This handbook provides sophisticated models for the study and analysis of activities involving the transportation of hazardous materials: risk assessment, shipment and route planning, decisions on location and emergency planning for terrorist attacks.

Although several books or monographs on multiobjective optimization under uncertainty have been published, there seems to be no book which starts with an introductory chapter of linear programming and is designed to incorporate both fuzziness and randomness into multiobjective programming in a...

The Analytic Network Process -- Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgement Approach -- An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting -- Outsourcing a Firm's Application Development Group -- ANWR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge, an ANP...

The Design of Manufacturing Systems to Cope with Variability -- Modeling Automated Warehouses Using Semi-Open Queueing Networks -- Exact Analysis of Discrete Part Production Lines -- Models of Leveling for Lean Manufacturing Systems -- Value of Advance Demand Information in Production and...

The Exponential Distribution and the Poisson Process -- Introduction to Renewal Theory -- Introduction to Markov Chains -- From Single Server Queues to M/G/1 -- Priorities and Scheduling in M/G/1 -- M/G/1 Using Markov Chains and LSTs -- The G/M/1 Queueing System -- Continuous-time Markov Chains...

Introduction -- Railroad Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Models for Risk Assessment & Management -- Operations Research Models for Global Route Planning in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- The Effect of Weather Systems in Hazmat Transportation Modeling -- Value-at-Risk and...

Modeling Patient Flows Through the Healthcare System -- Interdependency of Hospital Departments and Hospital-Wide Patient Flows -- Hospitals and Clinical Facilities, Processes and Design for Patient Flow -- Emergency Department Crowding, The Nature of the Problem and Why it Matters -- The...