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Title:

Risk Assessment of Hazardous Materials Transportation Routes

Accession Number:

01506516

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In this paper, a new risk measure was defined for the transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat). Unlike the traditional risk measure, a decay function to acknowledge the progression of risk inside an impact area and travel time to allow for the duration of exposure were incorporated in the new risk measure. The risk measure was applied to assess the hazmat transportation risk of two routes in the City of New Haven, Connecticut- a route that is currently being used but is in the process of a major roadway geometry and operational change and an alternative route that the city has proposed along the southern part of the city. The effectiveness of the proposed route was evaluated by quantitatively analyzing the new and the traditional risk measures, population, travel time, and route length.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT040 Transportation of Hazardous Materials.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-3036

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rahman, Ashrafur
Lownes, Nicholas E

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Road networks

Geographic Terms:

New Haven (Connecticut)

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-3036

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:03PM