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      Assessment of hazardous material risks for rail yard safety

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      Glickman, T. S.
      Erkut, E.
      Date
      2007
      Source Title
      Safety Science
      Print ISSN
      0925-7535
      Publisher
      Elsevier
      Volume
      45
      Issue
      7
      Pages
      813 - 822
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This paper illustrates the application of quantitative risk assessment in a rail yard where tank cars of hazardous materials are received and stored. The assessment was conducted in response to community concerns about the safety of a proposed yard expansion. Six different chemicals are involved. For each one, the average monthly volume and the hazard of most concern are specified. We use an event tree populated with empirical data to compute the probability of a major spill in each case and we estimate the corresponding critical impact distances using available modeling tools. We find that for some of the chemicals, the relative increases in risk are appreciable, but that in all cases, the absolute levels of risk remain low. Then we identify some ways in which such an analysis can be extended and discuss the potential difficulties associated with these extensions.
      Keywords
      Risk assessment
      Hazardous materials
      Transportation
      Rail road
      Rail yard
      Safety
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/11602
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.004
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