Quantitative Risk Assessment of Hazardous Materials Transport Systems: Rail, Road, Pipelines and Ship

Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all countries. In a given region, old and new plants, processes, and technologies have to coexist Technological penetration and substitution processes are generally taking place; they are entirely dynamic and this trend is going to stay like this. People's health and the environment can be affected, directly or indirectly, by rou­ tine waste discharges or by accidents. A series of recent major industrial acciden...