Objective
The Common Transport Policy is one of the original ingredients of the first European treaty (Treaty of Rome). Tunnels are important in the existing and envisaged transport system. However, the safety of tunnels was put in question after recent fires, which resulted in fatalities, casualties and economic damage. The fires also discouraged tunnel usage in some cases. This adversely affects a sustainable socioeconomic development. The UPTUN project aims at solving these problems.
The UPTUN project aims at:
1) development and promotion of innovative, sustainable and low-cost measures to limit the probability and consequences of fires in existing tunnels and;
2) development and promotion of an integrated evaluating and upgrading procedure, incorporating the innovative measures, for existing tunnels to allow owners, stakeholders, designers and emergency teams to evaluate and upgrade the human and structural safety level.
Funding Scheme
CSC - Cost-sharing contracts
Coordinator
2600 AA Delft
Netherlands
Participants (37)
27100 Pavia
28003 Madrid
38100 Trento
WD25 9XX Watford
69674 Bron
2800 AK Gouda
NW1 4RP London
57001 Thermi
162 00 Praha 6
2800 Lyngby
24121 Bergamo
9000 Aalborg
45307 Essen
14200 Praha 4
220 02 Lund
51063 Koeln
5020 Salzburg
60550 Verneuil En Halatte
1190 Wien
1049-001 Lisboa
40129 Bologna
BS3 4NH Bristol
90127 Palermo
NG19 9AQ Mansfield
3430 AR Nieuwegein
7465 Trondheim
0033 Oslo
35127 Padova
00186 Roma
501 15 Boraas
50827 Koeln
90-924 Lodz
8501 Heule
636 00 Brno
2000 Maribor
2040 Vilnius
M40 2WL Salford,manchester