Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation Defining the Need, Converging on Solutions -- Special Report 283 (2005) / Chapter Skim
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The public sector's role is equally important. With the exception of railroads, state and local governments own and operate much of the fixed transportation infrastructure on which these shipments pass, such as airports, seaports, rural farm roads, and Interstate highways.
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SOLUTIONS THROUGH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH Ensuring safety in a changing transportation environment requires vig ilance in detecting emerging problems and finding and implementing solutions. The fragmentation of the hazardous materials transportation sector, however, can mean that problems shared by many entities are 1 The full committee name is the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling.
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Many industry associations support coopera tive research projects on a periodic basis, and some, such as the Electric Power Research Institute started by the nation's electric utilities more than 30 years ago, have created large and lasting cooperative research organizations. A long-standing research program in the transportation field is the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, which was initiated more than 40 years ago by state highway and transportation departments seeking solutions to shared problems encountered in build ing, operating, and maintaining the nation's network of highways.
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, both previously housed within DOT, are now part of DHS, which creates an additional set of regulatory and institutional challenges. In this changing landscape, four of the federal agencies responsible for managing the risks associated with hazardous materials transportation- the Research and Special Programs Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, and USCG -- decided to sponsor this study to examine the idea of a cooper ative research program for hazardous materials transportation.
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It drew on its members' expertise and experience in the hazardous materials field to assess research needs and consider mod els for organizing a cooperative research program. It convened a work shop with participants from industry and government to discuss research needs, options for financing and structuring a cooperative program to meet these needs, and the prospects for generating suffi cient interest and support for such a program.
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Finally, Chapter 7 presents the committee's conclusions about the need for cooperative research on hazardous materials transportation, its vision for how a national cooperative research program might be orga nized to help address this need, and recommended next steps in bringing about such a program.
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