An analytics approach to dis-aggregate national freight data to estimate hazmat traffic on rail-links and at rail-yards in Canada

Numerous research initiatives have been undertaken in the risk assessment and risk management of rail hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation. However, the true benefits could not be demonstrated because of the absence of rail-link and rail-yard level information about hazmat volume. We propose an analytics based methodology to estimate yard and link level data, which is applied to the railroad network in Canada. The proposed methodology …