After serious accidents, which happened in tunnels in the last few years, most countries have established 'Task Forces' in order to evaluate the safety of existing tunnels and to establish new safety measures. Based on two actual examples, the new safety measures are presented in this paper on a pra
Optimization of Road Tunnel Safety
✍ Scribed by Milan Holický; Dimitris Diamantidis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 364 KB
- Volume
- 103
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0005-9900
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