Book Description

This proceedings contains papers presented at the specialty conference Stat end Local Issues in Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Toward a National Strategy held on May 14-16, 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri. The papers span a wide spectrum of technical, regulatory, and policy aspects of hazardous materials transportation. The papers are organized into the following five thematic areas: 1) legislative issues, 2) risk perception, 3) database development, 4) risk assessment/routing, and 5) risk management and advanced technologies. Within these broad categories, such topics as the need for local control, the design of protective systems into highways systems, the use of information to assess accident trends, the importance of individual and societal risk analysis in decision making, and the development of computer software to assist in routing hazardous materials are explored.