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Optimizing Railroad Tank Car Safety Design to Reduce Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk
I develop a modeling approach in which tank car safety design optimization is considered as a two-phase process. The first phase addresses the tradeoff between safety and transportation efficiency by using Pareto optimization to identify the most efficient design combinations to improve safety …
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Optimal strategies to improve railroad train safety and reduce hazardous materials transportation risk
… minimized to the extent feasible. Railroad train safety is affected by a variety of infrastructure, rolling stock and operational factors. These factors, individually and in combination, should be properly accounted for in hazardous materials transportation risk management. This dissertation …
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Estimating the conditional derailment probability of release (CDPR) of tank cars in freight train derailments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01