Objective After the European fire catastrophes in the tunnels of Tauern and Mont Blanc in 1999 and in Gotthard in 2001increasing endeavours were set, to transfer transports of dangerous goods from road to rail. From this aspectnew action plans are needed for a criti cal review of the safety of tunnels.Also for rail passengers it is high time to improve their safety in case of emergencies in tunnels. The public stillremembers the catastrophe of 1999 near Salerno, when a train fire in a tunnel caused 4 deaths. In 2001, aderailment and the following fire of a freight train, which transported cars containing dangerous goods in theHowart Street Tunnel in Baltimore City, caused severe environmental damages. The impacts of suchcatastrophes become even more threatened, when they happen in urban areas, for instance in subway tunnels:1995 in Baku Metro in Aserbadjan and 1999 in Minsk Metro, tunnel fires caused 289 and 52 fatalities,respectively.The CORPTUS project will focus on the development of a concrete rail track panel sy stem, useable for rail andsubway tunnels, which, for the first time, enables trafficable access of conventional road vehicles inemergency cases. Additionally this panel system will support the installation of cable systems forcommunication and safety and the integration of pressurized water pipelines for producing high pressure waterfog for fire brigades. As a further well-target side-effect the system will cause significant noise reduction.The panel system will be designed for broad and easy application: It will be fully compatible with all nationalEuropean and even international track gauges. It will be easy to install and will be made available as anupgrading element for existing tunnels - according to the White Paper "European transport policy for 2010 : timeto decide"- as well as it can be installed in new tunnels, e.g. on high-speed rails, as the system will allow speedsup to 250 km/h. Openings in # Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecyclingsocial sciencessocial geographytransportsocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Keywords Tunnel safety emergency public safety Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2002-SME-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Cooperative - SMEs-Co-operative research contracts Coordinator RISK ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL Address Puschmanngasse 1/3 Vienna Austria See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CHLADEK & TINTERA A.S. Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nerudova 16 Litomerice See on map KOLNGLEIS GLEISBAU GMBH & COKG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Robert-pethel-strasse 71-73 Koeln See on map HARTL GMBH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Holz-steiner-strasse 6 Seyring See on map OSTERREICHISCHE BUNDESBAHNEN Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Elisabethstrasse 9 Vienna See on map COMPANIA NATIONALA CAI FERATE CFR S.A. Romania EU contribution € 0,00 Address Dinicu golescu 38 Bucharest See on map MABA PREFA SPOL S.R.O Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ctvrt j hybese 549 Veseli nad luznici See on map SWIETELSKY BAUGESELLSCHAFT M.B.H Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Edlbacherstrasse 10 Linz See on map VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE - BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Veveri 95 Brno See on map TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN - VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Karlsplatz 13 Vienna See on map WOPFINGER BAUSTOFFINDUSTRIE GMBH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Wopfing 156 Waldegg See on map ARBEIDS FORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET AS - THE WORK RESEARCH INSTITUTE Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Stensberggt 29 Oslo See on map
