Designing emergency response networks for hazardous materials transportation

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1374-1388

  Berman, Oded ^a   Verter, Vedat ^b   Kara, Bahar Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Geographical information systems; Hazardous materials; Maximal cover; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GASOLINE; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAXIMAL COVER; OPTIMAL DESIGN;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 33748974769     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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