Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches

Transporting of hazardous substance inviting a catastrophic potential, depending on the amount of transported product, its hazardous characteristics and the features of the surrounding environment. In view of the above Factors, an efficient intervention is essential to minimize the impacts from tran...

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Main Author: El-Harbawi, Mohanad
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Published: Science Alert 2010
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spelling my.utp.eprints.59532011-08-02T04:04:48Z Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches El-Harbawi, Mohanad TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Transporting of hazardous substance inviting a catastrophic potential, depending on the amount of transported product, its hazardous characteristics and the features of the surrounding environment. In view of the above Factors, an efficient intervention is essential to minimize the impacts from transportation hazards. This study will provide analytical techniques on estimation of hazardous risk from Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) transportation by integrating results from several risk consequences models to the latest Geographic Information System (GIS) tool. The advantage of this GIS map is that the point of accident can be moved to any location on it, hence a new result will be displayed for a new potential damage of LPG accident. Science Alert 2010-08-01 Article PeerReviewed El-Harbawi, Mohanad (2010) Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches. Journal of Applied Sciences, 10 (12). pp. 1157-1165. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/5953/
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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El-Harbawi, Mohanad
Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches
description Transporting of hazardous substance inviting a catastrophic potential, depending on the amount of transported product, its hazardous characteristics and the features of the surrounding environment. In view of the above Factors, an efficient intervention is essential to minimize the impacts from transportation hazards. This study will provide analytical techniques on estimation of hazardous risk from Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) transportation by integrating results from several risk consequences models to the latest Geographic Information System (GIS) tool. The advantage of this GIS map is that the point of accident can be moved to any location on it, hence a new result will be displayed for a new potential damage of LPG accident.
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author El-Harbawi, Mohanad
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title Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches
title_short Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches
title_full Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches
title_fullStr Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches
title_full_unstemmed Assessment on the Consequences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches
title_sort assessment on the consequences of liquefied petroleum gas release accident in the road transportation via gis approaches
publisher Science Alert
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/5953/
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