Reasonable risk models in hazardous material transportation are of practical significance, for safeguarding the lives and properties, protecting natural environment, facilitating sustainable development. The existing can be classified into summation maximum models, which result overreliance on overall or local risk. To overcome these problems, this article, we present two novel considering diff...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Hazardous Materials Safety estimates that an average of over 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials (HAZMAT) are made each day in the United States [27]. The DOT also reports that approximately 1.5 billion tons of hazardous materials are shipped each year [26]. The majority of the hazardous material shipped is classified as flammable liqui...

The transportation of hazardous materials is always accompanied by considerable risk that will impact public and environment security. As an efficient and reliable transportation organization, a multimodal service should participate in the transportation of hazardous materials. In this study, we focus on transporting hazardous materials through the multimodal service network and explore the haz...

This paper describes the application of multiobjective heuristic search algorithms to the problem of hazardous material (hazmat) transportation. The selection of optimal routes inherently involves the consideration of multiple conflicting objectives. These include the minimization of risk (e.g. the exposure of the population to hazardous substances in case of accident), transportation cost, tim...

This paper provides a comprehensive review in the domain of hazardous material transportation from an Operational Research point view. The paper's focus lies on hazmat routing, routing-scheduling, and network design problems. objective this is twofold: (1) reviewing models’ assumptions, objectives constraints, decisions, input parameters, basic modeling/solution techniques, case studies, (2) hi...

The transportation of hazardous goods represents an economic activity whose consequences can have serious impact on the safety of transportation, the environment and human health. With the aim of reviewing the elements that affect the activity, this article presents a model for the transportation of hazardous goods of which, generally, there are two forms: the theoretical model for the transpor...