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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Keynote Speakers
Post 9/11 – The Challenge
James Burns, New York State Fire Administrator
The New European Union Directive on Road Tunnel Safety
Dr. Bernd Thamm, Director, EU Commission, Belgium
AUA & Security: Practical Tunnel Safety and Security Issues
Henry Russell, Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Chairman, AUA Underground Security Committee
Case Studies
Tunnel Fires in Europe – What Have We Learned?
Dr. Haukur Ingason, Swedish National Testing & Research Institute
Howard Street Tunnel Fire, Baltimore MD, 2001
Dr. Kevin McGrattan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Research Projects & Experimental Results
Memorial Tunnel Tests
Sergiu F. Luchian, PE, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Investigation of Emergency Ventilation Strategies in Road Tunnels
Dr. Ahmed Kashef, PE., National Research Council of Canada
Large Scale Fire Tests - Unique Experimental Results
Anders Lönnermark, Swedish National Testing & Research Institute
Proposed Changes for Fixed Guideway Transit & Passenger Railway System Standards
William D. Kennedy, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Security Threat & Assessment
Assessing the Threat of Tunnel Explosions: Current Capabilities
Keith S. Bradley, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Security Design in Metros
Gary Gee, Chief, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Department
The PROTECT Early Warning Crisis Management System for Subway Chem/Bio Defense
Dr. David F. Brown, Argonne National Laboratory
Closing Keynote Speaker
ITA & Security: The Underground as a Safe Haven
Dr. Harvey Parker, President, International Tunnel Association
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Human Behavior & Preparedness
Human Response
Dr. Marieke H. Martens, M.Sc., TNO Human Factors
Nemiga Subway Station Crowd Rush Incident
Paul Wertheimer, Crowd Management Strategies
Incident Development & Prevention
Tunnel Vulnerability Engineering Assessments
Daniel C. Wood, US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration
The Nexus of Threat & Risk with Tunnel Investment
Michael Goode, Civil Engineering Research Foundation
Computer Modeling of Passenger Transit Vehicles
Matthew Davy, PE, Schirmer Engineering
NFPA 502 - Standard for Road Tunnels
James Lake, Senior Fire Protection Specialist, National Fire Protection Association
What Can the Service Do About Catastrophic Tunnel Fires?
Jay Fleming, Boston Fire Department
Passive & Active Protection
Security Technology Integration
Dr. Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire
Passive Fire Protection
René van den Bosch, Promat
Active Fire Protection
Stefan Kratzmeir, Research Engineer, Fogtec
Active Fire Protection
Victor Gameiro, Managing Director, Marrioff, Inc.
Active Fire Protection
David Leblanc, Tyco
Active Fire Protection Applications in Australia
Arnold Dix, Adj. Professor of Engineering,
Queensland University of Technology
Panel Discussion, Moderated by Donald P. Bliss
Director, NI2 Center for Infrastructure Expertise
Addition:
Passive Fire Protection - Sufficient or Complimentary to Active Systems?
Alfred Haack, STUVA
An Integrated Model for Robust, Safe, and Secure Systems
Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire