TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating automated analyses of track defect data with track inspection and maintenance scheduling
AU - Betak, John F.
AU - Williams, Trefor P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ASCE.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Recent research has demonstrated the potential value of using automated text analyses and visualization tools, in conjunction with GIS, to capture and identify associations between track defects, track type, equipment failures, population, weather and climatic trends, and other factors with railroad accidents. In this paper, we extend those analyses to demonstrate possible opportunities to introduce these automated tools into systematic track inspection and maintenance scheduling. More specifically, we show how these automated tools lead to the development of probabilistic estimates of potential track failure based upon the underlying statistical relationships of track defect data and other data with railroad accidents. Given such estimates, we identify possible ways these estimates can be utilized to improve systematic track inspection and maintenance practices.
AB - Recent research has demonstrated the potential value of using automated text analyses and visualization tools, in conjunction with GIS, to capture and identify associations between track defects, track type, equipment failures, population, weather and climatic trends, and other factors with railroad accidents. In this paper, we extend those analyses to demonstrate possible opportunities to introduce these automated tools into systematic track inspection and maintenance scheduling. More specifically, we show how these automated tools lead to the development of probabilistic estimates of potential track failure based upon the underlying statistical relationships of track defect data and other data with railroad accidents. Given such estimates, we identify possible ways these estimates can be utilized to improve systematic track inspection and maintenance practices.
KW - Automated text-visualization – track defects
KW - Probabilistic track inspection-maintenance scheduling
KW - Track defect-train derailment relationships
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784481257.096
DO - 10.1061/9780784481257.096
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048729485
T3 - ICRT 2017: Railway Development, Operations, and Maintenance - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Rail Transportation 2017
SP - 947
EP - 963
BT - ICRT 2017
A2 - Zhai, Wanming
A2 - Wang, Kelvin C. P.
PB - Ultrasound International
T2 - 1st International Conference on Rail Transportation 2017: Railway Development, Operations, and Maintenance, ICRT 2017
Y2 - 10 July 2017 through 12 July 2017
ER -