Chapter 11 Siting of hazardous facilities

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the features of the siting problem that have made it difficult to find a home for noxious facilities and then proposes a set of guidelines for improving the process. The siting process involves global benefits and local costs and, typically, considerable uncertainties. The methodologies that are designed to improve siting outcomes must be coordinated carefully with a broader process view of siting. Hazardous materials transportation problems in the OR literature involve the determining of optimal routing and transport modes to minimize several criteria involving expected cost and consequences of accidents. The chapter provides an overview of recent research on the nature of the hazardous facility siting problem and related transportation problems with a focus on route-mode selection issues, facility location models and decision analysis for choosing between predetermined sites. Decision analysis (DA) has proven to be a useful approach for structuring the siting problem. The facility siting literature for hazardous or noxious facilities, including simultaneous choice of routing and facility choices is also reviewed in the chapter.

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