Risk Based HazMat Routing In a Supply Chain Network

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2014

School

Construction and Design

Abstract

Hazardous Material (HazMat) transportation is a heavily regulated process due to safety issue and detrimental environmental impact of potential incidents. Route selection is an important part of HazMat supply chain transportation planning. Industries worldwide must adhere with the regulations and transport code to ship HazMat. This paper introduces several HazMat transportation risk factors with regard to social, environmental, and sustainability features. Using these risk factors, the study demonstrates network risk of HazMat transportation from a point of origin to the destination as compared to non-hazardous material. While there are added risks of HazMat transport, transportation cost is higher due to finding safety route and avoid high risk zone and the likelihood of accidents in a route. Like others, HazMat routing is selected primarily based on shortest distance and shortest transport time to minimize the cost of shipment. In addition to those factors, HazMat routing also depends on risk factors associated with routes. This paper proposes a risk quantification method and integrating that into the route selection process. A case study demonstrates the proposed routing.

Publication Title

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2014

First Page

3773

Last Page

3782

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