Abstract:

Today, hazardous materials’ transportation is one of the important issues that must be taken into consideration in order to ensure the safety of life and property and to carry out operations without any interruption. With the increasing level of industrialization, it has become more important to move hazardous materials, which have begun to be used more frequently, safely from one point to another. Although all transportation modes are used effectively in the hazardous materials’ transportation, mostly the roads are used.  For this reason, by taking into consideration the risk, involved in hazardous materials, they require more rigorous transportation and more effective risk management. In this study, it is aimed to determine the most appropriate route for the hazardous materials’ transportation in a cost effective, safe and uninterrupted manner.  In this context, face-to-face meeting has been held with the managers of a company transporting hazardous materials between Gaziantep and Erzurum provinces, and the hazardous materials’ transportation routes are selected by SMAA-2 method.   

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