About ISTSS

It all started after SP decided to present the test results from the Runehamar tunnel on a symposium in Borås in November 2003. The name of that symposium was the International Symposium on Catastrophic Tunnel Fires. The international interest for this event forced us to change venues to accommodate the unexpected number of delegates and the symposium itself was very successful with well over 200 delegates. The results presented at this symposium were so interesting and the need for continued dialogue so pressing that we were urged to arrange a new symposium, at a new location  where we knew that there would be a great interest in the results. Due to SP’s longstanding collaboration with the National Infrastructure Institute’s Centre for Infrastructure Expertise, NI2-CIE, in USA, the venue for the new symposium was chosen in the US in November 2004 in close collaboration with NI2. This became the 1st International Symposium on Safety and Security (ISTSS), thereby broadening the scope from fire issues to safety and security. Since then we have been in Madrid 2006 and Stockholm 2008.