EuroTAP Brochure - EuroTest

over the past three years, the eurotaP inspectors
have travelled more than 125,000 kilometres, which
is equal to three times around the world. on their
travels, they visited 152 tunnels in 18 countries,
inspected them extensively and assessed their level
of safety.
the results which they brought home with them
are primarily good. 60 percent of europe’s most
important road tunnels demonstrated a high level
of safety and were rated “good” or “very good”.
Coming out on top were the test winners: tying for
fi rst place in 2005 were the Markusberg tunnel in
luxembourg and the ottsdorf tunnel in austria, the
2006 winner was the M-12 tunnel in Spain, and in
2007, the brinje tunnel in Croatia.
“In the 2007 EuroTAP tunnel test
every fi fth tunnel was shown the
red card due to considerable
shortcomings in safety – too many
in the age of state-of-the-art tunnel
philosophy.”
Nicolas adunka, test manager, aDaC
but still, 21 percent and hence more than one in
fi ve of the tunnels tested over the past three years
failed to meet the minimum standards specifi ed by
the european tunnel Directive. to put it in concrete
fi gures: 12 ratings of “poor” and 19 ratings of “very
poor” were issued. and it literally rained “poor”
ratings in those countries with the most tunnels,
i.e. Norway and italy. two thirds of tunnels failed to
make the grade in italy, as did half of the tunnels
in Norway.
in the statistical comparison of countries, Croatia
and Slovenia delivered a positive surprise, heading
the fi eld here. However, these two countries have
only a limited number of tunnels, all of which are still
relatively new. this makes austria’s third place all
the more valuable in light of this country’s diffi cult
topography and long tunnel tradition.