Vehicle Fires and Fire Safety in Tunnels

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• Creators:
  Shipp, Martin
• Corporate Contributors:
  Centre for Fire Safety in Transport
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Fire Fighting Fire Prevention Fire Safety Provisions Railroad Tunnels Tunnels Underground Structures Vehicle Fires
• Resource Type:
  Other
• Geographical Coverage:
  United Kingdom
• Corporate Publisher:
  United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe
• Abstract:
  Tunnels present what is arguably the most hazardous environment, from the point of view of fire safety, that members of the public ever experience. The fire safety design of tunnels is carried out by tunnel engineers on the basis of a potential fire introduced into the tunnel as a train, a road vehicle or a load on board one of these. But there appears to be very little dialogue between the designers and operators of tunnels and the designers and operators of these various types of vehicle. Indeed, vehicle designers are seldom seen at conferences, such as this, with tunnel designers. This paper discusses the various fire safety measures that are currently applied in road vehicles and trains, and discusses some possible ways of reducing the risk from fires in vehicles.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1a508ecf6e9d11dcf82fcf0c609fe4fd79ad8237feb9ead3c392d28025f94419
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16045/dot_16045_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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