Journal article
A cost and expected consequence approach to planning and managing railroad transportation of hazardous materials
Abstract
Although hazardous materials (hazmat) account for around 140million tons of all railroad freight traffic in the US, it has not received much attention from academic researchers. This is surprising especially when one considers the volume of hazmat moved by railroads in both North America and Europe. In this paper we develop a bi-objective optimization model, where cost is determined based on the characteristics of railroad industry and the …
Authors
Verma M
Journal
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 300–308
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.trd.2009.03.002
ISSN
1361-9209