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Examining Rail Transportation Route of Crude Oil in the United States Using Crowdsourced Social Media Data
Abstract
Safety issues associated with transporting crude oil by rail have been a concern since the boom of the U.S. domestic shale oil production in 2012. During the last decade, over 300 crude-oil-by-rail incidents have occurred in the United States. Some of them have caused adverse consequences including fire and hazardous materials leakage. However, only limited information on crude-on-rail routes and their associated risks is available to the public. To this end, this study proposed an unconventional way to reconstruct crude-on-rail routes using geotagged photos harvested from the Flickr website. The proposed method linked the geotagged photos of crude oil trains posted online with national railway networks to identify potential railway segments that those crude oil trains were traveling on. Here, a shortest path-based method was applied to infer the complete crude-on-rail routes, by utilizing the confirmed railway segments as well as their directional information. Validation of the inferred routes was performed using a public map and official crude oil incident data. The results suggested that the inferred routes based on geotagged photos had high coverage, with approximately 96% of the documented crude oil incidents aligned with the reconstructed crude-on-rail network. The inferred crude oil train routes were found to passmore »
- Authors:
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- Chang’an University, Xi’an, Shanxi (China); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1975368
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2678; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0361-1981
- Publisher:
- SAGE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; Rail transportation; Crude oil; Flickr; Geotagged photo; Inferring route; Hazmat transportation
Citation Formats
Liu, Yuandong, Uddin, Majbah, Chin, Shih-Miao, Hwang, Ho-Ling, and Chen, Jiaoli. Examining Rail Transportation Route of Crude Oil in the United States Using Crowdsourced Social Media Data. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.1177/03611981231170632.
Liu, Yuandong, Uddin, Majbah, Chin, Shih-Miao, Hwang, Ho-Ling, & Chen, Jiaoli. Examining Rail Transportation Route of Crude Oil in the United States Using Crowdsourced Social Media Data. United States. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231170632
Liu, Yuandong, Uddin, Majbah, Chin, Shih-Miao, Hwang, Ho-Ling, and Chen, Jiaoli. Mon .
"Examining Rail Transportation Route of Crude Oil in the United States Using Crowdsourced Social Media Data". United States. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231170632.
@article{osti_1975368,
title = {Examining Rail Transportation Route of Crude Oil in the United States Using Crowdsourced Social Media Data},
author = {Liu, Yuandong and Uddin, Majbah and Chin, Shih-Miao and Hwang, Ho-Ling and Chen, Jiaoli},
abstractNote = {Safety issues associated with transporting crude oil by rail have been a concern since the boom of the U.S. domestic shale oil production in 2012. During the last decade, over 300 crude-oil-by-rail incidents have occurred in the United States. Some of them have caused adverse consequences including fire and hazardous materials leakage. However, only limited information on crude-on-rail routes and their associated risks is available to the public. To this end, this study proposed an unconventional way to reconstruct crude-on-rail routes using geotagged photos harvested from the Flickr website. The proposed method linked the geotagged photos of crude oil trains posted online with national railway networks to identify potential railway segments that those crude oil trains were traveling on. Here, a shortest path-based method was applied to infer the complete crude-on-rail routes, by utilizing the confirmed railway segments as well as their directional information. Validation of the inferred routes was performed using a public map and official crude oil incident data. The results suggested that the inferred routes based on geotagged photos had high coverage, with approximately 96% of the documented crude oil incidents aligned with the reconstructed crude-on-rail network. The inferred crude oil train routes were found to pass through several metropolitan areas of high population density, who were exposed to potential risk. These findings could improve situational awareness for policy makers and transportation planners. In addition, with the inferred routes, this study has established a good foundation for future crude oil train risk-analyses along the rail route.},
doi = {10.1177/03611981231170632},
journal = {Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board},
number = 1,
volume = 2678,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Mon May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}
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