Análise do risco de transporte de produtos perigosos nas rodovias Régis Bittencourt e do corredor Dom Pedro no estado de São Paulo, à sua população lindeira e possibilidade de escolha de rotas alternativas

Abstract

The use of chemical products and dangerous chemicals, known as hazardous materials or hazmats, increased with the development around the world. The industrial poles that consume these products have spread through developed and developing countries, including Brazil. This resulted in a growing quantity of chemicals and hazardous products transported on the streets, avenues and highways of the country. An immediate result was an expansion of road transportation of these substances, the increase of accidents with hazmat transportation and consequent rising in the risk to the highway and to the nearby population with these accidents. Considering the above, national and international literature was researched with the objective to find for tools that can make an analysis and evaluation of the risk to the highway and population living near these accidents with hazmat, besides the possibility of choice for other rotes as form of prevention to these accidents and a decrease in risk and cost. It was used four mathematical equations that were able to be analyzed through the data provided by two active highway concessionaires in São Paulo state, the concessionaire Auto Pista Arteris Régis Bittencourt (Régis Bittencourt highway) and the concessionaire Rota das Bandeiras (Corredor Dom Pedro, a set of highways from the city of Campinas, which the main highway is Dom Pedro I). These information, though they were not complete, in the sense that they were not totally provided as requested, were able to be applied in the mathematical equations. Despite some limitations, the resulting evaluation showed that these mathematical sentences can be utilized in highway and nearby population risk analysis and for the possibility of the choice for new routes, but it also requires an improvement of the database, especially the public and highway concessionaire databases.