Projects Tunnel safety
Overview
a. In the last decade Rijkswaterstaat spent increasing effort in improving the safety of motorway tunnels in the Netherlands. Acccidents in tunnels, and particularly fires, can have dramatic consequences and can prove extremely costly in terms of human life, increased congestion, pollution and repair costs.
Functional safety is the term that is used for safety measures that rely on the correct functioning of dedicated safety-critical HW/SW-systems. International standards such as IEC-61508 are available to make sure that these safety-critical systems can be demonstrated to have a certain safety level.
Extra information Extra information about the project
Projects:
Leidsche Rijn Landtunnel A2 for Rijkswaterstaat: During the development of the road land tunnel for Leidsche Rijn A2I have been involved in a project to determine how the internal standard for functional safety IEC-61508 should be applied, to demonstrate the safety of the tunnel-technical installation.
Responsible for:
Giving advice how to apply international standard IEC-61508 for RAMS specification, testing and demonstrating safety of the tunnel-technical installation.