SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TRUCK ROUTING

Shipping hazardous material (hazmat) places the public at risk. People who live or work near roads commonly traveled by hazmat vehicles endure the highest risk. Careful selection of roads used for a hazmat shipment can reduce risk to the population. On the other hand, a least-time route will often consist of an urban interstate, thus placing many people in harms way. Route choice is therefore the process of resolving the conflict between population at risk and efficiency considerations. To assist in resolving this conflict, a working spatial decision support system (SDSS) called Hazmat Path is developed. The proposed hazmat routing SDSS overcomes 3 significant challenges: handling a realistic network, offering sophisticated route generating heuristics, and functioning on a desktop personal computer. The paper discusses creative approaches to data manipulation, data and solution visualization, user interfaces, and optimization heuristics implemented in Hazmat Path to meet these challenges.

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• Authors:
  • Frank, W C
  • Thill, J-C
  • Batta, R
• Publication Date: 2000-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 337-359
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0968-090X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Freight transportation; Hazardous materials; Health hazards; Heuristic methods; Highway transportation; Routing; Spatial analysis; Truck traffic; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00800332
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 5 2000 12:00AM