RAILROAD HAZARDOUS COMMODITY TRAFFIC ANALYSIS FOR REGION 8

This report develops a baseline inventory of rail hazardous commodities that originate in, terminate in, or pass through Region 8 (which includes the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming). The inventory also includes a set of interregional tables that summarize hazardous rail commodity flows to and from each federal region. These tables were developed from a special version of the waybill database provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The most important uses of the inventory are in: 1. identifying the general commodities and the magnitudes of hazardous rail commodity flows within the region; 2. describing interregional commercial flows of hazardous materials; and 3. providing commodity flow information for use in general emergency response planning.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=437
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052
• Authors:
  • Tolliver, D
  • Lahlum, S
  • Kalnbach, M
• Publication Date: 1996-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 62 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Commodity flow; Disasters and emergency operations; Freight traffic; Hazardous materials; Inventory; Planning; Railroad transportation; Risk analysis; Tables (Data); Waybill samples
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency response
• Old TRIS Terms: Tables; Traffic analysis (Freight)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00722161
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Rept. No. 96-53A
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 20 1996 12:00AM