Introduction -- Railroad Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Models for Risk Assessment & Management -- Operations Research Models for Global Route Planning in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- The Effect of Weather Systems in Hazmat Transportation Modeling -- Value-at-Risk and...

This handbook provides sophisticated models for the study and analysis of activities involving the transportation of hazardous materials: risk assessment, shipment and route planning, decisions on location and emergency planning for terrorist attacks.

Potential consequences of disasters involve overwhelming economic losses, large affected populations and serious environmental damages. Given these devastating effects, there is an increasing interest in developing measures in order to diminish the possible impact of disasters, which gave rise...