COMPARISON OF ACTUAL AND PREDICTED ROUTES USED IN THE SHIPMENT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS

A number of highway controlled shipments of radioactive materials have been made over the past several years. An excellent example showing the variability of actual routes is the transfer of 45 shipments between the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania and Scoville, Idaho in 1982 and 1983. Six different routes varying between 2273 and 2483 miles were used. Approximately 75% of these shipments followed a common route which passed through ten Urbanized Areas, defined by the Census Bureau as having a population exceeding 100,000 people. Other routes, while shorter in distance, passed through as many as 14 Urbanized Areas. Routes predicted by the Oak Ridge routing model did not exactly duplicate actual routes used. However, the analysis shows that the routing model does make a good estimate of transportation routes actually chosen by shippers of radioactive materials. In actual practice, a number of factors (weather, road conditions, driver preference, influence the actual route taken. (ERA citation 10:026842) actual route taken. (ERA citation 10:026842)

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  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  P. O. Box 2008
  Oak Ridge, TN  United States  37831
• Authors:
  • Joy, D S
  • JOHNSON, P E
  • Harrison, I G
• Publication Date: 1985

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• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight transportation; Hazardous materials; Mathematical models; Radioactive materials; Routing; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I71: Traffic Theory;

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• Accession Number: 00453087
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CONF-850314-63
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:24PM