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Hazardous materials transportation (hydrocarbons, explosives, chemicals...) represents technological and environmental risks for exposed populations, infrastructures and environment. The paper presents an innovative concept based on a dynamic geofencing application, designed for the monitoring, the control and management of hazardous materials transportation in urban areas. The proposed solution should enable new value-added services for all the stakeholders involved in this activity, both public bodies and private actors (public authorities, emergency bodies, road operators, loaders, carriers, tank-container operators, drivers, etc.). In order to tightly meet their needs, several surveys and interviews were carried out with different categories of stakeholders, and a synthesis of main user requirements was established. Based on information and communication technologies, for implementing dynamic geofencing applications and hazardous materials risk level analysis, the operational platform was designed to perform calculations in real time, on demand or automatically. Thus, the proposed solution should provide efficient and reliable tools for all the actors, aiming to increase safety and security in the hazardous materials transportation sector. The case study presents two operational applications of the platform. The first one deals with the implementation of a restricted access control for hazardous materials transportation in order to protect sensitive road stretches and infrastructures (e.g. tunnel), where hazmat are banned. The second one presents the results of a risk level analysis, performed on the basis of hazmat characteristics (hydrocarbon, chemical, etc.), physical data (volume, temperature, etc.) and also the precise location of hazardous materials, tapping real time global positioning system (GPS) data received from the truck.

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

01550057

15-0783

English

13p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Case studies; Freight transportation; Global Positioning System; Hazardous materials; Real time information; Risk analysis; Routing; Urban areas

Geofencing

Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-0783

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 12:21PM