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      Designing emergency response networks for hazardous materials transportation

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      Author(s)
      Berman O.
      Verter V.
      Kara, B.Y.
      Date
      2007
      Source Title
      Computers and Operations Research
      Print ISSN
      0305-0548
      Volume
      34
      Issue
      5
      Pages
      1374 - 1388
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Undesirable consequences of dangerous goods incidents can be mitigated by quick arrival of specialized response teams at the accident site. We present a novel methodology to determine the optimal design of a specialized team network so as to maximize its ability to respond to such incidents in a region. We show that this problem can be represented via a maximal arc-covering model. We discuss two formulations for the maximal arc-covering problem, a known one and a new one. Through computational experiments, we establish that the known formulation has excessive computational requirements for large-scale problems, whereas the alternative model constitutes a basis for an efficient heuristic. The methodology is applied to assess the emergency response capability to transport incidents, that involve gasoline, in Quebec and Ontario. We point out the possibility of a significant improvement via relocation of the existing specialized teams, which are currently stationed at the shipment origins. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
      Keywords
      Emergency response
      Geographical information systems
      Hazardous materials
      Maximal cover
      Transportation
      Accident prevention
      Computational methods
      Gasoline
      Hazardous materials
      Heuristic methods
      Large scale systems
      Mathematical models
      Optimal control systems
      Problem solving
      Risk assessment
      Emergency response
      Geographical information systems
      Maximal cover
      Optimal design
      Radioactive waste transportation
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/23478
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2005.06.006
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