Decision support systems for assessing risks involved in transporting hazardous materials: A review

Road accidents are a major societal issue for every country. The purpose of this paper is to assess the number of traffic and road accidents depending on a series of variables (collision mode, road configuration, conditions of occurrence, road category, type of vehicle involved, personal factors, and length of time of the driving license) in Romania from 2012-2016. The analysis of the road accident trend identifies the causes of accidents, road safety performance indicators, and risk indicators. Having these identified data, a framework is proposed for improving the road safety system and reducing accidents. The Romanian Police, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) in Romania, and the European Commission provided the data used for this analysis. The data obtained from these databases are analysed and evaluated according to a series of variables. This paper will outline an informative image of road accidents and establish a framework for reducing their effects in road transport. As a result of the analysis, we have seen that the combination of vehicles and personal factors influences the number of traffic and road accidents.

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“…The length time of the driving license highlights that human experience contributes to increasing positive results [34][35][36].…”

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Risk Indicators and Road Accident Analysis for the Period 2012–2016

Cioca

Ivaşcu

2017

Sustainability

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“…A unique aspect of our paper's contribution to the literature and practice is the potential for trade-offs between multiple risk factors. As noted by [19], the risk incurred in hazardous materials routing is complex and can manifest itself across several potential dimensions. Our work considers three key sources of risk with its accident-, population-, and distance-based measures.…”

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“…A decision-maker faced with a hazardous materials routing problem could use our model to understand the trade-offs between the different risk factors facing them, thus allowing them to make a more informed decision. Additionally, augmenting our work is the fact that we use a finely tuned geographic approach to model population risk [25] with dasymetric modeling, as opposed to a coarser approach [19]. This level of specificity is likely to improve the accuracy of our modeling over prior approaches.…”

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“…At present, much of the literature has focused on either the direct costs of hazardous materials transportation or quantifying possible losses in the event of an accident. The state-of-the-art approaches to routing often treat risk as a single measure, if risk is considered at all [19]. However, in practice, risk is multi-faceted, and decision-makers are often faced with tradeoffs between several risk factors.…”

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Minimizing the Risks of Highway Transport of Hazardous Materials

Goldberg

Hong

2019

Sustainability

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Many key industrial and scientific processes, such as the generation of nuclear energy, are of enormous social benefit as energy demand and consumption grow over time. However, a drawback of several such processes is the production of hazardous waste materials, which often requires transportation along highway networks to treatment or disposal facilities. This waste can represent a safety hazard to civilians located along the transportation route. Most prior literature in this domain considers risk within only a single facet, and thus several important risk factors may not be considered. In our paper, we propose a multi-objective program to allow for the analysis and selection of minimally risky routes for hazardous materials transportation. The model assesses risk factors including the length of the selected route, the total population in areas surrounding the selected route, and the likelihood of an accident occurring along the selected route. Our paper uniquely uses geographic information systems (GIS) technology to model this optimization problem. This approach allows us to model risk along multiple dimensions simultaneously. We collect empirical data to test the model and present a case study for risk mitigation using a study area located in California. We show that our multi-objective approach is effective in presenting the decision-maker with a portfolio of solutions that perform well via each factor.

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“…Analyzing the situation of people killed in road accidents in Romania we can say that it is a positive evolution during the last years. Other researches [7] shows also that the risks of transportation depend on the characteristics of the road network such as road type, weather conditions, drivers' skills, and population concentration along the chosen routes.…”

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An empirical analysis of the relation between infrastructure and road accidents

Lobonţ

Tarnu

2017

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. The concern for road safety in Europe is growing bigger. European Union by its means promote the aim of reducing the number of victims of traffic accidents by half in the period 2011-2020. In order to achieve this objective a lot of actions should be developed. One of our concern is the development of the infrastructure, mainly building motorways. Our research aims to study the relation between infrastructure -motorway versus highway and road accidents. Our findings show that is a great relationship between uses of motorways and reducing the number of accidents.

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Decision support systems for assessing risks involved in transporting hazardous materials: A review

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Risk Indicators and Road Accident Analysis for the Period 2012–2016

Risk Indicators and Road Accident Analysis for the Period 2012–2016

Minimizing the Risks of Highway Transport of Hazardous Materials

An empirical analysis of the relation between infrastructure and road accidents

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