2004 International Tunnel Safety & Security Symposium Agenda, Presentations, Speaker Biographies

International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

z Keynote Speakers

9:00 a.m. Post 9/11 – The Challenge

James Burns, New York State Fire Administrator

9:25 a.m. The New European Union Directive on Road Tunnel Safety

Dr. Bernd Thamm, Director, EU Commission, Belgium

9:50 a.m. AUA & Security: Practical Tunnel Safety and Security Issues

Henry Russell, Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Chairman, AUA Underground Security Committee

10:10 a.m. Break

z Case Studies

10:40 a.m. Tunnel Fires in Europe – What Have We Learned?

Dr. Haukur Ingason, Swedish National Testing & Research Institute

11:05 a.m. Howard Street Tunnel Fire, Baltimore MD, 2001

Dr. Kevin McGrattan, National Institute of Standards and Technology

11:30 a.m. Lunch & Exhibits

z Research Projects & Experimental Results

1:00 p.m. Memorial Tunnel Tests

Sergiu F. Luchian, PE, Parsons Brinckerhoff

1:25 p.m. Investigation of Emergency Ventilation Strategies in Road Tunnels

Dr. Ahmed Kashef, PE., National Research Council of Canada

1:50 p.m. Large Scale Fire Tests - Unique Experimental Results

Anders Lönnermark, Swedish National Testing & Research Institute

2:15 p.m. Proposed Changes for Fixed Guideway Transit & Passenger Railway System Standards

William D. Kennedy, Parsons Brinckerhoff

2:40 p.m. Break

z Security Threat & Assessment

3:00 p.m. Assessing the Threat of Tunnel Explosions: Current Capabilities

Keith S. Bradley, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

3:25 p.m. Security Design in Metros

Gary Gee, Chief, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Department

3:50 p.m. The PROTECT Early Warning Crisis Management System for Subway Chem/Bio Defense

Dr. David F. Brown, Argonne National Laboratory

z Closing Keynote Speaker

4:15 p.m. ITA & Security: The Underground as a Safe Haven

Dr. Harvey Parker, President, International Tunnel Association

4:40 p.m. Close

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

z Human Behavior & Preparedness

9:00 a.m. Human Response

Dr. Marieke H. Martens, M.Sc., TNO Human Factors

9:25 a.m. Nemiga Subway Station Crowd Rush Incident

Paul Wertheimer, Crowd Management Strategies

z Incident Development & Prevention

9:50 a.m. Tunnel Vulnerability Engineering Assessments

Daniel C. Wood, US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

10:15 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. The Nexus of Threat & Risk with Tunnel Investment

Michael Goode, Civil Engineering Research Foundation

11:10 a.m. Computer Modeling of Passenger Transit Vehicles

Matthew Davy, PE, Schirmer Engineering

11:25 a.m. NFPA 502 - Standard for Road Tunnels

James Lake, Senior Fire Protection Specialist, National Fire Protection Association

11:50 a.m. What Can the Service Do About Catastrophic Tunnel Fires?

Jay Fleming, Boston Fire Department

12:10 p.m. Lunch & Exhibits

z Passive & Active Protection

1:30 p.m. Security Technology Integration

Dr. Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire

1:55 p.m. Passive Fire Protection

René van den Bosch, Promat

2:10 p.m Active Fire Protection

Stefan Kratzmeir, Research Engineer, Fogtec

2:25 p.m. Active Fire Protection

Victor Gameiro, Managing Director, Marrioff, Inc.

2:40 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Active Fire Protection

David Leblanc, Tyco

3:15 p.m. Active Fire Protection Applications in Australia

Arnold Dix, Adj. Professor of Engineering,
Queensland University of Technology

3:30 p.m. Panel Discussion, Moderated by Donald P. Bliss

Director, NI2 Center for Infrastructure Expertise

z 4:00 p.m. Close

Addition: Passive Fire Protection - Sufficient or Complimentary to Active Systems?

Alfred Haack, STUVA

Addition: An Integrated Model for Robust, Safe, and Secure Systems

Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire