Risk Assessment for Hazardous Materials Transportation

The assessment of hazardous materials (HazMats) transport risk assumes a fundamental importance, especially in urban areas, in order to identify possible alternative routes and choose among these the route of minimum risk. It is necessary to appropriately integrate risk analysis with planning and transport management to prevent a potential danger being transformed into a real event. In the present study, we introduce a new decision model, calibrating weights for each choice criterion, for different stakeholders. A comparison with the approach of a different model proposed by the author (Leonardi, 2008) is presented.