Today I kept working on the second presentation. Following a previous recommendation of Xiang, I decided to add a couple of slides to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the consequences of crude oil rail transportation accidents. To do so I will list the most important accidents and I will very briefly review two of them. I have been reading about the recent Canadian accident in order to include this as one of the examples. I am aware of the fact that this accident has not occur in U.S, however, as it is one of the worst disasters regarding crude oil rail transportation its review will be worth it.
In addition, I downloaded the PHMSA crude oil rail accident database. I spent the entire afternoon working on it. I have about 300 incidents,some of them are duplicates as each tank car is reported individually. I am working on erasing these duplicates and also on locating those accidents in GIS. I plan on finishing this analysis tomorrow. I think it would be very interesting to see where these accidents have occured and if this location has any relationship with the associated cost of the accident.
Today:
-Fisnish presentation 2: Rail Hazardous Materials Transportation (to be finished)
-Start presentation 4: Case study introduction, justification (no time)
-Literature review on the evaluation and analsyis of crude oil transportation risk (to be finished)
-Attend the RailTEC weekly lunch meeting (Brandon's Presentation) (done)
*-Work with the PHMSA Hazardous Materials incident database (to be finished)
Next day:
-Fisnish presentation 2: Rail Hazardous Materials Transportation
-Start presentation 4: Case study introduction, justification
-Literature review on the evaluation and analsyis of crude oil transportation risk
-Work with the PHMSA Hazardous Materials incident database
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