Advanced Technologies and Methodologies for Risk Management in the Global Transport of Dangerous Goods (Nato Science for Peace and Security)

IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences Title page......Page 1 Preface......Page 5 Introduction......Page 7 Contents......Page 11 Part I. State of the Art on Risk Assessment......Page 13 Assessment of Risk and Accident Impacts Related to Dangerous Goods Transport in a Dense Urbanized Area......Page 15 Hazardous Materials Transportation: A Literature Review and an Annotated Bibliography......Page 45 Hazardous Materials Transportation by Road: Trends and Problems in Risk Assessment and Emergency Planning......Page 75 Safety in Hazardous Material Road Transportation: State of the Art and Emerging Problems......Page 100 Part II. Risk Management and Control......Page 143 Finding Solutions to Mixed Route Strategies for Transporting Hazardous Materials......Page 145 The Trade-Offs in Rail-Truck Intermodal Transportation of Hazardous Materials: An Illustrative Case Study......Page 160 Modeling a Real Time Mobile Information System for HazMat Telegeomonitoring......Page 181 Sustainable Distribution of Petrol Products to Service Stations Based on Demand Forecast, Inventory and Transportation Costs......Page 206 A GIS-Based Multi-Objective Travel Planner for Hazardous Material Transport in the Urban Area of Milan......Page 229 Part III. Applications......Page 249 Risk Assessment for Coupled Critical Infrastructures......Page 251 The Ukrainian Response System for Event of Accidents in Radioactive Material Transportation......Page 261 An Integrated System for the Hazardous Materials Transport in a Sub-Regional Scale Area......Page 273 The Challenges of Transport of Radioactive Materials and Wastes in Albania......Page 296 Thermoeconomical Optimization of Net for Energy Resources Transportation......Page 302 Traffic Optimization in Hazardous Materials Transport on Roads Flowing Towards One Critical Infrastructure......Page 321 Conclusions......Page 337 Dangerous Goods Transportation and Related Research Challenges in the Human and Societal Dynamics......Page 339 Subject Index......Page 343 Author Index......Page 345 Logistics has become a strategic factor for development and competition. Terrorist attacks, such as 11th of September 2001 in the USA, have caused the introduction of rules and procedures, which affect the overall logistics showing the vulnerability of the global economy. This book presents the status of research on dangerous goods transport.