Improving safety in Greek road tunnels

Kirytopoulos, K; Rentizelas, A; Tatsiopoulos, I; Kazaras, K

dc.contributor.author	Kirytopoulos, K	en
dc.contributor.author	Rentizelas, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Tatsiopoulos, I	en
dc.contributor.author	Kazaras, K	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:52:42Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:52:42Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en
dc.identifier.issn	17433541	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/36001
dc.subject	Dangerous goods	en
dc.subject	Greece	en
dc.subject	Quantitative analysis	en
dc.subject	Risk analysis	en
dc.subject	Road tunnel	en
dc.subject	Safety	en
dc.subject.other	European Commission	en
dc.subject.other	quantitative analysis	en
dc.subject.other	risk assessment	en
dc.subject.other	road	en
dc.subject.other	transportation policy	en
dc.subject.other	transportation safety	en
dc.subject.other	tunnel	en
dc.subject.other	Greece	en
dc.title	Improving safety in Greek road tunnels	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.2495/SW100511	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/SW100511	en
heal.publicationDate	2010	en
heal.abstract	Tunnels are regarded as one of the most important infrastructures in Europe, as they may improve the connection of regions and aid economic development through facilitating the transportation of people and goods. In order to achieve a minimum acceptable level of safety, the EC issued Directive 2004/54/EC, which describes specific safety measures that have to be taken for all road tunnels in the trans-European road network. In parallel, there are several qualitative or quantitative methods for measuring road tunnel safety, while the method that seems to be the most accepted by administrative authorities for quantitative risk analysis is the OECD/PIARC QRA Model (QRAM), which has been developed by INERIS, WS-Atkins and the Institute for Risk Research. QRAM is based on engineering software that aids quantitatively assessment of the societal risk due to transporting goods and dangerous goods with Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) through road tunnels. The aim of this paper is to expose the effectiveness of the measures imposed by the EC in Greek road tunnels. A typical road tunnel, as designed and implemented after Directive 2004/54/EC, is compared to the same tunnel as if it was developed before the Directive was put into action. The comparison is made on the basis of the societal risk existing in the two cases. The conclusion of the paper, based on the outcome of the risk analysis with the QRAM method, is that the safety of Greek Tunnels is significantly improved due to the implementation of the measures imposed by the EC Directive 2004/54/EC. © 2010 WIT Press.	en
heal.journalName	WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2495/SW100511	en
dc.identifier.volume	142	en
dc.identifier.spage	557	en
dc.identifier.epage	566	en