Risk Quantification for Environment Elements along the Traffic Route

Saska, Tomáš

doi:10.35182/tses-2012-0003

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“…A few other studies addressed specifically the quantification of the risk for the environment due to accidents in the transportation of hazardous substances. An approach to the quantification of risks to environmental components along transport routes using habitat values was proposed by Saska [8]. Similarly, the study by Macias and Gadzi ński [9] assessed the environmental value of individual areas that are at risk from road transport of hazardous substances.…”

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Integrated Environmental Risk Assessment of Major Accidents in the Transport of Hazardous Substances

et al. 2021

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At present, the environmental risk assessment of major accidents is mainly carried out for stationary risk sources. Only marginal attention is paid to mobile risk sources, while the currently available methodologies require a relevant expertise and time for their application, which is only partially possible in most scenarios. In the present study, an integrated approach to environmental risk assessment in the transport of hazardous substances (iTRANSRISK) was developed. The approach proposed is based on the principle of index-based assessment of leakage scenarios involving toxic and flammable substances during transport, in the context of indexing environmental vulnerability. The key point of the method is the conversion of local-specific data concerning the risk potential of the transported substance, the consequences and the probability of a major accident, and environmental vulnerability assessment into a single entity. The created integral approach is proposed for the needs of carriers of the hazardous substances and the state administration bodies. The proposed approach is determined for the screening risk assessment at the beginning of the process of the planning a suitable transport routes and the results are for information only. An example of the application of the iTRANSRISK integrated approach is demonstrated considering an explosion scenario following a propane tanker leak (18 t) in a forested area, with moderately susceptible soils and no surface water or groundwater affected.

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