Facility Location and Reliable Route Planning in Hazardous Material Transportation

Mary E. Helander and Emanuel Melachrinoudis
Additional contact information
Mary E. Helander: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Computer & Information Science, Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
Emanuel Melachrinoudis: Department of Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA

Transportation Science, 1997, vol. 31, issue 3, 216-226

Abstract: This paper considers integrated location and routing models for minimizing the expected number of hazardous material transport accidents. Two different routing policies are considered: (1) most reliable route planning and (2) multiple routing with random selection. Path reliability measurements are used to derive the expected number of accidents over a given planning horizon, where reliability refers to the probability of completing a journey without accident. Corresponding to the two routing policies, two location models are introduced: the reliable 1-median and a location framework for considering multiple routes. Based on realistic assumptions for assigning accident probabilities to segments created when an edge location is considered, vertex optimality results for both problems are obtained. An example to illustrate reliable routing and location in Massachusetts is provided.

Date: 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.31.3.216 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:31:y:1997:i:3:p:216-226

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Transportation Science from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().