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Title: Land Use and Pipeline Safety in Texas: Analysis of Onshore Pipeline Accidents to Explore the Impact of Land Use Planning on Pipeline Safety in Texas
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Oil and gas pipelines are one of widely used modes of transport of oil and gas products. They often traverse through vast geographical areas and can carry toxic and flammable commodity. Therefore, their mishaps cannot be neglected as they pose inherent hazard to surrounding population and environment. Local land use and development decisions can have huge impact on the pipeline safety. Given the importance and complexity of these infrastructure, they haven’t received enough attention from planners and planning scholars. There are several researches that look into the effectiveness of land use planning in coping with various types of hazards but there is lack of literature that look into pipeline related hazards. On the other side of spectrum, there are research that investigate pipeline safety in terms of complex risk assessment models without including socioeconomics and land use elements in theirevaluation. Thus, the primary research purpose of my research was to fill the gap by formulating a straightforward method that connects the land use planning and pipeline safety. Land use planning was evaluated in terms of physical land use and socioeconomic characteristics around the pipeline accidents. Pipeline safety was evaluated in terms of economic costs of pipeline accidents. Onshore hazardous liquid pipeline accidents that occurred in Texas from 2002 to 2016 were the basis of the analysis. I explored the impact of land use planning on pipeline safety by assessing the relationship between various economic costs of pipeline accidents with accidents characteristics, different types of existing land use and socioeconomic characteristics surrounding pipeline accidents in the state of Texas using series of multiple linear regression. The result showed that the physical land use and population characteristics around pipeline accidents can impact the economic costs of accidents. The secondary research purpose of my research was to compare the land use types and population characteristics at several distances of pipeline accidents using t-test. The result suggested that the intensity of development around the pipeline accidents is relatively higher and the age of residential housing near pipeline accidents are newer suggesting the area around the pipeline are growing.
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Authors: Rajbhandari, Subrity
Institution: Texas Southern University
Department: Urban Planning
Advisor: Lalita Sen
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization
Countries: United States