Overview
Germany has to cope with a high traffic density every day. Thereby tunnels and bridges are important elements of the corresponding road infrastructure which are at the same time highly susceptible to faults. Additionally, they can have a significant function in the overall traffic network flow. It follows that the protection of infrastructural objects within the federal major road network, comprising of 240 tunnels and approximately 39.000 bridges, is a vital goal with respect to the efficiency and the functioning of our infrastructure itself and at the same time to our national well-being.
Threats result from:
- Terrorism and criminal activities
- Natural hazards
- Major accidents
Main protection goals of SKRIBTplus concern:
- Life
- Mobility
- Infrastructure
- Supply of private households and the economy
The interdisciplinary composition of the consortium reflects the variety of these challenges. The central challenges in SKRIBTplus, resulting from the aforementioned protection goals, are:
- Security and safety of the users
- Protection of infrastructural objects
- High availability of infrastructural objects
In SKRIBTplus innovative protection technologies are developed and demonstrated on selected objects. Thereby, the focus is on:
- Construction engineering: Innovative construction materials and structures
- Operational engineering: Innovative detection and control technologies
- Organization: Optimized incident management
Additionally, protection measures which were already developed within the predecessor project SKRIBT are revised and combinations of different measures are investigated for a potential improvement of their protection effect.
Funding
Results
The following list is representative for the application guidelines that were developed within SKRIBTplus:
For owners and operators of infrastructural objects:
- Automatic structural assessment for bridges in case of explosions
- Simplified assessment rules
- Workshop for infrastructure owners for assessing threats and relevant protection measures
- Method for safety and security related assessment of infrastructural objects
- Guide for quick safeguarding of load-bearing structures
- Manual “Security-Risk-Management”
For first responders:
- Guideline crisis management
For users:
- Guide for improving the behaviour of the user
Findings of the study are published in detail by several final reports of the project partners (German only) which are available online via the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB):
Federal Highway Research Institute BAST
"Fire investigations, demonstrations and application guides"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A849710022/Verbundprojekt-SKRIBTPlus-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK), Bonn
"operative crisis management and risk analysis in tunnel control centers"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A878840990/Operatives-Krisenmanagement-und-Risikoanalyse-Tunnelleitzentralen/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, Freiburg
"evaluation of terroristic threats"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A837266882/Verbundprojekt-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken-und-Tunnel/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH, Essen
"Structural and operational protection measures for bridges and tunnels"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A847855007/Verbundprojekt-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken-und-Tunnel/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG, Karlsruhe
"Effectiveness for users and traffic"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A860629414/Verbundprojekt-SPRIBTPlus-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
Ruhr-Universität Bochum:
"Development of new assessment methods of building evaluation"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A882692399/Verbundprojekt-SKRIBT-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
Schüßler-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf
"actions for enhancement of structural performance"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A858739453/Verbundprojekt-SKRIBIT-Plus-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
Siemens AG, München
"Exploration and optimization of new technologies and methods for detection and control technology"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A857032054/Verbundprojekt-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken-und-Tunnel/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design ILEK
"Bridges under fire loads, in-depth evaluation of security issues and development of guidelines as application documents"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A859816648/Verbundprojekt-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken-und-Tunnel/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
University of Würzburg, Institute for psychology
"human behavior: Research on psychological factors"
https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A858998890/Verbundprojekt-SKRIBTPlus-Schutz-kritischer-Br%C3%BCcken/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
Furthermore, there is a Flyer (English) providing an overview: http://134.147.230.146/skribt/skribtplus/download/120625_Infoflyer_en.pdf