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Hazardous materials database
… during dismantling of a retired object many hazardous materials are released. Disposal of hazardous materials also need to comply with various federal regulations. Agencies like Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set these safety …
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Hazardous Materials Transportation Flow Survey: An Evaluation of Hazardous Materials Transported in Washington County.
<p>This study examines the transportation of hazardous materials through Washington County, Tennessee. This study incorporates federal, state, and local data in assessing current transportation trends. Data gathering activities included local chemical inventories, hazardous materials transportation …
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The hazardous materials vehicle routing problem
Hazardous materials (hazmat) have become important goods for satisfying the industrial and customer demand in our modern society. The transportation of these materials is always associated with safety, security and environmental concerns due to the dangerous nature of the cargo. To improve the …
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A simulation study for hazardous materials transportation risk assessment
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 …
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Risk analysis for hazardous materials transportation using geographic information system
… site for storing high level radioactive materials. The material will be transported by highway or rail to the repository from nuclear reactors and other federal sites located throughout the United States. The selection and design of these transport routes involve consideration of the …
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Development of mitigation measures for safe transportation of hazardous materials
The number of hazardous materials transported by truck mode and also the quantities shipped continues to grow every year. In recognition of the potential disasters associated with the occurrence of the release of hazardous materials, several studies have been conducted on various aspects of the …
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Development of risk assessment decision support system for hazardous materials movement
… on risk assessment associated with movement of hazardous materials, and determination of corresponding vulnerable areas in the state. A goal of this research is to make the hazardous material risk assessment an integral part of accident analysis find risk management functions in transportation …
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Optimizing Railroad Tank Car Safety Design to Reduce Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk
… protection for tank cars transporting different hazardous materials. This modeling approach is applied to two different current tank car safety design problems; consideration of tank car safety design enhancements to reduce the risk of transporting toxic inhalation hazard materials, and a group …
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Optimal strategies to improve railroad train safety and reduce hazardous materials transportation risk
… offer a safe and efficient means to transport hazardous materials in North America. Nonetheless, the potential risk of hazardous materials release incidents to human health, property and the environment must be appropriately managed and minimized to the extent feasible. Railroad train safety is …
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Quantitative analysis of options to reduce risk of hazardous materials transportation by railroad
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Knowledge-based classification scheme for regulating the flow of hazardous materials through tunnels
… are concerned with developing restrictions for hazardous materials passing through the facility that will reduce the risk of death and injury, to an extent that these restrictions do not burden commerce unnecessarily. Hazardous material regulatory controls for tunnels are extensive, detailed, …
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Cost -Effectiveness of Reducing Environmental Risk From Railroad Tank Car Transportation of Hazardous Materials
DOT 111A100W1 specification tank cars are the most commonly used cars for the commodities considered. A variety of alternative tank cars with more protective features such as, half- or full-height head shields, jacket and insulation and top fittings protection were considered. Although the …
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Multispecies toxicity tests using indigenous organisms: predicting the effects of hazardous materials in streams
The purpose of the investigation presented in chapter 1 was to determine which of the following artificial stream designs would be most logistically simple yet effective in maintaining riffle insects during a 30-d bioassay: 1) static and no current (S-NC); 2) flow-through and no current (FT-NC); 3) …
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Path Prediction and Path Diversion Identifying Methodologies for Hazardous Materials Transported by Malicious Entities
Safe and secure transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat) is a challenging issue in terms of optimizing risk to society and simultaneously making the shipment delivery economical. The most important safety concern of hazardous material transportation is accidents causing multiple causalities. …
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Local government role in ensuring pipeline safety : landuse planning, development controls, transportation of hazardous materials
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Development of an accident database for quantitative safety and risk analysis of highway bulk-package transportation of hazardous materials
… quantity of release if a vehicle transporting hazardous materials (a.k.a. hazmat, dangerous goods) is involved in an accident. However, the ability to statistically quantify bulk package performance is constrained due to insufficient reliable information about the number of accidents, nature …
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A microcomputer model for assessing the relative risks and vulnerabilities of streets and jurisdictions to the shipment of hazardous materials
… so as to minimize the danger to localities from hazardous materials shipments is a growing concern among transportation planners. Standing in their way are a number of difficulties inherent in the data collection and modeling practices currently in use. Additionally, such current practices do not …
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External costs of transports imposed on neighbours and fellow road users
… preferences regarding railway transports of hazardous materials. Exposure to hazardous materials is used to describe various transport configurations. It is shown that the choice experiment method as well as the use of exposure can be applied within this area. In the final paper, preferences …
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Quantitative analyses of unit train safety and railroad tank car implementation policy
… thesis focuses on derailments and releases of hazardous materials, specifically three topics related to this general theme: unit train loading condition, the effect of train configuration on risk, and policies for implementation schedule for safer tank cars. The effect of loading condition on …
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