2017 - 96th annual meeting

Transportation and Energy Networks: Planning for the Future

Regulatory and technological changes affect energy supply chains and transportation networks. This workshop examines transportation network gaps, opportunities, and risks. Participants will explore ways to preserve existing energy corridors in transition and supply chain transportation requirements for new energy networks.

Session 1: Energy Transportation Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities

Elizabeth (Libby) Ogard, Prime Focus, LLC

P17-20244

The Energy Supply Chain Landscape: New Networks, New Data

Taylor Robinson, PLG Consulting

P17-20245

The Impact of Energy Transformation on the Rail Network

Clarence Gooden, CSX Corporation, Inc.

P17-20246

Delivering the Final Mile in the Energy Transportation Network

Erik Johnson, Canopy Prospecting Inc

P17-21737

Session 2: Operating Safe and Sustainable Rail Transportation Networks

Richard Bornhorst, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

P17-20248

Overview of Transportation Safety

Phani Raj, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)

P17-20249

Modeling Hazardous Material Networks

Albert Drummond, Oracle Corporation

P17-21738

Systems Thinking in Hazmat Transportation

This session explores whether systems thinking and applied safety management system principles can help industry and regulators be more proactive in anticipating how new technologies and supply chains affect the hazards and risks of transportation to drive safer transportation and better regulations in an era of rapid change. We anticipate focusing on energy and energy delivery systems (fuel oil and batteries) and all modes of transport (road, air, sea, and pipeline).

Robert Jaffin, Strafford Regional Planning Commission, presiding

Hazmat Regulations: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

Brigham McCown, Nouveau, Inc.

P17-20300

Railroad Network Hazmat Safety Management System

Ravi Palakodeti, FACTOR, Inc.

Derek Bryant, FACTOR, Inc.

P17-20302

Anticipating Constant Change in Rechargeable Battery Technology

George Kerchner, The Rechargeable Battery Association

P17-20303

Transportation Planning for Shipping Spent Nuclear Fuel from Shutdown Reactor Sites to Interim Storage Facilities

This session focuses on activities associated with the U.S. Department of Energy planning initiative focused on the potential transport of spent nuclear fuel from shutdown commercial reactor sites to an interim storage facility. As part of DOE’s Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project, there are hardware, operational, and institutional aspects to this effort, including rail equipment design and procurement, transportation logistics, development of decision-support tools, and stakeholder engagement.

Erica Bickford, U.S. Department of Energy, presiding

Overview of the Department of Energy's Integrated Waste Management Program

Erica Bickford, U.S. Department of Energy

P17-20077

Spent Nuclear Fuel Transport Logistics

Matt Feldman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P17-20078

Rail Equipment Design

Patrick Schwab, U.S. Department of Energy

P17-20079

Shutdown Site Inventories and Transportation Infrastructure

Steven Maheras, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

P17-20080

Stakeholder Tool for Assessing Radioactive Transportation

Mark Abkowitz, Vanderbilt University

P17-20081

Committee Meeting Presentations

Media Framing of Unconventional Fossil Fuels: The Absence of Climate Dialogue in Canada’s Northern Gateway Project (17-06347) Jonn Axsen