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Transportation Award

Core77 Design Awards 2021

Results Announced for Community Choice Prize See All Winners

TUNNEL KEEPER

TUNNEL KEEPER is a high-mobility fire rescue vehicles design for the tunnel. It integrates with the fire-fighting equipment inside the tunnel to improve the rescue efficiency. The unique body design, which includes side smoke exhaust device, water mist equipment and CAFS system, protect the firefighter from high heat and heavy smoke caused by traffic accident. Moreover, it is designed to combine the fire hydrant in the tunnel to prevent the spread of the fire at the initial stage, as well as assist people to escape and transport the injured, reduce the casualty, and improve the accessibility of rescue.

TUNNEL KEEPER Characteristics


The tunnel highway is a space designed and constructed according to the terrain. When a fire occurs by an accident, its enclosed structure and environment make the smoke hard to dissipate, which makes rescue and escape are extremely difficult; Especially when the tunnel full of vehicles, and large rescue vehicles very difficult to enter and exit, which can easily result in severe disaster and cause casualties.

TUNNEL KEEPER is a high-mobility fire rescue vehicles design for the tunnel. It integrates with the fire-fighting equipment inside the tunnel to improve the rescue efficiency. The unique body design, which includes side smoke exhaust device, water mist equipment and CAFS system, protect the firefighter from high heat and heavy smoke caused by traffic accident. Moreover, it is designed to combine the fire hydrant in the tunnel to prevent the spread of the fire at the initial stage, as well as assist people to escape and transport the injured, reduce the casualty, and improve the accessibility of rescue.

TUNNEL KEEPER Three Characteristics

1.Equipped with a CAFS- Compressed Air Foam System at the rear part. Firefighters can take out the foam nozzle from the front and use infrared rays to aim at the fire to extinguish after connecting the hose to the rear steel cylinder to the fire hydrant in the tunnel.

2.Dispatched prior to the large smoke exhaust vehicle arrive. The equipped smoke exhaust and water mist system can exhaust high temperature smoke, reduce the CO concentration and increase visibility in order to success in initial fire fighting, delay the expansion of disaster and reduce casualties.

3.It can be used with rescue supply box or ambulance stretcher to help transport the injured to the tunnel entrance.

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Results Announced for Community Choice Prize See All Winners
  • Honoree

    Shu-Qing Ou, Wei-Chi Chen, Ying-Cih Shao, Ching-Hsin Hsu

  • School

    Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology

  • Project Team

    Prof. Ya-Lin Chen, Chien-Min Fang

    Shu-Qing Ou, Wei-Chi Chen, Ying-Cih Shao, Ching-Hsin Hsu

  • Category

    Transportation

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