Computer Operated SYSTEM P4-GEP for the Management of Risks and Road Transport Routes of Hazardous Products

The environmental agencies, the private sector, and the society as a whole have been showing a growing concern towards the transport of hazardous products, mainly on road systems, where the risk controls imposed by the activity are not proving to be effective. Accidents resulting from this transport activity have caused serious harm to human life, the public and private patrimony, the economic and social activities and the environment. There is, therefore, the need to plan actions to manage those risks. Bearing that in mind, these works have the purpose of presenting the use of a modular computer-operated system, called P4-GEP, to the management of risks and road transport routes for hazardous products, based on results obtained in the Risk Analysis Study (RAS) applied to the route of concern and on a relational database containing information on intrinsic aspects of the analyzed route. RAS is a consolidated method used to identify possible accidental scenarios, as well as the vulnerability of routes in terms of type of transported product in the event of accidents, promoting this way, the minimization and mitigation of its impacts. Information obtained based on this Risk Analysis Study, allied to primary and secondary data of the route and its surroundings allow for the creation of a relational database that constitutes the base of the computer-operated system P4-GEP that, integrating state-of-art technologies, incorporates features of planning, programming, monitoring, cost and risk analysis, reports and the control of emergencies and contingency in accidents involving loading, unloading and transport of chemicals and hazardous products. The application of system P4-GEP enables the management and sharing of such information with the stakeholders in the transport activity aiming at a higher efficiency in managing those risks.