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Exploring the effect of national policies on the safety level of tunnels that belong to the trans-European road network: a comparative analysis

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dc.contributor.authorNtzeremes, P.
dc.contributor.authorKirytopoulos, K.
dc.contributor.authorBenekos, I.
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe trans-European road network (TERN) was defined to improve EUs road network guarantee users a high and uniform level of safety. TERNs tunnels must be designed to serve these purposes. To this respect, the EU introduced the Directive 2004/54/EC. The Directive imposed minimum infrastructure and equipment requirements for all TERNs tunnels attributing high importance to risk assessment method. This paper illustrates that the variety of the methods adopted by each member state do not guarantee the same level of safety for all TERNs tunnels. Presenting the general principles of EU methods, two methods, which share a high degree of similarity, are used to study the same fire accident at the same tunnel. The differences occurred in the estimated level of safety raises skepticism, as the tunnel has different safety level depending on the method and national policies used. The outcome illustrates the need to improve policy formulation on this matter.
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2018; 14(1):40-58
dc.identifier.doi10.1504/IJCIS.2018.10011738
dc.identifier.issn1475-3219
dc.identifier.issn1741-8038
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/131428
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInderscience Publishers
dc.rightsCopyright 2018 Inderscience Publishers Access Condition Notes: Accepted Manuscript available from 1st January 2019.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1504/ijcis.2018.10011738
dc.subjectroad network
dc.subjecttransportation
dc.subjectroad tunnel
dc.subjectDirective 54/2004/EC
dc.subjectrisk assessment
dc.subjectinfrastructure safety
dc.titleExploring the effect of national policies on the safety level of tunnels that belong to the trans-European road network: a comparative analysis
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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