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Advanced Forest Fire Fighting (AF3)
Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,
In recent years, the frequency of large-scale forest fires has increased significantly owing to a number of factors including the effects of climate change, urbanisation, poor landscape management and malevolent acts. These so-called “Mega-fires” are particularly destructive and difficult to control with the technologies and systems currently available to fire fighters and emergency agencies. The ...
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The Railway-Industry Partnership for Integrated Security of Rail Transport (PROTECTRAIL)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,
Facing the problem of enhancing the railway security with a systematic top-down approach (i.e. to search for an all-inclusive solution valid for all the conceivable threat scenarios) is judged by PROTECTRAIL members too ambitious even if it could generate potential economies of scale and effort rationalisation. The proposed PROTECTRAIL approach is therefore to split the problem of making the railw ...
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A railway automatic track warning system based on distributed personal mobile terminals (ALARP)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,
"The objective of the ALARP project is therefore to study, design and develop an innovative more efficient Automatic Track Warning System (ATWS) to improve the safety of railway trackside workers.ALARP ATWS will able to selectively inform the trackside workers about approaching trains on the track, maintenance events on power lines and/or safety equipment in the concerned tracks that may put at ri ...
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