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TY - JOUR
T1 - Hazardous Materials Siting and Routing Decisions
T2 - Factors Affecting the Preferences of Fire Chiefs
AU - Zografos, Konstantinos
AU - Warkov, S.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - Hazardous materials routing and siting decisions are based on multiple objectives, which often conflict. These objectives usually express risk, cost, and equity criteria. Multicriteria decision-making models for hazardous materials routing and siting are available. A common characteristic of these models is the generation of noninferior solutions. A solution is noninferior if no other solution can improve one of the objectives without degrading at least one other objective. Given the fact that only one of the noninferior solutions can be selected, it is necessary at a certain point of the decision-making process to consider the preferences of the decision makers. The preferences of decision makers are affected by their expertise and other nontechnical factors. A telephone interview survey of fire department chiefs in 95 Connecticut cities and towns concerned tradeoffs between cost and safety of hazardous materials transportation and their preferences for hazardous materials storage facilities in rural areas. The survey identified factors affecting these preferences and indicated that community self-interest is one determinant of fire chiefs' preferences.
AB - Hazardous materials routing and siting decisions are based on multiple objectives, which often conflict. These objectives usually express risk, cost, and equity criteria. Multicriteria decision-making models for hazardous materials routing and siting are available. A common characteristic of these models is the generation of noninferior solutions. A solution is noninferior if no other solution can improve one of the objectives without degrading at least one other objective. Given the fact that only one of the noninferior solutions can be selected, it is necessary at a certain point of the decision-making process to consider the preferences of the decision makers. The preferences of decision makers are affected by their expertise and other nontechnical factors. A telephone interview survey of fire department chiefs in 95 Connecticut cities and towns concerned tradeoffs between cost and safety of hazardous materials transportation and their preferences for hazardous materials storage facilities in rural areas. The survey identified factors affecting these preferences and indicated that community self-interest is one determinant of fire chiefs' preferences.
KW - Alternatives analysis
KW - Consumer behavior
KW - Consumer preferences
KW - Costs
KW - Decision making
KW - Fire departments
KW - Handling and storage
KW - Hazardous materials
KW - Location
KW - Mathematical models
KW - Routing
KW - Safety
KW - Storage facilities
M3 - Journal article
SP - 24
EP - 28
JO - Transportation Research Record
JF - Transportation Research Record
SN - 0361-1981
IS - 1264
ER -