central section of about 100 km has been completed and is already in operation; it has 10 interchanges, 2 tunnels of 300m each and 130 bridges. Additional 60 km are under construction (40 km in southern sections and 20 km in northern section), and the rest is under various stages of planning and design. Parts of the planned northern and southern extension sectors are in various stages of preliminary and detailed design.

The scope of the project encompasses a preliminary design of a 20 km segment in the northern part of the highway (Route 6), south-east to the Haifa Metropolitan Area and in the vicinity of the city of YOKNEAM. It comprises of the main freeway, designed as a dual carriageway with 3 lanes in each direction, and five interchanges – ELYAKIM, YOKNEAM, TEL KASHISH, HATISHBI and ISHAY – which interconnect it with adjacent primary and secondary highways and roads.

The design of the freeway required coping with a difficult mountainous topography characterized by important landscape values, at the same time maintaining a design speed of 120 km/h. Furthermore, close integration with adjacent existing and planned facilities, localities, industries and infrastructure systems was predominant. The considered alternatives resulted with a 2.0 km long tunnel on a layout that bypasses the city of YOKNEAM.
Interchange ramps have a typical cross section of one lane; some of them will be widened to two lanes in the final stage.
The design of the entire project required addressing of complex issues, such as:
  • Existence of the CARMEL geological fault.
    Integration of a 2.0 km pair of motor vehicles tunnels, 3 lanes each.
  • Integration of adjacent oil and gas pipelines, major power transmission super high voltage lines, etc.
TEDEM was chosen as the project principal designer, including the integration of all other multidisciplinary consultants participating in the planning process. Within this framework the company has been providing the following services:
  • Overall design of the whole project in the framework of preparing an outline plan for statutory approval.
  • Survey and mapping of the planned route path and its adjacent areas.
  • Preliminary design of roads and bridges under various alternatives.
  • Preliminary traffic design of at level intersections.
  • Preliminary design of required earth works.
  • Addressing all topics related to infrastructure systems coordination and relocation (if required).
    Preparation of preliminary bills of quantity and costs.
On top of all design components performed directly by TEDEM, the company has been coordinating and guiding various sub-consultants in the fields of:
  • Tunneling.
  • Geology.
  • Drainage.
  • Landscape aspects.
  • Preparation of an environmental impacts study.

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