The forum helps to generate practical operational procedures for managing incidents in underground transportation facilities.

Among the topics discussed at this year's IFA forum were impressive operational reports, new safety systems, psychology for operations based on evacuations, social media in operations, and organisation and teaching.

Dr. Franz Graf from DIGITAL was invited by IFA to present the Acoustic Tunnel Monitoring - AKUT. Due to the rapid incident detection and alerting in less than one second, AKUT® is the optimal solution for every tunnel operator to quickly detect critical incidents in tunnels and to initiate first measures. During the presentation, Franz Graf also provided insights into the alerting and experiences of the fire departments when fighting the fire of a truck-mounted crane in the Gleinalm tunnel in October 2018.