The CTIF Tunnel Fires Working Group has defined their new objectives at the virtual meeting held in May
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The Tunnel Fire Working Group of the CTIF held a virtual meeting on 30th May 2024. The meeting was attended by 9 participants from 7 member countries.
It was agreed that for the restoration of this group an election of a chairman, eventually a vice-chairman and a secretary is necessary. A proposal was made by the organiser of the meeting, the Vice-President of the CTIF, Martin Nekula, who asked potential adepts for these positions to apply by sending their CVs and on the next meeting the elections will be held.
The participants of the meeting also decided that a space for sharing data, documents, information, etc. will be established. It was also agreed that another virtual meeting will be organised by the end of this year and next year the members of the working group will meet in person.
Last but not least the direction of the working group was set up as the main topics were discussed to be focused on topics such as high speed rail and regulations, current approaches to risk assessment in tunnels, new technologies in road and rail tunnels, new road and rail tunnel firefighting capabilities, technical requirements for the tunnels of the European high-speed system, transnational solutions in the fire rescue services, tunnel construction sites, and development of new solutions through EU projects.
Photo Credit:
A tunnel fire scenario with two burning trucks in the training tunnel facility of the International Fire Academy in Lungern is based on the fire event in the Gotthard Road Tunnel from October 24, 2001. Wikipedia Commons License. Date: 21 October 2019 Author: Markus Vogt.