Transportation of hazardous materials : issues in law, social science, and engineering.

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Papers presented at Hazmat Transport '91, a conference sponsored by the Transportation Center at Northwestern University in June 1991

Disclosure, enforcement and compliance: a shipper's perspective on compliance; Compliance and enforcement problems in Hazmat transportation: will the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniforma Safety Act of 1990 make a difference?; International standards and docket no. HM-181; Interagency conflicts in the regulation of hazardous materials in transport: the nuclear materials example; An economic review of monitored retrievable storage for spent nuclear fuel; Analyzing routes for the transportation of hazardous materials including radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel by use of effective risk estimation; Working together to build a safer future; Multiobjective policy analysis of hazardous materials testing; Siting emergency response teams: tradeoffs among response time, risk, risk equity and cost; Databases and needs for risk assessment of hazardous materials shipments by truck; Uncertainty in the estimation of risks for the transport of hazardous materials; Perceptions of risk: paradox and challenge; Risk communication, recreancy and organizational effectiveness; Risk, loss and liability in the transportation of hazardous materials; The law and economics of hazardous materials transportation: regulating harm by administrative agency and tort liability; Annual license fees and other charges for road transportation of hazardous materials; Costing the movement of hazardous materials by rail; A test of market behavior in the transport of petroleum and liquid hazardous materials