Assessment of hazardous material risks for rail yard safety

Safety Science

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 813-822

  Glickman, Theodore S ^a   Erkut, Erhan ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hazardous materials; Rail road; Rail yard; Risk assessment; Safety; Transportation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CONCERNS; CRITICAL IMPACT DISTANCES; EVENT TREE; MODELING TOOLS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS;

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; HEXANE; HEXENE; MONOETHYLENE GLYCOL; PROPYLENE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DANGEROUS GOODS; EMPIRICISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAILWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TANK; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 34250874586     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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