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https://doi.org/10.3141/1707-03

http://scholar.google.com...hard&publication_year=2000

The Office of Safety of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is responsible for ensuring public and personnel safety in U.S. railroad operations. This office ensures the safe rail transportation of hazardous materials by conducting inspections of railroad operations and equipment, including tank cars, and developing safety-related regulations. In the past few years, the Office of Safety has been using risk analysis as a tool in making rational regulatory decisions on hazardous materials transportation in tank cars. A risk analysis protocol developed by FRA is described to evaluate the risks to the U.S. population arising from the transportation of different types of chemicals in tank cars on the U.S. railroad system. Following several recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board requiring the shipment of several hazardous chemicals in highly protected, pressure-rated tank cars rather than in the minimum packaging authorized by the Code of Federal Regulations, a risk-based evaluation was made on the effect of implementing these recommendations on the overall risk reduction. The risk results were presented in the parameters of Military Standard 882-B. Policy decisions were made based on the results.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1707, Freight Transportation Research.

English

p. 22-26

2000

Transportation Research Record

0309066867

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Decision making; Hazardous materials; Railroad transportation; Regulations; Risk analysis; Tank cars; Transportation policy

Military Standard 882-B

Highways; Law; Policy; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors

TRIS, TRB

Sep 26 2000 12:00AM

• CAR SCHEDULING: WHAT'S THE POINT? (WITH DISCUSSION AND CLOSURE)
• DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION
• DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE TRUCK TRIP FORECASTING MODEL BASED ON COMMODITY FLOWS AND INPUT-OUTPUT COEFFICIENTS
• ESTIMATING MAINTENANCE-OF-WAY COSTS FOR U.S. RAILROADS AFTER DEREGULATION
• EXTERNAL URBAN TRUCK TRIPS BASED ON COMMODITY FLOWS: A MODEL
• POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS TO ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT IN MEXICO
• REDUCING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RELEASES FROM RAILROAD TANK CAR SAFETY VENTS
• RELATIONSHIP OF FREIGHT FACILITIES IN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OFFICE BUILDINGS TO TRUCK TRAFFIC
• TRIP LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS IN COMMODITY-BASED AND TRIP-BASED FREIGHT DEMAND MODELING: INVESTIGATION OF RELATIONSHIPS
• VALUE PRICING AND FREIGHT TRAFFIC: ISSUES AND INDUSTRY CONSTRAINTS IN SHIFTING FROM PEAK TO OFF-PEAK MOVEMENTS