Using GIS in Risk Analysis: A Case Study of Hazardous Waste Transport

Lovett, Andrew A.; Parfitt, Julian; Brainard, Julii

doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00903.x

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“…GIS has been widely used in environmental modeling and risk assessment (Albertson et al 1993;Hiscock et al 1995;Lovertt et al 1997). GIS and environmental modeling developed separately, so their computer programs have very different data structures, functions, and methods for inputting and outputting spatial information.…”

Section: Gis and Risk Assessmentmentioning

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Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Khan

Owens

Bruce

et al. 2009

Environ Geochem Health

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Groundwater contaminated with arsenic (As), when extensively used for irrigation, causes potentially long term detrimental effects to the landscape. Such contamination can also directly affect human health when irrigated crops are primarily used for human consumption. Therefore, a large number of humans are potentially at risk worldwide due to daily As exposure. Numerous previous studies have been severely limited by small sample sizes which are not reliably extrapolated to large populations or landscapes. Human As exposure and risk assessment are no longer simple assessments limited to a few food samples from a small area. The focus of more recent studies has been to perform risk assessment at the landscape level involving the use of biomarkers to identify and quantify appropriate health problems and large surveys of human dietary patterns, supported by analytical testing of food, to quantify exposure. This approach generates large amounts of data from a wide variety of sources and geographic information system (GIS) techniques have been used widely to integrate the various spatial, demographic, social, field, and laboratory measured datasets. With the current worldwide shift in emphasis from qualitative to quantitative risk assessment, it is likely that future research efforts will be directed towards the integration of GIS, statistics, chemistry, and other dynamic models within a common platform to quantify human health risk at the landscape level. In this paper we review the present and likely future trends of human As exposure and GIS application in risk assessment at the landscape level.

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Section: Gis and Risk Assessmentmentioning

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Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Khan

Owens

Bruce

et al. 2009

Environ Geochem Health

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“…The present work focuses on liquid hazard transport, which is an issue well suited to being analysed in a GIS environment (Lovett et al, 1997). When an emergency occurs, as an accidental spill happens, due for example to the overturning of a tank lorry, a bottleneck is often not only the scarce information available, but also the ability to retrieve and manage it optimally to obtain quick responses, hence support decision making.…”

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CREGIS-Q: a GIS tool to support decision making in case of aquifer contamination emergency

Petrangeli

Preziosi

Campopiano

et al. 2016

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GIS technology has been used for many years in environmental risk analysis due to its capability to focus on the management and analysis of geographic and alphanumeric data to support spatial decision-making (Vairavamoorthy et al, 2007). Especially in emergency management, a DSS (Decision Support System) constitutes an important task to provide quick responses, though not completely exhaustive, to immediately handle a critical scenario and limit the possible damage. In the framework of a collaboration between the Water Research Institute and the National Civil Protection Department, a customized tool called CREGIS (ContaminazioneRisorseEvento-GIS) has been developed in order to facilitate the emergency management of accidental contamination of aquifers and support decision making (Preziosi et al, 2013). The tool is aimed at both national and local authorities in order to improve response capability for a better emergency management. Originally, the tool has been developed programming Python in an ArcGIS environment; but due to the great development and dissemination of open source software, our aim is to replicate the same structure programming Python in a GIS open source environment (QGIS). The review of the tool's code is still in progress. The goal is to make the tool (now named CREGIS-Q) free and accessible to a greater number of people and stakeholders

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“…Ayrıca, birçok çalışmada [16][17][18][19][20][21] CBS tehlikeli madde taşımacılığında risk analizi için kullanılmıştır. Yapılan çalışmalar genel olarak taşıma mesafesi ve maliyetini en aza indirme ve kaza durumunda etkilenen kişi sayısının minimize edilmesi konuları üzerinedir.…”

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Karayolu İle Tehli̇keli̇ Madde Taşimaciliği İçi̇n Coğrafi̇ Bi̇lgi̇ Si̇stemi̇ Destekli̇ Çevresel Ri̇sk Anali̇zi̇

Karabulut¹,

Ocalir-Akunal²

2015

Gazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi

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ÖZETKarayolu ile tehlikeli madde taşımacılığı hem birçok farklı aktörü içinde barındırması hem de her birinin farklı bir amacı bulunması sebebiyle özel bir taşıma türüdür. Bu çalışmada, akaryakıtların karayolu ile taşınması esnasında çevresel risklerin değerlendirilebilmesi için bir çevresel risk analiz modeli geliştirilmiştir. Geliştirilen model ile kaza durumunda olumsuz etkilenen çevresel öğeler (su ortamı, toprak ortamı ve özellikli alanlar) analiz edilebilmektedir. Modeli uygulama ve geliştirme aşamasında büyük ölçekli uygulamaları mümkün kılmak için Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemi (CBS)'den destek alınmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında tehlikeli madde türü olarak akaryakıt (benzin, motorin) ve LPG'nin karayolu ile taşıması incelenmiştir. Analitik Hiyerarşi Prosesi (AHP) kullanılarak model kapsamında incelenen her bir çevresel kriterin öncelik ağırlıkları bulunarak İzmir, Manisa, Aydın, Muğla, Denizli karayolu ağında modellerin uygulanmasına geçilmiştir. Uygulamada belirlenen kriterlere göre en uygun güzergâhın tespit edilmesi sağlanmıştır.Anahtar Kelimeler: Risk analizi, Analitik Hiyerarşi Prosesi (AHP), tehlikeli madde, akaryakıt, CBS GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ANALYSIS FOR ROAD TRANSPORTATION OF HAZMATS ABSTRACTRoad transportation of hazmats is special since it requires consideration of various actors who pursue different goals. In this study, an environmental risk analysis model is developed to help assess environmental risks for fuel products shipments. The study proposes a model to analyse the environmental consequences of accidents on the basis of the environmental elements, such as water element, soil element, and featured areas. In order to make large-scale implementations possible, GIS are utilized when using the existing models as well as during the development of the environmental risk analysis model. Transportation of liquid fuel (gasoline and diesel) and LPG are chosen as the main focus of this analysis. The priority weights of each environmental criteria entered into the model are calculated by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) before risk models are implemented in the road network of İzmir-Manisa-Aydın-Mugla-Denizli. The most convenient route according to the criteria set is determined after case study.

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Using GIS in Risk Analysis: A Case Study of Hazardous Waste Transport

Cited by 46 publications

References 11 publications

Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

Human arsenic exposure and risk assessment at the landscape level: a review

CREGIS-Q: a GIS tool to support decision making in case of aquifer contamination emergency

Karayolu İle Tehli̇keli̇ Madde Taşimaciliği İçi̇n Coğrafi̇ Bi̇lgi̇ Si̇stemi̇ Destekli̇ Çevresel Ri̇sk Anali̇zi̇

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