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- Title
Transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat) a literature survey.
- Authors
YILMAZ, Zafer; EROL, Serpil; APLAK, Hakan Soner
- Abstract
Transportation has a great role in logistics. Many researchers have studied on transportation and vehicle routing problems. Transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat) is a special subject for logistics. Causalities due to the accidents caused by trucks carrying hazardous materials will be intolerable. Many researchers have studied on risk assessment of hazmat transportation to find ways for reducing hazardous material transportation risks. Some researchers have studied routing of hazmat trucks. The emergency response models and network design problems for hazmat transportation were also studied by some researchers. The transportation of hazmats can also be classified according to the mode of transport. Mainly roads are used for hazmat transportation but some shipments are intermodal. There has been a great amount of effort spent to find convenient ways for hazmat transportation. In this study, a literature survey for the articles about hazmat transportation is prepared. After pointing out the importance of hazmat transportation by the example of US hazmat transportation data, the studies on hazmat transportation since 2005 have been examined. Totally 88 articles are classified as risk, routing, routing and scheduling, emergency response, network design and accident analysis. What can be studied in future researches is pointed out.
- Subjects
HAZARDOUS substance transportation; VEHICLE routing problem; EMERGENCY management; BUSINESS logistics; TRUCKS
- Publication
Pamukkale University Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2016, Vol 22, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1300-7009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/pajes.2016.62134