Report of the Technical Committee on road tunnels : XIXth world road congress of the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses PIARC, Marrakesh 22-28 September 1991.

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The Committee's report prepared for this Congress is devoted to the following three topics: (1) analysis of risk resulting from the transit of hazardous materials (prepared by the Working Group on Traffic and Geometry); (2) guidelines to set up instructions in case of fire in road tunnels (prepared by the Working Group on Operation-Maintenance-Management); (3) vehicle emission and diffusion of pollution in the vicinity of tunnel portals (prepared by the Working Group on Pollution-Ventilation). Report is published in English and French. French abstract: Ce rapport est consacre a l' examen de trois themes d' actualite : analyse des risques occasionnes par le transport des matieres dangereuses ; directives en vue d' etablir des consignes en cas d' incendie dans les tunnels routiers ; emissions des vehicules et diffusion de la pollution au voisinage des tetes de tunnel. Il enumere aussi certaines questions relatives a l' eclairage des tunnels developpees dans diverses recommandations et sur lesquelles le groupe de travail AIPCR sur l' eclairage des tunnels se propose de presenter le fruit de ses reflexions au cours d' une table ronde : l' eclairage a contre-flux ; l' eclairage des tunnels courts ; l' eclairage naturel ; l' influence des piedroits sur la visibilite des obstacles en tunnel. (Voir fiche generale 127723).

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C 25167 [electronic version only] /24 /73 /82 /93 / IRRD 127754
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Paris, Association Internationale Permanente des Congres de la Route AIPCR / Permanent International Association of Road Congresses PIARC, 1991, 83 p., 19 ref.; 19.05.B

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