Research on Measures of the Disaster Prevention and Rescue in Super-Long Railway Tunnels

Author

Zhang Nian ; Tan Zhong-sheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Civil Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Disasters that may occur in the super-long railway tunnel were summarily described and a study focused on the measure of the disaster prevention and rescue when the train gets fire inside the tunnel was conducted. First, the characteristic of the railway tunnel fire was introduced, and the measures of the disaster prevention and rescue to relief the disaster when the tunnel fire occurs were discussed secondly in this paper. Finally, it summarized the scheme of the disaster prevention and rescue to relief the disaster when the fire occurred in the super-long railway tunnel, and the basis for optimizing the design and the construction was provided. It may have a vital practical significance to the perfection of fire emergency rescue and safe evacuation plan in super-long railway tunnels in China.

Keywords

construction; disasters; planning; railways; safety; tunnels; China; construction; disaster prevention; disaster rescue; fire emergency rescue; railway tunnel fire; safe evacuation plan; super-long railway tunnels; Fires; Materials; Personnel; Rail transportation; Security; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5998378

Filename

5998378