Real-Time HazMat Environmental Information System: A micro-service based architecture

The dangerous goods are important to businesses and the life of a city. Thousands of tons of oil, toxic, chemical, corrosive, flammable and radioactive materials are transported each day. However, an accident involving hazardous materials could entail serious consequences for road users, infrastructure, and the environment. In order to build a planning aid system to reduce the risks of transporting hazardous, we adopt a microservices-based architecture on a cloud environment. This type of architecture consists of a set of loosely coupled and independently deployable services for more scalable applications. Due to distributed nature of microservices, the system will be developed as a suite of small services aligned with risk management process; each service will be running in its own logical machine or container technology such as Docker. (c) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.