Risk and Resilience Analysis of Road Tunnels
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2024) | Viewed by 1764
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistical analysis of traffic accidents; computational fluid dynamics modeling; people evacuation process; road tunnel resilience; risk analysis; concrete spalling; road pavement combustion; traffic simulation; electric vehicle safety
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Interests: risk analysis; computational fluid dynamics modeling; people evacuation process; road tunnel resilience; hydrogen safety; traffic simulation
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Interests: transportation engineering; risk analysis; methods and models for statistical analysis of road accidents; computational fluid dynamics modeling of fire in tunnels; people evacuation process; tunnel resilience; risks due to the transport of hydrogen and electric vehicles; concrete spalling; road pavement combustion; traffic simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To meet the continuous growth in traffic demand, the number of road tunnels worldwide has increased day by day. The design of new road tunnels or the adaptation of existing ones to meet the minimum safety requirements is often the only solution to overcoming certain obstacles. However, this has raised many concerns among practitioners in the transport sector, particularly in relation to fire safety. In fact, several studies and tragic real events have shown that the occurrence of fires in tunnels can lead to significant economic losses and deaths due to their enclosed nature. Consequently, it is necessary to provide more in-depth scientific knowledge on fire safety in road tunnels. Risk analysis might be a useful tool for this purpose. Moreover, the occurrence of a fire in a road tunnel could cause its partial or complete closure, with consequences that might also extend along the nearby transportation network. The resilience of road tunnels, or more generally of the infrastructure containing them, is thus a crucial issue of economic and social interest. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on risk and resilience analysis in the event of fires in road tunnels.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Risk analysis;
- Safety issues and relative countermeasures;
- Statistical analysis;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling;
- People evacuation;
- Resilience;
- Traffic simulation modeling;
- Combustion of road pavement;
- Concrete spalling;
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Isidoro Russo
Dr. Gianluca Genovese
Prof. Dr. Ciro Caliendo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road tunnel fire
- risk analysis
- user safety
- statistical analysis
- computational fluid dynamics
- people evacuation
- resilience
- traffic simulation
- road pavements
- concrete spalling
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