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International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security |
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