2 . I N T R O DUCTION

Close to 0 million shipments

of hozmdous materials traverse the United States daily}]Jl Hozmot shipments

vary

widely in terms of content, size and weight. The transportation modes at shipping hozwdous motetiolts oaltso voary.

Hazeldous

materials are transported vio highway, roll, air, and waterways, 05 well as by pipelines. According to the FMCSA, roughly 95 percent oft U.S. hozmot shipments arte tronspo•ed by trucks on highways and roaddss.‘.1" Also, slightly more than

half the hozmot tonnage significant

and the efficient, economic passage of the FMCSA and the PHMSA - consider

safety

goods and to be

commerce are high priorities, MDOT and a paramount consideration when it comes

to transportation

of —hazardous

materials. Thus, like-0" states

nation,a
in the nation, the State of

Michigan mandates specific

Existing hazardous materials routes were established in Michigan on Nov. 1 4, 1994, and were subsequently reported

to the FHWA on March 8, 1995. All ensuing touting on

designations and restrictions/requirements for transportation o0ft

NRHM in Michigan

have been established in accordance with regulations.

key

objective

of

materials routing that as well as providing include whethet:

this synopsis report is

about

the

process for hazardous

includes conducting

possible changes,

to

to

provide

public information

about

the required recommendations

and teloling

evaluating studies

and analyses

relative to to

In

summary,

this

synopsis report:

For hazardous materials routing and MDOT's

“Noatlionoal Research Council, Transportoatlion Research Board. Special Report 283, Cooperrat•ive De•ning the Need, Converging on Solutlions, Washington, DC. 2005.

Research for hazardous Materials Transsppoor•tat•ion:

FR DOC 02-25226, Depptt. of Transporltartion, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administratlion

5U.S. Department of Transportlatiion, Research and Innovative Technology Adminiisttrraat•ion (RITA), Bureau ofTransporntatlion Hazardous Materials Highlightls - 2007 Commoditly Flow Survey, Washington, DC. January 20] I.