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Risk Averse Routing of Hazardous Materials with Scheduled Delays

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Security and Environmental Sustainability of Multimodal Transport

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The term “risk-averse” in the routing of hazardous material is used for problems whose objective is to find the best and safest routes to connect various origin-destination (OD) pairs, taking into account the objective of minimizing either the maximum risk or the maximum exposure. In recent works, it has been demonstrated that for repeated shipments, where the accident probabilities over the various links in the network are unknown, the safest strategy is generally based on the use of a multiple routes for each OD pair. In this work, it is shown that further improvements can be made through scheduling the deliveries, that is, spreading the risk both in space and in time. The scheduling is particularly relevant when the vulnerability of the network is time-dependent.

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    This modelling assumption should not represent a limitation, since if a longer time is required to traverse a critical infrastructure, then it may be modelled by several links

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Acknowledgments

This work has been discussed in the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Security and Environmental Sustainability of Multimodal Transport”, Imperial College, London, 2009. The participation to the Workshop has been supported by NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.

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  1. DIST, Department of Communication Computer and System Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

    Chiara Bersani, Riccardo Minciardi, Angela Maria Tomasoni & Roberto Sacile

  2. University of Genova, via Opera Pia 13, 16145, Genova, Italy

    Chiara Bersani

  3. MINES Paris Tech – ARMINES, Ecole des Mines de Paris, CRC, Centre for Research on Risk and Crises, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Angela Maria Tomasoni

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  1. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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  2. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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Bersani, C., Minciardi, R., Tomasoni, A.M., Sacile, R. (2010). Risk Averse Routing of Hazardous Materials with Scheduled Delays. In: Bell, M., Hosseinloo, S., Kanturska, U. (eds) Security and Environmental Sustainability of Multimodal Transport. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8563-4_2

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