New Research Project with the Involvement of the STUVA

Evaluation and further Development of Safety Concepts for Rail Tunnels (SIKET)

With the involvement of STUVA, a new project started in August 2018: “Evaluation and further development of safety concepts for rail tunnels (SIKET)”. The Federal Ministry for Education and Research is supporting the project as part of the programme “Research for civil Safety” over a period of three years (August 2018–July 2021) with a grant of 2.3 million euros.

Motivation

For each rail tunnel, there is a safety plan, which specifies measures of fire protection, evacuation and the procedure for rescue and fire fighting interventions. Until now, these plans have been produced for each tunnel...

Issue 02/2020

STUVA Research: SIKET Reaches Milestone

Evaluation and Advancement of Safety Concepts for Railway Tunnels

It is half time for the SIKET research project on evaluation and advancement of safety concepts for railway tunnels. It has been running since September 2018, and thus it was time for an interim...

Issue 04/2019

Largest Rescue Exercise in Germany with the Involvement of STUVA: ICE Fire in the Fleckberg Tunnel

The STUVA was also involved in the preparation and implementation of the exercise. They are currently working with other partners under the lead of the German association for rail transport research...

Issue 02/2020 Germany | Deutschland

Frankfurt Mainline Rail Tunnel: Feasibility Study

In September 2019, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and German Railways (DB) commissioned an in-depth feasibility study for a long-distance tunnel beneath Frankfurt am Main Central Station....

Issue 03/2019

Highly-promising Papers at the 2019 STUVA Conference

As from now the provisional programme for the two parallel lectures series on Tunnelling and Tunnel Operation/Planning can be accessed on the homepage and downloaded (www.stuva-conference.com). The...

Issue 06/2018 New Research Project with the Involvement of the STUVA

Concepts and Procedures for the Upgrading and Retrofitting of Fire Protection Equipment of underground Structures (KOINOR)

Motivation A fire in a tunnel is not only a direct threat for people. From temperatures of about 300 °C, massive damage can also be caused to the structure itself. Due to their age, numerous tunnel...