Development and teaching of a graduate course in multimodal transportation safety and risk.
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2014-03-01
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Abstract:One of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)’s strategic goals is to enhance public health and
safety by working toward the elimination of transportation-related deaths and injuries. Near term
targets include reducing highway fatalities, rail-related accidents and incidents, and the number of
serious hazardous materials transportation incidents. Attaining the goal requires engineers to
understand the causal factors and risks in accidents, and determine the most effective ways of
mitigating the consequences of transportation accidents in all modes.
This project involved the development of teaching materials and the actual teaching of a course that
provides an introduction to transportation risk concepts, risk management framework and risk
assessment methodologies to address safety and security of freight and hazardous materials transport
by railways, roads, waterways and pipelines.
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