A 100 mile Toll Transportation Tunnel, built in a high traffic area (300k AADT) should cost around $1.5 billion and should yield a net present value based on toll income greater than $5 billion. It should additionally yield a $20 billion net profit to the auto manufacturer that builds vehicles allowed (by the Transportation Tunnel operator) to enter the toll tunnel. In addition to the expected $3.5 billion net profit, the toll tunnel operator could reasonably charge automakers a license fee for allowing their vehicles to use the tunnel. This license will enable the auto manufacturer to sell vehicles into the area surrounding the toll tunnel.

Another type of location that toll tunnels will be an excellent investment will be in heavily trafficked and very cold regions. This is because it doesn’t snow or freeze in tunnels. Year round the temperature inside a tunnel 20 feet below ground in most of the world is above freezing temperature. A tunnel built to serve people entering and leaving Chicago for example will enable 120MPH travel during a blizzard above ground. Snow and ice create an additional impetus for people to want to use toll tunnels for their commute or for the transport of freight long distances. Trucks don’t like snow or ice either!

A bi directional, 50 mile long toll tunnel between San Francisco and San Jose would cost less than $1 billion to construct. The number of commuting vehicles on I-101 and I-280 is over 300k daily. Assuming a 15% adoption, the annual toll revenue would be $141 million. This gives a net present value of $3.5 billion. The net profit for an auto manufacturer in this area would likely be over $20 billion as around 1 million electric vehicles would be sold to local citizens. Any toll tunnel operator would reasonably charge the auto manufacturer a royalty for allowing their vehicles into the tunnel.

A tunnel from Los Angeles to San Francisco following I-101 near the coast will be about 420 miles long (676KM). At 120MPH (193KM) the journey would take approximately 3.5 hours non-stop. Because vehicles in Transportation Tunnels enjoy a 90MPH tail wind, current Tesla vehicles with a 300 mile range should manage the journey without a charging stop. High speed 120MPH travel with a 90MPH tailwind means the vehicles will only have a 30MPH headwind and will essentially be hypermiling, which increases the vehicle range.

On cross country tunnels like this one, toll revenue shifts from primarily vehicles to significantly trucks. High speed trucks will pay a higher toll rate per mile. But they too will enjoy the 90MPH tailwind that reduces the energy demand of the vehicle.

Unlike California’s doomed “High Speed Rail” project, which gobbled up valuable surface land, Transportation Tunnels are constructed entirely below ground. This means residents won’t object to farmland being taken by eminent domain. And if one adds up the real time taken to use a train, including driving to a train station, parking a car, walking to the train deck, boarding, riding, exiting, renting a car or taxi, then it becomes clear that you will spend about the same 3.5 hours total transit time. With tunnels, however, when you arrive at your destination, you have your own car instead of needing to find one.

Another lucrative route is from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. This 240 mile tunnel beginning in Rancho Cucamonga could whisk people from the Los Angeles area into the Las Vegas area in just 2.0 hours. What’s comical is that this is the route proposed for the $12 billion Brightline West train project. Tickets are estimated to cost $400. They say the train will travel at 200MPH and the ride will take about 2 hours. Well, that’s an average speed of 120MPH, not 200. So a car in a tunnel will be just as fast.

Building a high speed Transportation tunnel would cost perhaps $5 billion. But the cost to take the journey would be $48 at 20 cents per mile. If a Transportation Tunnel existed along this route, who would pay $400 to ride a train that takes the same amount of time to get to Las Vegas?

Norway’s 700 mile, $47 Billion Coastal Highway Project

Norway intends to build a highway for road vehicles along the coast and up to Trondheim. The idea is to build a road near the west coast and to build bridges and underwater tubes where it needs to cross fjords, thus eliminating ferry crossings. The 21 hour journey is expected to be reduced to 11 hours. Much of the road would be surface highways and thus snowy and ice covered during the winter months, slowing traffic considerably.

One could consider a different solution where a lower cost, faster tunnel is built up the center of the country with off shoot roads to the coastal towns. A 500 mile tunnel running from Kristiansand to Trondheim running through Oslo would cost $7.5 billion and the travel time would be just 4 hours and 10 minutes. These numbers are significantly lower than the proposed $47 billion and 11 hour travel time. Of course, this is a different route and joining towns on the west coast has advantages. That said, Norway could afford to build this sort of tunnel and extend it all the way to the northern most tip of the country and enable its citizens in the far north to quickly journey to the urban centers.

Norway plans to end the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2025. This is the most aggressive date for the transition to electric vehicles of any country in the world. It may seem impossible, considered from the perspective of a US citizen where just 7.6% of new car sales were electric vehicles in 2023. But in Norway, 2023 sales of electric vehicles made up 82% of the market. What this means is that Norway is perfectly positioned to transition to the more modern Transportation Tunnels.

Transportation Tunnels cost less to build and to operate and they require users to have electric vehicles. Given that in another year every new car sold is going to be electric, Transportation Tunnels will afford Norwegians a superior method of travel around the country. And tunnels with blowers will reduce the energy required of vehicles compared to other systems being built.

These are just a few exemplary projects for consideration. There are thousands of places around the world that would benefit from Transportation Tunnels. We have patents to protect you from competition if you’re the first to build one of these tunnels in an area where you know they’re needed. We will be pleased to help you analyze and estimate the profitability of building a project where you believe one should be built.

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