Resilience of Underground Public Transport Systems

STUVA coordinates
new Research Project
U-THREAT in German-French Cooperation

Since 1 August 2017, the STUVA has been coordinating the new research project U-THREAT, which is concerned with the „resilience of public transport systems to ensure availability“

The improvement of the resilience of underground public transport systems is the main focus of a new research project, which has been coordinated by the STUVA e. V. since 1 August 2017. The project with the title resilience of underground public transport systems to ensure availability (U-THREAT) is being supported over the next three years with 1.0 million euros by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) based on the research for civil safety program.

In cities and metropolitan areas, underground railways networks are of special significance since they are not hindered by...

Issue 06/2019 STUVA Research | STUVA-Forschung

Full-Scale U-THREAT Exercise in the Lyon Metro

The exercise took place during the nocturnal closure to traffic of the Lyon Metro on the night of 8 to 9 October 2019. In the exercise scenario, a train is immobilised between the Place Jean...

Issue 04/2020

60 Years For Transport – STUVA Anniversary

It all began on the 5th January 1959. On this day in the Rotary-Club in Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Karl Schmitz-Scholl, founder of the Tengelmann Group, presented his vision of an underground railway...

Issue 07/2017 SUVEREN

Research Project with the Involvement of the STUVA: Improvement of the Safety in Under- ground Transport Areas in Cities when new Energy sources are used

A new project started with the involvement of the STUVA in August 2017: Verbesserung der Sicherheit in unterirdischen städtischen Verkehrsbereichen bei Einsatz neuer Energieträger (SUVEREN)...

Issue 03/2019

An increasingly important Demand on Metro Systems: Resilience

On April 9, a seminar-workshop was held in Düsseldorf by the STUVA in conjunction with the VDV the Association of German Transport Companies (Fig. 1). The topic was: Availability of Public...

Issue 03/2016 Security in Public Transport

InREAKT Research Project enters its final Phase

For several weeks now a tram stop shelter has graced the STUVA halls in Cologne. It serves to direct theoretical findings gained within the scope of the research project InREAKT Integrated...

tunnel 07/2017