An integrated information system for hazardous materials risk management

The production and transportation of hazardous materials is an unavoidable process in any industrial society. A number of industrial activities of vital economic importance are dependent on the uninterrupted flow of hazardous materials shipments. Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) technologies have the potential to support strategic, tactical, and continuous monitoring functions of risk management. The objective of this paper is to systematically present the state-of-the-art and the state-of-practice of the above mentioned technological achievements and to assess their importance in hazardous materials risk management.