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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Safety in the Underground Construction and Operation of the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain Underground Engineering for Sustainable Urban Development Other Related Titles NCHRP Report 525 Volume 12: Making Transportation Tunnels Safe and Secure (2007) National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager Transportation Research Board. "Additional Sources." NCHRP Report 525 Volume 12: Making Transportation Tunnels Safe and Secure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007. Please select a format: Page 166   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 166 Front Matter (R1-R15) Chapter 1 - Introduction (1-1) 1.4 Assumptions (2-3) 2.1 Major Hazards and Threats (4-5) 2.2 Damage Potential (6-6) 2.3.1 Hazard Scenarios in Relation to Assets (7-10) 2.3.2 Threat Scenarios in Relation to Assets (11-14) 2.4 Conclusions (15-15) 3.2.1 Moscow Subway Suicide Bombing (16-17) 3.2.2 Jungangno (Chungang-Ro) Subway Station Arson Fire (18-20) 3.2.3 St. Gotthard Tunnel Fire (21-21) 3.2.4 Howard Street CSX Tunnel Fire (22-25) 3.2.5 Kitzsteinhorn Tunnel Cable Car Fire (26-27) 3.2.6 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire (28-31) 3.2.7 Channel Tunnel Fire (32-33) 3.2.8 Subway Sarin Gas Attack (34-36) 3.2.9 Chicago Freight Tunnel Flood (37-38) 3.2.10 London Underground (the Tube) King's Cross Station Fire (39-41) 3.2.11 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Transbay Tunnel Fire (42-43) 3.2.12 Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) Evacuation under the World Trade Center (44-45) 3.4.2 Lessons Observed (46-49) 3.4.3 Role of MEC Systems in Case Study Incidents (50-50) 4.2 Types of Transportation Tunnels (51-51) 4.3.1 Immersed Tube Tunnels (52-54) 4.3.3 Bored or Mined Tunnels (55-58) 4.4.2 Modes of Tunnel Failure (59-64) 4.4.3 Effects of Other Extreme Events (65-67) 4.4.4 Critical Factors in Vulnerability Assessment of Transportation Tunnels (68-68) 4.4.5 Damage Potential Rating of Tunnels (69-69) 4.5.1 Key Safety Functions (70-71) 4.5.2 Categorization of Systems (72-78) 4.6 Chapter Summary (79-99) 5.2.2 System Hazard and Threat Directories (100-116) 5.3.2 Information Contained in Countermeasure Guides (117-120) 5.4 Countermeasure Descriptions (121-121) 5.4.1 Recommended Minimum Measures (122-131) 5.4.2 Recommended Measures for an Elevated Threat Level (132-135) 5.4.3 Recommended Permanent Enhancements (136-148) 5.5 Conclusion (149-151) 6.2.1 People (152-152) 6.2.3 Engineering and Technological Systems and Controls (153-153) 6.3 Security System Integration (154-155) 6.5 Conclusions (156-156) 7.2 Report Tables on a CD (157-158) 7.10 Owner Orientation Workshops (159-159) 7.14.1 Tunnel Structural Elements (160-160) 7.17 Interactive Electronic Version of this Report (161-161) 7.24 Structural Blast Damage Potential Analyses (162-162) 7.26 Issues Identified by Case Studies (163-163) References Cited in the Report (164-165) Additional Sources (166-166) List of Abbreviations (167-168) Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (169-169)

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