PIARC XVII WORLD ROAD CONGRESS, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 8-15 1983. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON ROAD TUNNELS

The technical committee members studied the following aspects of road tunnels: selection criteria for the underground solution (three levels of evaluation of the selection criteria, use of selection criteria to derive a solution, common factors in tunnel solutions, rural tunnel considerations, urban tunnel considerations, tunnels under major navigable waterways); pollution -ventilation (determination of fresh air requirements, ventilation, ); lighting (adaptation luminance and lighting in the entrance zone, lighting of short tunnels); traffic and geometry (comparison between theoretical capacity and observed flow in road tunnels, speed flow relation, transverse position measurements, accidents and incidents in tunnels, lateral clearances); safety (safety equipment, fire in tunnels); operating costs and methods (operating costs, execution of maintenance works in relation to traffic safety problems). (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Permanent International Association of Road Congr

  2 Boulevard de la Tour Maubourg
  F-75007 Paris,   France 
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 168 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Conferences; Costs; Crashes; Dark adaptation; Design; Driver information systems; Fires; Geometric design; Highway capacity; Layout; Lighting systems; Luminance; Measurement; Near midair crashes; Operating costs; Operations; Rivers; Rural areas; Safety; Sensors; Speed; Street lighting; Surveillance; Television; Traffic flow; Tunnels; Underwater construction; Underwater structures; Urban areas; Ventilation systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Selecting
• Old TRIS Terms: Tunnel lighting
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 643: Capacity (road, footway); 1394: Catalytic converter; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 2086: Dark adaptation; 9011: Design (overall design); 1624: Fire; 1088: Inland waterway; 2885: Layout; 545: Lighting (street); 525: Luminance; 6136: Measurement; 1642: Near miss; 221: Operating costs; 328: Rural area; 1665: Safety; 6120: Sensor; 5408: Speed; 9101: Surveillance; 6949: Television; 671: Traffic flow; 3374: Tunnel; 313: Urban area; 3392: Ventilation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Bridges and other structures; Design; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I25: Design of Tunnels; I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390259
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM