Download or read book Regulation and Risk Analysis of Hazardous Materials Transportation Routes written by John C. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Safer Highway Routing of Ultrahazardous Cargoes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criteria for Highway Routing of Hazardous Materials written by Deborah K. Shaver and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis will be of interest to staff of state departments of transportation responsible for highway routing, traffic engineering, traffic operations and signing, and maintenance. It will also be useful to state police, who may also be responsible for routing, and other enforcement personnel, as well as to emergency and fire personnel. The trucking industry will also find the information of value to their operations. Information is presented on the current practices of states for the highway routing of vehicles that transport hazardous materials. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 1994 issued Guidelines for Applying Criteria to Designate Routes for Transporting Hazardous Materials, which are used by agencies that elect to designate such routes. This report of the Transportation Research Board is based on information obtained from a survey of states concerning the routing of hazardous materials vehicles that asked respondents to rate the importance of 24 factors in the categories of roadway, environment, population, or other criteria in establishing routing policy. The survey also identified the principal agencies responsible for routing, as well as other agencies that typically participate in the routing plan. Enforcement and cost issues are discussed, as is risk assessment. This report presents a unique discussion of the issues as identified by interviews with trucking trade associations and other organizations involved with hazardous materials transport. In addition, technology applicable to more effective monitoring and enforcement is described. The appendices include commodity flow studies and route designation case studies for selected jurisdictions.
Download or read book Restricting Hazardous Materials Routes on the Nations i e Nation s Railroads written by Theodore S. Glickman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation of Hazardous Materials written by Leon N. Moses and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon N. Moses In June 1991, the Transportation Center at Northwestern University sponsored Hazmat Transport '91: A National Conference on the Transportation of Hazardous Materials and Wastes. The faculty associated with the center were aware that there had been many professional, industrial and government conferences and meetings on the subject. However, they believed that the unique capacity of the Transportation Center to bring together leaders from industry and government, as well as leading scholars from economics, law, engineering, psychology and sociology who have done research on the problems associated with the transportation of hazardous materials and wastes (hazmats), could produce a set of integrated insights and understandings that would go well beyond those of previous conferences. The papers that make up this volume were all delivered at Hazmat Transport '91. From a legislative point of view, they tend to deal with issues associated with the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 1975 (HMTA), the original act passed to regulate the transportation of hazardous materials, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990 (HMTVSA). There were talks and papers presented at the conference that focused on other recent legislation and transportation issues with which HMTUSA does not deal. The conference proceedings volume also had discussions and papers on significant managerial and regulatory issues that could not be included in this volume because of constraints on its size. Therefore, this essay is made up of three parts.
Download or read book Risk Analysis as a Means of Designating Routes Used to Transport Hazardous Materials written by Terri Kim Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logistics for Hazardous Materials Transportation written by George F. List and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quantitative Analysis of Options to Reduce Risk of Hazardous Materials Transportation by Railroad written by Athaphon Kawprasert and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The risk associated with railroad transportation of hazardous materials is an ongoing subject of interest to the transportation industries, the government, and the public. A variety of approaches have been considered or adopted to manage and reduce risk. These include improving operating practices and personnel training, improving transportation packaging, maintaining and upgrading infrastructure, and rerouting hazardous materials traffic. Certain risk reduction options have received particular attention in recent years. Realizing the interest and the need for research in this area, this study focuses on consideration of routing, track infrastructure improvement and speed management as approaches to reducing the risk from railroad hazardous materials transportation. For each approach, potential benefits in terms of risk reduction are analyzed using operations research (OR) and quantitative risk assessment (QRA) methods. The goal is to facilitate the consideration of each approach and evaluate its potential application for a particular objective of interest. Furthermore, this study considers improvement of several parameters in the risk model to enhance the quality of risk estimates and to better understand their sensitivity to various assumptions. When resources are limited so that a complete analysis of the entire routes is not possible, statistical methods for route risk comparison are introduced to help decision makers choose the most appropriate route, thereby providing further confidence in an evaluation of routing alternatives or risk reduction options. Route risk analysis is often complex and generates results that can be difficult to interpret. The results from quantitative risk assessment are not very helpful if critical information is not properly interpreted and effectively conveyed to the concerned parties. This is one of the most important issues in risk analysis but has received relatively less attention. This study illustrates several new techniques to present, interpret, and communicate risk results more effectively. Overall, this study aims to develop information on the potential and effectiveness of different risk reduction approaches to facilitate the consideration of the most appropriate option according to the objective of interest of different parties in the railroad hazardous materials transportation supply chain. Part of the findings will help clarify the mutual roles of these parties, including carriers, shippers, and municipalities, and help them develop and implement the most appropriate and effective risk management, reduction, and mitigation options accordingly. Furthermore, the information provided may be useful for regulators and researchers who might be interested in the subjects presented in this dissertation.
Download or read book A Simulation Study for Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Assessment written by Bhanu Prakash Rao Madala and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the areas in Canada are subjected to risk by hazardous-materials shipments. Some of these shipments take place locally or regionally, but a large number of them involve inter-provincial movements across significant distances, and this introduces further complications. According to a 1997 report of Transport Canada, roughly 56% of the total hazardous materials are transported by road annually from one state to another in Canada. Additionally, hazardous materials are transported via all major freight modes such as rail, marine and air. There are several distinct interest groups essentially seeking the same goal--a reduction in the adverse effects of commercial transportation operation on the community. With this consensus position that transportation hazard analysis and incident management are important components of contemporary transportation operations and regulation, there is a need to develop methods and systems that can be used to assist decision makers in addressing these considerations. This research describes a methodology and system development that can be applied to this task. This research presents a methodology for assessment of the hazardous material transport risk in a single commodity, multiple origin-destination setting. The province of Ontario is chosen as the study area and major cities are identified as points of origin and destination. Highway network in this area is the basis for identifying paths (routes) between origin-destination (cities) using different criteria such as distance, risk, etc. Gasoline shipments is chosen for the study. We developed a simulation model in Visual Basic to assess the risk imposed on certain cities through which hazmats (Hazardous Materials) are being transported which also illustrates the number of people to be evacuated in case of an incident. The purpose of this research is to get a clearer understanding of hazardous materials transportation and describe a community's/region's hazardous materials transportation risk problem. The model developed also assists decision makers to develop the right policies to reduce the risk posed due to the shipment of hazardous materials to life and environment.
Download or read book Transportation of Hazardous Materials written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Packaging and Transportation Risk Management and Evaluation Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipments of radioactive materials and hazardous chemicals at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are governed by a variety of Federal and state regulations, industrial standards, and LANL processes and procedures. Good judgement is exercised in situations that are not covered by regulations. As a result, the safety record for transporting hazardous materials at LANL has been excellent. However, future decisions should be made such that the decision-making process produces a defensible record of the safety of onsite shipments. This report proposes the development of a risk management tool to meet this need. First, the application of quantitative risk analysis methodology to transportation is presented to provide a framework of understanding. Risk analysis definitions, the basic quantitative risk analysis procedure, quantitative methodologies, transportation data bases, and risk presentation techniques are described. Quantitative risk analysis is frequently complex; but simplified approaches can be used as a management tool to make good decisions. Second, a plan to apply the use of risk management principles to the selection of routes, special administrative controls, and containers for hazardous material transportation at LANL is provided. A risk management tool is proposed that can be used by MAT-2 without substantial support from specialized safety and risk analysis personnel, e.g., HS-3. A workbook approach is proposed that can be automated at a later date. The safety of some types of onsite shipments at LANL is not well documented. Documenting that shipments are safe, i.e., present acceptable risks, will likely require elaborate analyses that should be thoroughly reviewed by safety and risk professionals. These detailed analyses are used as benchmarks and as examples for the use of the proposed tool by MAT-2. Once the benchmarks are established, the workbook can be used by MAT-2 to quantify that safety goals are met by similar shipments.
Download or read book Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for 1989 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quantitative Transportation Risk Analysis Based on Available Data databases written by Yuanhua Qiao and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical evidence has shown that incidents due to hazardous materials (HazMat) releases during transportation can lead to severe consequences. The public and some agencies such as the Department of Transportation (DOT) show an increasing concern with the hazard associated with HazMat transportation. Many hazards may be identified and controlled or eliminated through use of risk analysis. Transportation Risk Analysis (TRA) is a powerful tool in HazMat transportation decision support system. It is helpful in choosing among alternate routes by providing information on risks associated with each route, and in selecting appropriate risk reduction alternatives by demonstrating the effectiveness of various alternatives. Some methodologies have been developed to assess the transportation risk; however, most of those proposed methodologies are hard to employ directly by decision or policy makers. One major barrier is the lack of the match between available data/database analysis and the numerical methodologies for TRA. In this work methodologies to assess the transportation risk are developed based on the availability of data or databases. The match between the availability of data/databases and numerical TRA methodologies is pursued. Each risk component, including frequency, release scenario, and consequence, is assessed based on the available data/databases. The risk is measured by numerical algorithms step by step in the transportation network. Based on the TRA results, decisions on HazMat transportation could be made appropriately and reasonably. The combination of recent interest in expanding or building new facilities to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, along with increased awareness and concern about potential terrorist action, has raised questions about the potential consequences of incidents involving LNG transportation. One of those consequences, rapid phase transition (RPT), is studied in this dissertation. The incidents and experiments of LNG-water RPT and theoretical analysis about RPT mechanism are reviewed. Some other consequences, like pool spread and vapor cloud dispersion, are analyzed by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) model.
Download or read book Risk Concepts in Dangerous Goods Transportation Regulations written by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of the Feasibility of a Hazardous Materials Transportation Cooperative Research Program and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2005 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Analysis in Hazardous Materials Transportation written by Lloyd L. Philipson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Analysis in Hazardous Materials Transportation Volume I Final written by George P. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
