Fire Safe Design - Rail Tunnels

The listing and compilation of regulations and guidelines for fire safe design in rail tunnels is now available on-line ! The chapter with the detailed comparison will be available in spring 2004.

This document has the status of 'FIT Public Working Document' and is still a draft document. The document is available for the FIT Corresponding members for consultation, input and comment. To become part of the FIT Corresponding membership and access this document, please register as FIT Corresponding members)

Fire Safe Design Rail Tunnels (draft B)

• Listing of collected guidelines
  
• Comprehensive list of safety measures
  
• Matrix of guidelines contents
  
• Detailed comparison (not yet available)
  
• Appendix 1: Tables of contents of national guidelines translated into English
  
• Appendix 2: Tables of contents of tother reference documents translated into English
  

For comments - Please adresss to FIT@bbri.be (Comment on guidelines rail)

Short summary

As a first step for the compilation of guidelines for fire safe design, the relevant guidelines are collected and listed. This includes regulations, guidelines, standards, and to some degree current best practices.

Guidelines include relevant documents form European and international organisations and European countries, supplemented when relevant with guidelines from other important rail tunnel countries, e.g. USA.

The comprehensive list of safety measures and the matrix identifies the application of the essential safety measures for comparison. The chapter 'detailed comparison' will further detail the different safety measures.

Appendix 1 and 2 details the content of these national guidelines and reference documents.

The status of this document is a 'FIT Public Working Document'.

For any comment, please contact FIT@bbri.be.

Rapporteur: Giorgio Micolitti, RFI

Preliminary draft by Paul Scott, ARUP