Conference Agenda
Highly interesting, high-quality presentations on many different topics will be presented in parallel sessions, providing the basis for lively discussions among the experts in attendance. Below you will find an overview and details of the sessions of our International Conference.
As usual, all presentations will be simultaneously translated into English and German!
Venue: Messecongress Graz (Messeplatz 1, 8010 Graz)
PDF: Download the program
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th June 2026, 10:32:30am CEST
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Daily Overview |
| 8:45am - 10:00am |
Session S4 Location: Hall Styria Cultural differences in road tunnel fire safety Stacey Agnew Pty Ltd, Australia 9:10am - 9:35am Acceptance criteria for design of longitudinal ventilation systems in road tunnels: Theoretical framework Sweco, Belgium 9:35am - 10:00am State of the art and lines of development for the Artu risk analysis software Cantene s.r.l, Italy |
Session G4 Location: Hall Graz Heat transmission between ground and tunnel air for different configurations and uses Sener Mobility SA, Spain 9:10am - 9:35am Enhancement of the dispersion of pollutants near a tunnel ending in a street canyon, a CFD case study 1: CETU, France; 2: AtmoSud, France 9:35am - 10:00am Smoke recirculation at road-tunnel portals Amberg Engineering, Switzerland |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30am - 11:45am |
Session S5 Location: Hall Styria Application of low-tech and lean-tech concepts to road tunnels for greater energy efficiency Egis, France 10:55am - 11:20am Effects of contributing to decarbonization by model-based predictive ventilation control (MPVC) on expressways 1: Nippon Expressway Research Institute Company Limited, Japan; 2: East Nippon Expressway Company Limited, Japan; 3: AMEC Consultants Company Limited, Japan; 4: Central Nippon Highway Engineering Nagoya Company Limited, Japan; 5: University of Dundee, United Kingdom 11:20am - 11:45am Improving energy efficiency in road tunnels 1: crypta.sec conceptum GmbH, Austria; 2: BASt, Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute, Germany; 3: Graz University of Technology, Institute of Thermodynamics and Sustainable Propulsion Systems, Austria; 4: Graz University of Technology, Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling, Austria |
Session G5 Location: Hall Graz On smoke detection systems in road tunnels - a quantitative comparison 1: AFRY Switzerland AG, Switzerland; 2: HBI Haerter, Switzerland; 3: buntech GmbH, Switzerland; 4: Federal Roads Office FEDRO, Switzerland 10:55am - 11:20am Optimization of the main fans and associated drives for the E4 Stockholm bypass 1: HBI Haerter, Switzerland; 2: Trafikverket, Sweden; 3: Zitron, Netherlands 11:20am - 11:45am Web-SCADA: A web-based supervisory control and data acquisition platform for road tunnel safety in Japan 1: Sohatsu Systems Laboratory Inc., Japan; 2: Kobe University, Japan; 3: University of Dundee, United Kingdom |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:15pm - 2:30pm |
Session S6 Location: Hall Styria Towards accurate tunnel fire simulations: Grid sensitivity and les model comparison in fire dynamics simulator 1: Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV), Major Community Infrastructure Unit (MCIU), Australia; 2: Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE), Victoria University, Australia 1:40pm - 2:05pm On the flow resistance of tunnel fires – validation by full-scale fire tests 1: Riess Ingenieur-GmbH, Switzerland; 2: OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule, Switzerland 2:05pm - 2:30pm Effect of road tunnel fitout on smoke control Stacey Agnew Pty Ltd, Australia |
Session G6 Location: Hall Graz Consequences from large EV fires in a tunnel - a DACH research activitiy 1: Graz University of Technology, Institute of Thermodynamics and Sustainable Propulsion Systems, Austria; 2: ILF Consulting Engineers Austria GmbH, Austria; 3: HBI Haerter AG, Switzerland; 4: WSP, Switzerland; 5: University ofLeoben, Austria; 6: Studiengesellschaft für Tunnel und Verkehrsanlagen – STUVA – e. V., Germany 1:40pm - 2:05pm Modeling airborne brake wear particle transport in subway systems: A line-scale framework Metro de Madrid (MdM), Spain 2:05pm - 2:30pm From motion to understanding: How deep learning enhances automatic incident detection Citilog, France |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
Session S7 Location: Hall Styria Influence of the tunnel cross-section on tunnel aerodynamics Gruner GmbH Wien, Austria 3:25pm - 3:50pm Air speeds near services on tunnel walls 1: WSP UK Ltd, United Kingdom; 2: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; 3: HS2 Ltd, United Kingdom 3:50pm - 4:15pm Train-induced aerodynamic loads acting on installations of Granitztal tunnel REVOTEC, Austria |
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| 4:15pm - 4:25pm |
Closing Remarks Location: Hall Styria |
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