Improving Safety of Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Railway Transport
| Author(s): |
Nijolė Batarlienė
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| Medium: | journal article |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published in: | Infrastructures, July 2020, n. 7, v. 5 |
| Page(s): | 54 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/infrastructures5070054 |
| Abstract: |
The transport of dangerous goods by rail carries a high risk of accident and every effort should be made to ensure that such transport is carried out under the best possible safety conditions. The research objective was to analyze and identify the main risks associated with the transport of dangerous goods by rail as well as to identify and assess the main factors of safe transport in order to reduce the risk of accident. For this purpose, analysis of the literature, systematization, generalization, and evaluation by experts was applied. The article states that in order to ensure the safe transport of dangerous goods by rail, it is necessary to comply with the rules for loading and unloading dangerous goods, the established requirements and instructions, and technical conditions of wagons and their labelling as well as preventive measures to reduce the risk. Recommendations are provided on how to reduce accidents and incidents in the transport of dangerous goods by rail. |
| Copyright: | © 2020 the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
| License: | This creative work has been published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license which allows copying, and redistribution as well as adaptation of the original work provided appropriate credit is given to the original author and the conditions of the license are met. |
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