Transportation of Hazardous Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Disclosure, Enforcement and Compliance: A Shipper’s Perspective on Compliance

   • Don A. Boyd

   Pages 1-16

3. Compliance and Enforcement Problems in Hazmat Transportation: Will the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990 Make a Difference?

   • William E. Kenworthy

   Pages 17-38

4. International Standards and Docket No. HM-181

   • Lawrence W. Bierlein

   Pages 39-46

5. Interagency Conflicts in the Regulation of Hazardous Materials in Transport: The Nuclear Materials Example

   • Melinda Kassen

   Pages 47-61

6. An Economic Review of Monitored Retrievable Storage for Spent Nuclear Fuel

   • Geoffrey Rothwell

   Pages 63-76

7. Analyzing Routes for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials Including Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel by Use of Effective Risk Estimation

   • Phillip Olekszyk

   Pages 77-84

8. Working Together to Build a Safer Future

   • Mark Abkowitz

   Pages 85-101

9. Multiobjective Policy Analysis of Hazardous Materials Routing

   • Mark A. Turnquist, George F. List

   Pages 103-116

10. Siting Emergency Response Teams: Tradeoffs Among Response Time, Risk, Risk Equity and Cost

    • George F. List

    Pages 117-133

11. Databases and Needs for Risk Assessment of Hazardous Materials Shipments by Trucks

    • Antoine G. Hobeika, Sigon Kim

    Pages 135-157

12. Uncertainty in the Estimation of Risks for the Transport of Hazardous Materials

    • F. F. Saccomanno, A. Stewart, J. H. Shortreed

    Pages 159-182

13. Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge

    • Paul Slovic

    Pages 183-199

14. Risk Communication, Recreancy, and Organizational Effectiveness

    • Lee Clarke, William R. Freudenburg

    Pages 201-213

15. Risk, Loss and Liability in the Transportation of Hazardous Materials

    • Marshall S. Shapo

    Pages 215-237

16. The Law and Economics of Hazardous Materials Transportation: Regulating Harm by Administrative Agency and Tort Liability

    • Thomas S. Ulen, Charles Kolstad

    Pages 239-258

17. Annual License Fees and Other Charges for Road Transportation of Hazardous Materials

    • Leon N. Moses, Ian Savage

    Pages 259-275

18. Costing the Movement of Hazardous Materials by Rail

    • Michael W. Tretheway, W. G. Waters II

    Pages 277-294

19. A Test of Market Behavior in the Transport of Petroleum and Liquid Hazardous Materials

    • Ronald R. Braeutigam, Leon N. Moses

    Pages 295-309

20. Back Matter

    Pages 311-319

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Leon N. Moses In June 1991, the Transportation Center at Northwestern University sponsored Hazmat Transport '91: A National Conference on the Transportation of Hazardous Materials and Wastes. The faculty associated with the center were aware that there had been many professional, industrial and government conferences and meetings on the subject. However, they believed that the unique capacity of the Transportation Center to bring together leaders from industry and government, as well as leading scholars from economics, law, engineering, psychology and sociology who have done research on the problems associated with the transportation of hazardous materials and wastes (hazmats), could produce a set of integrated insights and understandings that would go well beyond those of previous conferences. The papers that make up this volume were all delivered at Hazmat Transport '91. From a legislative point of view, they tend to deal with issues associated with the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 1975 (HMTA), the original act passed to regulate the transportation of hazardous materials, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990 (HMTVSA). There were talks and papers presented at the conference that focused on other recent legislation and transportation issues with which HMTUSA does not deal. The conference proceedings volume also had discussions and papers on significant managerial and regulatory issues that could not be included in this volume because of constraints on its size. Therefore, this essay is made up of three parts.

• assessment
• economics
• organization
• policy
• psychology
• radioactive waste
• safety
• sociology

• Northwestern University, USA

  Leon N. Moses

• Transportation Center, Northwestern University, USA

  Dan Lindstrom

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