Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings 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) to produce a set of integrated insights and understandings of the problems associated with the transportations of hazmats. The papers in this volume, originally presented at Hazmat Transport '91: A National Conference on the Transportation of Hazardous Materials and Wastes, 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 (HMTUSA). The book begins by explaining some of the important aspects of HMTUSA and other recent legislation dealing with the transport of hazmats. The book then considers the important ways in which industry has been attempting to deal with the risks involved with the transportation of hazardous materials. Finally, the book includes discussions of the law and economics, regulation, and cost issues involved in this subject.
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. Disclosure, Enforcement, and Compliance: A Shipper's Perspective on Compliance; D.A. Boyd. 2. Compliance and Enforcement Problems in Hazmat Transportation: will the Hazardous Materials Uniform Safety Act of 1990 make a Difference? W.E. Kenworthy. 3. International Standards and Docket No. HM-181; L.W. Bierlein. 4. Interagency Conflicts in the Regulation of Hazardous Materials in Transport: the Nuclear Materials Examples; M. Kassen. 5. An Economic Review of Monitored Retrievable Storage for Spent Nuclear Fuel; G. Rothwell. 6. Analyzing Routes for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials including Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel by Use of Effective Risk Estimation; P. Olekszyk. 7. Working together to Build a Safer Future; M. Abkowitz. 8. Multiobjective Policy Analysis of Hazardous Materials Routing; M.A. Turnquist, G.F. List. 9. Sitting Emergency Response Teams; Tradeoffs among Response Time, Risk, Risk Equity and Cost; G.F. List. 10. Databases and Needs for Risk Assessment of Hazardous Materials Shipments by Truck; A.G. Hobeika, S. Kim. 11. Uncertainty in the Estimation of Risks for the Transport of Hazardous Materials; F.F. Saccomanno, A. Stewart, J.H. Shortreed. 12. Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge; P. Slovic. 13. Risk Communication, Recreancy, and Organizational Effectiveness; L. Clarke, W.R. Freudenburg. 14. Risk, Loss and Liability in the Transportation of Hazardous Materials; M.S. Shapo. 15. The Law and Economics of Hazardous Materials Transportation: regulating Harm by Administrative Agency and Tort Liability; T.S. Ulen, C. Kolstad. 16. Annual License Fees and Other Charges for Road Transportation of Hazardous Materials; L.N. Moses, I. Savage. 17. Costing the Movement of Hazardous Materials by Rail; M.W. Tretheway, W.G. Waters II. 18. A Test of Market Behavior in the Transport of Petroleum and Liquid Hazardous Materials; R.R. Braeutigam, L.N. Moses. Index. Name Index.