SECUREMETRO - Inherently SECURE blast resistant and fire safe METRO vehicles
Overview
Background & policy context:
Increased safety and security of metro vehicles from terrorist attacks by explosives and fire bombs through materials choices and design, thereby increasing resilience and reducing the impact of attacks on passengers, staff, infrastructure and property.
Objectives:
The goal of SECUREMETRO was to develop validated materials selection and design strategies for building metro vehicles with intrinsic security features. The project considered threats from conventional explosives and from fire bombs. The project objectives were:
- Increase metro vehicle resilience to terrorist bomb blast, through the selection of vehicle materials and structural design;
- Increase security against a fire bomb attack, through the design of fire barriers and fire suppression technology. This also contributes to passenger safety from accidental fires or from vandalism fires;
- Increase the resilience of vehicles to blasts: this will speed-up recovery following an attack, allowing the rail system to return to normal operation quickly;
- Reduce the attractiveness of metro systems as a target for attack: reduce deaths and injuries, increase resilience, reduce economic impact and make recovery faster.
Methodology:
The project brought together a vehicle builder, system operator and researchers to develop a design methodology validated by laboratory and larger scale tests for building metro vehicle able to cope with blast and fire bomb attacks. It uses innovative solutions to integrate and exploit existing technologies, materials and systems to increase inherent safety and security of vehicles. This includes interaction between the intrinsically more secure vehicle and the infrastructure on which it runs.
SECUREMETRO is divided into several work packages (WP) to meet the aims and objective of the project. These work packages are:
- WP1 - Scenario definition;
- WP2 - Design solutions for blast;
- WP3 - Design solutions for fire and fire bombs;
- WP4 - Pilot test with application of models;
- WP5 - Dissemination and standards;
- WP6 - Project coordination.
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