Abstract:Tunnel fire safety plays a key role in the railway operations and many procedural and\ud
technological improvements have been realized in order to prevent and mitigate the fire risk. The fire\ud
prevention and protection procedures can be approached through two main different strategies: the deterministic/\ud
prescriptive based approach and the performance-based approach. In the study presented in this\ud
paper, the possibility of application of the water curtain-based wayside fire protection system, as one of… Show more
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