CONCEPTUAL IDEA OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRASPORTATION ROUTING BY CONSIDERING RISK INDEX AS A COSTS COMPONENT
Watchara SATTAYAPRASERT, Wisinee WISETJINDAWAT, Dr. Pawinee IAMTRAKUL and Chatchawal SIMASKUL
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There are many problems existing in the Thailand’s logistics supply chain for hazardous
materials movement, especially for highway mode logistics. Moreover, these problems
are rather complicated in legal aspects, especially for transportation route selection and
permission. This research means to propose the concept of using road incident risk
index to be used as a component in selecting an appropriate route for hazardous material
logistics. The model of route assignment is applied based on the utility functions which
are composed of several criterions and parameters. Some information using in the
analysis of this model are collected from field experts, but the route selection model has
calculated with data in the factitious situation.