Implementing Non-Radioactive Hazardous Material (NRHM) Transportation Routes

Since September 11, 2001, and subsequent threats to the transportation system, large urban area planners have become increasingly aware of the importance of alternative routing for hazardous materials movements by trucks. Transportation planners and engineers have developed security relationships with other disciplines such as police, fire and rescue, and other emergency management and response personnel to meet the challenges of safely and efficiently moving hazardous materials. Crashes involving trucks carrying hazardous materials are, in most cases. disastrous to both the highway system and surrounding environment. Although security and hazardous route planning has taken place in urban settings, a significant number of outlying smaller cities and municipalities have not established the same criteria. Transporting hazardous materials through rural communities may pose unique challenges because vehicles move through various environments and there are a limited number of available transportation networks. This information was developed to summarize the requirements and present the overall process that must take place to implement and designate a non-radioactive hazardous materials route.

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• Summary URL:
  http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=651
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Authors:
  • Lofgren, Mark
• Publication Date: 2010-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 30p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster preparedness; Hazardous materials; Implementation; Rural areas; Security; Truck routes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01164241
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC Report No. 10-221
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 29 2010 9:24AM