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Risk, Hazard, and Exposure Time in Hazmat Location and Routing

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Uncertainty in Facility Location Problems

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Hazardous materials such as fuel, solvents, organic waste from hospitals, used batteries, explosives, and nuclear waste need to be transported to and from the facilities that use, produce, and dispose of them. Managing these transports requires a design that alleviates negative effects of these activities, such as the loss of lives, environmental damage, and the destruction of property. Despite the large body of literature addressing numerous aspects regarding hazardous materials, there is no clear consensus on how potential adverse effects should be measured when optimizing facility location and route design. Our analysis commences with a look at the primary stakeholders in these activities: the population that is potentially affected by transportation, the firms that pay for it, and the government regulator, whose task is to protect the population at large. This chapter proposes two new indicators related to these activities, which are easy to compute, avoid the use of unreliable very low probability estimations, take care of the regulatory agencies and public concern, and, in our view, are more understandable to the public. Mathematical programming problems that integrate criteria for all stakeholders are formulated and solved. The methodology is then applied to a real case in order to determine an optimal transport route for the transport of hazardous materials in and out of the city of Santiago, Chile.

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Acknowledgments

This work was in part supported by FONDECYT grant 1220047; grants ANID PIA/PUENTE AFB220003; and Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN) ANID/FONDAP/15110017.

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  1. Engineering Sciences Department, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

    Andrés Bronfman

  2. School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

    Germán Paredes-Belmar

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), Santiago, Chile

    Vladimir Marianov

  4. Faculty of Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

    H. A. Eiselt

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Bronfman, A., Paredes-Belmar, G., Marianov, V., Eiselt, H.A. (2023). Risk, Hazard, and Exposure Time in Hazmat Location and Routing. In: Eiselt, H.A., Marianov, V. (eds) Uncertainty in Facility Location Problems. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 347. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32338-6_2

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