Transportation of Dangerous Goods Policy & Evaluation Protocol

This paper describes how the City of Calgary, Canada Transportation and Land Use Planning, Development/Building Approvals Departments developed a policy and protocols for the establishment and technical review of dangerous goods routes. This was required for three reasons, often referred to as ‘triple bottom line’. First, there was the need for a consistent, comprehensive, and technically robust procedure to be developed to ensure viability and integration between the land use planning and transportation network processes (economic). Second, there was the need to ensure an environmentally robust procedure was established to ensure complicity with federal and provincial environmental requirements (environmental). Third, were the requests from the public and politicians to eliminate roadway designations for the transportation of dangerous goods (social). In all cases there is the underlying recognition that many stakeholders do not understand the purpose of a dangerous goods route and that substantive technical evaluation criteria and procedures been established. Additionally, due to Provincial legislation (Alberta) requiring a review of the dangerous goods network at least every five years, evaluation criteria were established that allow the land use and transportation planners to determine what roadways should be designated as dangerous goods routes at the outline plan stage, and allowance for the roadway operating authority to repeat the process to meet the requirements of the enabling legislation.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Nelson, Cam
• Conference:
  • ITE 2007 Annual Meeting and Exhibit
  • Location: Pittsburgh PA, United States
  • Date: 2007-8-5 to 2007-8-8
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: 2007 Annual Meeting and Exhibit Compendium of Technical Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hazardous materials; Land use planning; Legislation; Regulations; Routes and routing
• Geographic Terms: Calgary (Canada)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01363355
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 23 2012 2:38PM