A Bi-Objective Approach to Evaluate Highway Routing and Regulatory Strategies for Hazardous Materials Transportation

Hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation is of concern to policymakers because of the serious safety, health, and environmental risks associated with the release of hazmat. One effective approach to minimize risks associated with hazmat transport is the prohibition of hazmat transportation on higher risk links that either pose safety hazards or increased exposure by traversing densely populated areas. Because of high risk, there are multiple stakeholders involved in hazmat transportation. While shippers and carriers are directly involved in making routing decisions, regulatory agencies influence this decision by imposing routing restrictions. In this paper, the authors apply a bi-objective shortest path problem to evaluate routing and regulation plans for hazmat transportation. The authors characterize the cost objective as the shortest path between an origin and a destination. The risk objective is to minimize the risk of exposure by restricting the link with the highest risk on the best available path from an origin to a destination. The authors formulate the bi-objective model and apply it to a test network. Solutions consider multiple origin-destination pairs and present a non-dominated frontier to establish routing and regulatory strategies for hazmat transportation.

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  • https://trforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2014v53n1_03_HazardousMaterials.pdf
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the Transportation Research Forum.
• Authors:
  • Rahman, Ashrafur
  • Fiondella, Lance
  • Lownes, Nicholas E
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Illustrations; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 7-22
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 53
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Hazardous materials; Origin and destination; Risk management; Routes and routing; Safety and security
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01735659
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 2 2020 9:43AM