A cost and expected consequence approach to planning and managing railroad transportation of hazardous materials

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 300-308

  Verma, Manish ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hazardous materials; Railroad transportation; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

COSTS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HAZARDS; MATERIALS HANDLING; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROADS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; FREIGHT TRAFFIC; NONDOMINATED SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; PROBLEM INSTANCES; RAILROAD INDUSTRY; RISK COSTS; TRANSPORT RISKS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

HAZARDOUS WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349130512     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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