1st International Symposium
Safe and Reliable Tunnels. Innovative European Achievements
4-6 February 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

The symposium was a joint initiative of three major European projects, known by their acronyms DARTS, FIT and UPTUN, running under the auspices of the European Commission (DG Research, GROWTH Programme) and dealt with the three transport modes (road, rail and metro). All aspects relating to designing, building, maintaining and upgrading of tunnels and tunnel structures, including human behaviour and hazards, were addressed in an integrated way. The symposium offered latest research results and state of the art overviews with high quality presentations from research, consultancy, industry and governmental organisations. Three panel debates were enriched with the active contributions of the symposium participants. A special poster session gave an overview of all European research projects on safety and tunnels, illustrating again the importance and scale of the research activities being developed at present.

The proceedings are included in the DARTS CD Rom.

The proceedings comprise following papers:

DARTS, FIT and UPTUN in a glance Tunnels: challenges of today and tomorrow,
Haack, A.

European research projects and policy for safe and efficient tunnels,
Katalagarianakis, G.

Hazards and the consequences for tunnel structures and human life,
Vrouwenvelder, A.C.W.M and A.H.M. Krom

Directional sound evacuation from smoke-filled tunnels,
Boer, L.C. and J. van Wijngaarden

Preventive operational measures for road tunnels,
Eilersen, U.V.

Fire response management,
Rhodes, N.

Hazards in tunnels. Structural integrity,
Høj, N.P.

Present-day design fire scenarios and comparison with test results and real fires: structures & equipment,
Both, C. and Haack A.

Recent achievements regarding measuring of time-heat and time-temperature development in tunnels,
Ingason H. and Lönnermark A.

Recent achievements in modelling the transport of smoke and toxic gases in tunnel fires,
Kumar, S.

Guidelines for fire safe design: synthesis and current harmonisation processes,
Lacroix, D.

Comparison of fire safety problems for the various transport modes in tunnels,
Brousse, B.

Guidelines for fire safe design,
Høj, N.P.

Compared safety features for rail tunnels,
Zuber, P.

Compared fire safety features for metro tunnels,
Gabay, D.

FIT databases: structured and consultable experience,
Dessel J. van and Martin Y.

Integrated tunnel design from cradle to grave. Enhancing structural performance and owner confidence,
Rostam S. and Høj N.P.

Deterioration modelling. Model verification through in-situ tests Great Belt Link Tunnel (Denmark),
Edvardsen C.K.

Assessment and service life updating of existing Tunnels,
Schiessl, P., Gehlen Ch. and Kapteina G.

Environmental aspects in tunnel design,
Geldermalsen L.A. van

Key elements in future tunnel designs: hazards as a specific design issue,
Manen S.E. van

Example from practical application of the integrated design approach,
Gehlen Ch. and Kapteina G.

The proceedings and slide presentations of the symposium are also published on the FIT website,  www.etnfit.net.