WIT Press


Risk Occurrence Measures For Dangerous Goods Goods Transport On A Road Network

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

134

Pages

11

Page Range

529 - 539

Published

2014

Size

793 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SAFE130471

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

F. Russo & C. Rindone

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze some measures of risk occurrence relative to Dangerous Goods Transport (DGT) in the context of Transportation Risk Analysis (TRA). An index is proposed starting from the international classification of DGT and uses some specific parameters to weight the distances traveled by DGT. Keywords: dangerous goods, road accident, risk analysis, occurrence, performance.

Keywords

dangerous goods, road accident, risk analysis, occurrence, performance