From Fire Rescue 1:
“This tool is helping BNSF, along with its customer and community emergency response partners, quickly and correctly develop plans to address potential hazardous materials emergencies. BNSF’s rate of derailment-related hazardous materials incidents per 100,000 shipments has dropped more than 45 percent since 1996, and we expect SAFER STAR® to help us further improve the management of our response in the future.”
— Mark Stehly, Asst. Vice President Technical Research, Development & Environment
BNSF Railway, one of the companies represented in the Alameda Corridor Operating Committee
Summary
The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile stretch in southern Los Angeles County, California, running from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles north to downtown Los Angeles, primarily along and adjacent to Alameda Street. The project extends through or borders nine cities as well as unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. It includes 11 miles of rail located in a trench 33 feet below grade.
With all Class One railroads in North America as owners of SAFER STAR® systems, as well as the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, it was a natural choice for the governing Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) to implement a SAFER STAR® system with SAFER Real-Time® software in its chemical emergency response management program.