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Gis-Based Route Risk Assessment Of Hazardous Material Transport, Myungwoo Lee
Gis-Based Route Risk Assessment Of Hazardous Material Transport, Myungwoo Lee
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The transportation of hazardous materials keeps increasing across the United States due to the growing consumption of goods and rising need for manufactured materials. Furthermore, concerns are mounting over the safe surface transportation of hazardous materials. Highways and rails are the most common modes of transport for hazardous materials, although the risk posed from highway transport of hazardous materials may be higher due to the fact that highways are public while rails are mostly private. The majority of hazardous material cargo is carried on the highway network by trucks. Due to possible adverse effects on human and animal populations in …