Smoke control design for urban traffic link tunnel

Hua Gaoying, Li Lei

2014.12.15

The urban traffic link tunnel (UTLT) is a new type of underground urban traffic system, consisting of a main tunnel and several linked tunnels, and the main tunnel is in a loop shape or branched shape. Based on the UTLT with loop main tunnel, through analyzing its characteristics and smoke control design difficulties, provides the method of smoke control and typical parameters setting in the application of performance-based fire protection design.