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...

In this study, we applied Bayesian networks to prioritize the factors that influence hazardous material (Hazmat) transportation accidents. The Bayesian network structure was built based on expert knowledge using Dempster–Shafer evidence theory, and the structure was modified based on a test for conditional independence. We collected and analyzed 94 cases of Chinese Hazmat transportation acciden...

Unlike widely available literatures in hazardous material (HAZMAT) transportation that basically aim at finding non dominated paths for a given origin-destination pair, our main focus in this study is on vehicle routing problem with time window (VRPTW) aspect of HAZMAT transportation problem that has received very less attention in literatures. We present a new multi-objective optimization mode...

We describe a collaborative effort between the U.S., India, and Poland to track acute chemical releases during 2005-2007. In all three countries, fixed facility events were more common than transportation-related events; manufacturing and transportation/warehousing were the most frequently involved industries; and equipment failure and human error were the primary contributing factors. The most...

Bales of cotton were classified by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) code regulations as a flammable solid (Class 4.1), which required hazardous goods papers to accompany waterborne shipments. Various scientific investigations were conducted to evaluate the flammability hazard of bales of cotton to determine if this hazardous designation was valid. Cigarette (NFPA 261/ ASTM E1352), ...

Air transportation is an aviation system that involves many parties. Implementation of safety needs to be implemented in all sectors. This journal aimed find out whether the cargo hazardous materials or goods was meant, how duties and obligations airlines civil for aircraft, airline's responsibility dangerous aircraft. The type research this normative legal research. approach writing used law (...