A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel

Aleksander Król; Małgorzata Król

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34069-8_16

A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel

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Abstract

Urban road tunnels become recently inherent components of road network. They facilitate urban transport and allow for arrangement of urban space. However, hereby new dangers appeared and the most serious one is the fire outbreak in an urban tunnel with congested traffic. Since a tunnel fire commonly develops quickly and in an unpredictable way the threatened people have to undertake appropriate actions to save themselves. All tunnel systems must support the self-rescue process, but in a case of high power fire the time factor is of crucial importance. The paper presents a few scenarios of tunnel fire and subsequent evacuation in a real urban tunnel. The fire development was simulated using Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) methods and the evacuation process was modeled by the PATHFINDER software.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks- 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Selected Papers
Editors	Elzbieta Macioszek, Grzegorz Sierpinski
Publisher	Springer
Pages	202-215
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783030340681
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34069-8_16
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019 - Katowice, Poland Duration: 16 Sept 2019 → 18 Sept 2019

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	1083 AISC
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Katowice
Period	16/09/19 → 18/09/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Evacuation
Fire scenarios
High power tunnel fire
Road tunnel

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
General Computer Science

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Król, A., & Król, M. (2020). A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel. In E. Macioszek, & G. Sierpinski (Eds.), Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks- 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Selected Papers (pp. 202-215). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1083 AISC). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34069-8_16

Król, Aleksander ; Król, Małgorzata. / A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel. Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks- 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Selected Papers. editor / Elzbieta Macioszek ; Grzegorz Sierpinski. Springer, 2020. pp. 202-215 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Król, A & Król, M 2020, A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel. in E Macioszek & G Sierpinski (eds), Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks- 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Selected Papers. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1083 AISC, Springer, pp. 202-215, 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Katowice, Poland, 16/09/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34069-8_16

A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel. / Król, Aleksander ; Król, Małgorzata.
Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks- 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Selected Papers. ed. / Elzbieta Macioszek; Grzegorz Sierpinski. Springer, 2020. p. 202-215 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1083 AISC).

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Król A , Król M. A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel. In Macioszek E, Sierpinski G, editors, Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks- 16th Scientific and Technical Conference on Transport Systems Theory and Practice, TSTP 2019, Selected Papers. Springer. 2020. p. 202-215. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34069-8_16

A case study of high power fire and evacuation process in an urban road tunnel

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