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Listed below are sites and other resources relating to tunnel safety.

Centre for Tunnel Safety
A collection of knowledge about the safety of underground infrastructure.

Channel Tunnel Safety Authority
An independent body which reports through the Channel Tunnel Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) to both the UK and French Governments.

Eurotunnel
Tunnel safety instructions for rail passengers.

FIT: Fire in Tunnels
ETN FIT is a European Thematic Network on Fire in Tunnels. FIT provides a European platform for dissemination and information of up-to-date knowledge and research on fire safety in tunnels. FIT represents 33 members from 12 European Countries. Site includes regulations, and databases of projects and members, and an Events calendar. Presentations from the Prague conference "1^st International Symposium – Safe and Reliable Tunnels” are available here.

London Underground Safety Plan
London Underground Ltd., as a publicly owned company, remains the infrastructure controller and safety authority, and operates the trains, stations and signaling systems.

Promat Tunnel Fire Protection
Commercial site with information on fire safety in tunnels, expert articles, links, etc.

Safety Improvement in Road & Rail Tunnels
Safety Improvement in Road&rail Tunnels using Advanced ICT and Knowledge Intensive DSS (SIRTAKI) is an IST Project supported by the Commission of the European Communities in the framework of the Key Action I of IST Programme.

Tunnel Safety Orders
California Division of Industrial Safety Code of Regulations for tunnel safety.

UNECE Safety in Tunnels
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Multidisciplinary Group of Experts on Safety in Tunnels (Rail) provides reports and recommendations (December 2003).

 

Tunnel Fire Studies & Reports

CSX Tunnel Fire, Baltimore, MD, 2001
U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency report.

MIT Transport Tunnel Fire Research Activities
Papers and presentations from MIT's ongoing research.

National Fire Protection Association Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges, and Other Limited Access Highways (BSR/NFPA 502-200x, revision of ANSI/NFPA 502-2001)
Covers guidance for those individuals responsible for the construction, operation, maintenance, and fire protection of limited access highways, tunnels, bridges, elevated roadways, and air right structures (available for purchase).

Numerical Simulation of the Howard Street Tunnel Fire, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2001
This report documents a study undertaken to estimate the thermal environment of the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland, following the derailment in July 2001 of a freight train and the burning of spilled tripropylene and the contents of surrounding rail cars.

Parametric study on the ventilation configuration for a section of a tunnel in the event of a fire
To evaluate the in-place emergency ventilation strategies of an existing road tunnel, CFD simulations have been carried out for a number of fire scenarios (December 2003).

Prevention and Control of Highway Tunnel Fires
This U.S. FHWA report presents methods of preventing, responding to, and controlling fires in existing and future highway tunnels.

Simulation of the Dynamics of the Fire for a Section of the L. H. –La Fontaine Tunnel
This report investigates the fire dynamics in one section of the 1.8 km long tunnel (September 2003).

Tunnel Fire: Testing to Evaluate Ventilation Systems
Article from Public Roads On-Line (Winter 1995)

UL Safety Standards
Many fire-safety related standards (not all are specific to tunnels).

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