Print Email Facebook Twitter Safety Assessment of Trans-boundary and Multi-modal Hazardous Materials Transportation: Concept Development: The LPG and LNG cases Title Safety Assessment of Trans-boundary and Multi-modal Hazardous Materials Transportation: Concept Development: The LPG and LNG cases Author Dimitra Tasoula, I. Contributor Koornneef, F. (mentor) Reniers, G. (mentor) De Bruijne, M.L.C. (mentor) Rosmuller, N. (mentor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Safety & Security Science Group Programme Management of Technology Date 2015-12-14 Abstract Great amounts of hazardous materials are transported both inside and outside the countries, either in a single-mode or multi-modal way. This situation, in combination with the dangerous nature of hazardous materials and the severe consequences of an accident involving them, consist the transportation of hazardous materials a complex problem for which decisions, which will also consider the aspect of safety, must be made. Thus, the involved stakeholders to the transportation of hazardous materials need to incorporate risk assessment into the decision-making processes related to the international and multi-modal hazardous materials transportation. This stands especially for shipping companies, which are the actual responsible for the coordination of transport activities of hazardous materials. So far, a great number of regulations have been developed that govern the transportation of hazardous materials and a great number of risk management practices are used, particularly by shipping companies, in order to reassure the safe transportation of dangerous cargoes. Nevertheless, the role of the above mentioned regulations or the way the different risk management practices are involved in the decision-making processes related to the transportation of hazardous materials is unknown. Hence, this research seeks to develop a safety concept that will facilitate shipping companies in their decision-making processes related to the multi-modal and international hazardous materials transportation, by identifying the relation between risk assessment methods and decisions that need to be made by shippers. To reach this objective the following research question has been developed: “What safety assessment concept facilitates the decision-making of international and multi-modal hazardous materials transportation by shippers?” In order to answer this research question, both a literature study and an empirical case study take place. The literature study seeks to define the decisions that are involved in the decision-making process of shippers related to hazardous materials transportation, the role of the regulations in this process, the risk assessment practices that are currently used by shipping companies along with important indicators to them when safety related to the transportation of dangerous substances is assessed. Regarding to the empirical case study the decision-making process of Liquefied Gases shipping companies with regard to Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas in the Netherlands and Belgium is researched, in order to identify the same elements as the literature study. After the conduct of both the desk research and the empirical case study, the data gathered are analyzed and the results led to the identification of four elements of the concept, namely, Type of the Decisions under consideration, Criteria employed to evaluate Acceptability of Decisions, Type of Risk Assessment Methods and Results, Input data, and Characteristics of the System under Consideration. Moreover, the relation among these elements is identified and the safety concept is developed and described. Finally the development of the concept is followed by its validation through a series of interviews with the shipping companies interviewed in the first place. The analysis of the feedback interviews resulted in the validation of the concept and also leads to the identification of other factors that are important to the decision-making under research. These factors are mainly restricted to economical aspects. Finally through the feedback interviews missing elements of the concept are identified, thus providing recommendations for the future development of the concept. Subject hazardous materials transportationdecision makingmulti-modal transportationinternational transportationrisk assessment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6f3b55d6-412b-46c3-bfd1-4d2ec1dba0ad Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2015 Dimitra Tasoula, I. Files PDF Dimitra_Tasoula_4329597_F ... Report.pdf 2.59 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6f3b55d6-412b-46c3-bfd1-4d2ec1dba0ad/datastream/OBJ/view