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Home > EC issues tunnel risk assessment tender

EC issues tunnel risk assessment tender

Tris Thomas

Written by Tris Thomas on 03/05/2011 in News

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The European Commission has called for tenders for the comparative assessments of road tunnel risk analysis methodologies in Spain, Norway and Switzerland to allow completion of it’s trans-European risk study of the continent’s road tunnels. The deadline for tender submissions is 16th June, 2011.

Directive 2004/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the trans-European road network specifies in Article 13(2) that: “Member States shall ensure that, at national level, a detailed and well-defined methodology, corresponding to the best available practices, is used and shall inform the Commission of the methodology applied; the Commission shall make this information available in electronic form to other Member States.” Furthermore, the Directive stipulates that if necessary, the Commission should make proposals for the adoption of a common harmonized risk analysis methodology. The World Road Association (PIARC) has already carried out work in this area (Risk analysis for road tunnels, by PIARC Technical Committee C3.3, document 2008R02, ISBN: 2-84060- 202-4, freely available at: http://publications.piarc.org/en/search/detail.htm?publication=2232&solo). Furthermore, PIARC is in the process of completing a second report on road tunnel risk analysis. The work of PIARC should be completed by a study focusing on risk analysis methods used in Spain, Norway and Switzerland for their road tunnels. The study must be carried out in such a way that in conjunction with the PIARC work it provides a coherent basis for further work by the Commission services. The study should cover at least, but not limited to, the following issues: • Terminology and definitions used in the national methods • Basic methodological approach • The general range and limits of the analysis methodology; and in particular • Suitability of the methodology for the different tasks and objectives enumerated in Annex I to Directive 2004/54/EC • The results the methodology can provide, including quantitative and qualitave ones • Carrying out and evaluating a comparable case study

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  1. Michael Schmid says:
    05/05/2011 at 7:50 am

    Hello Thomas

    do you know, where i can find the tender documents?

    thx
    Michael

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