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  title info:
    title: Handbook of OR/MS Models in Hazardous Materials Transportation
  name:
    name part: Batta, Rajan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kwon, Changhyun.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: V, 296 p. online resource.
  abstract: The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation defines hazardous materials (hazmat) as a substance or material capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or property when transported in commerce. Hazmat accidents can result in significant impact to the population (death, injuries) and damage to the environment (destroyed or damaged buildings and infrastructure). Further, hazmat, especially explosive materials, can potentially be used by terrorists to attack civilians or to destroy critical infrastructure. This handbook provides models from Operations Research and Management Science that study various activities involving hazmat transportation: risk assessment, route planning, location decisions, evacuation planning, and emergency planning for terrorist attacks. There are two important research areas in hazmat transportation that are widely studied in the literature: risk assessment and shipment planning. In the risk assessment area, important issues include measurement of accident probabilities and consequences in hazmat transport. Example works in the risk assessment area include modeling risk probability distribution over given areas, considering hazmat types and transport modes, and environmental conditions. The first half of this handbook covers the two fields of risk assessment and shipment planning, while the second half of this handbook provides useful models and insights on other important issues including location problems for undesirable facilities, network interdiction, terrorist attack, and evacuation.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Railroad Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Models for Risk Assessment & Management -- Operations Research Models for Global Route Planning in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- The Effect of Weather Systems in Hazmat Transportation Modeling -- Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk Models in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- Hazardous Facility Location Models on Networks -- Network Interdiction Methods and Approximations in a Hazmat Setting -- Optimal Emergency Resources Deployment under a Terrorist Threat: The Hazmat Case and Beyond -- The Role of OR in Emergency Evacuation from Hazmat Incidents.
  note: edited by Rajan Batta, Changhyun Kwon.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Transportation
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Operations Research, Management Science
  subject:
    topic: Transportation
  classification: HD30.23
  classification: 658.40301
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 193
  identifier: 9781461467946
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6794-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 130607
    record change date: 20151204153253.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-6794-6