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Before Warning Bells Ring — Hazmat, Train Derailment Emergency Planning for Schools

March 1, 2022

Hazardous materials (hazmat) travel daily by road, rail, pipeline, waterway and air through the Lone Star State. Most transport vehicles safely arrive with their cargo. It’s when things go wrong — such as a hazmat incident or train derailment near a school — that a well-informed, thorough safety plan can save student, teacher and staff […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 1 Tagged With: emergency planning, hazardous materials, safety, Texas school districts, train derailment

TTI Conducts Eagle Ford HazMat, Truck Traffic Study in South Texas

May 3, 2013

In 1849 Sacramento Valley, California, it was gold. In 1901 Spindletop, Texas, it was black gold. And now, thanks to advances in hydraulic fracturing (commonly called “fracking”) of rock formations to enable access to crude oil and — the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas is already producing another energy boom for the Lone […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Eagle Ford Shale, emergency responders, energy impacts, hazardous materials, hazmat, Truck Traffic

Security Is More Than a State of Mind

December 1, 2010

“9/11 changed everything.” Nearly a decade after the deadliest foreign attack on American soil in our nation’s history, that phrase is almost a cliche. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it any less true. In medieval times, the main gate, or portcullis, was the most important part of a castle’s security. If the gate was breeched, enemy […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 46, Number 4 Tagged With: border security, crash testing, hazardous materials, homeland security, security

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