is as good a place as any to start. It also has plenty of citations of its own if you want to dig further into any aspect.
Basically. the biggest cost of building a tunnel is excavation cost and the cross sectional area of a tunnel is the biggest factor affecting excavation cost for any given ground condition.
Secondly once you add people you have to add emergency escape tunnels and related systems which is just more tunnel that needs digging.
is as good a place as any to start. It also has plenty of citations of its own if you want to dig further into any aspect.
Basically. the biggest cost of building a tunnel is excavation cost and the cross sectional area of a tunnel is the biggest factor affecting excavation cost for any given ground condition.
Secondly once you add people you have to add emergency escape tunnels and related systems which is just more tunnel that needs digging.