Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Methodological aspects for modeling the environmental risk of transporting hazardous materials by road |
Publication Type | Papers in International Journals |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Cordeiro F. G., Bezerra B. S., Peixoto A. S. P., and Ramos R. A. R. |
Abstract | The main objective of this paper is to establish the procedures necessary to the development of a model for the environmental risk assessment of accidents involving Transporting Hazardous Materials by Road (THMR). Quantifying the environmental risk is useful in identifying areas with a high risk of accidents, which can be later discarded as main routes; orienting efficient emergency response operations; and assessing policies aimed at reducing these risks. Taking this into consideration, this study endeavors to identify the methodological aspects make possible the assessment of the impacts that arise from accidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials by road and to implement such methodological aspects in a Geographic Information System (GIS). |
Journal | Transportation Research Part D:Transport and Environment |
Volume | 44 |
Pagination | 105–121 |
Date Published | 2016-07-01 |
Publisher | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ldt. |
ISSN | 1361-9209 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.trd.2016.02.008 |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2016.02.008 |
Keywords | Environmental risk, Geographic information system, Hazardous goods, Multicriteria evaluation, Risk modeling |
Rights | restrictedAccess |
Peer reviewed | yes |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 24 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt