1. Climate change impacts assessment on railway infrastructure in urban environments.
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Kasraei, Ahmad, Garmabaki, A.H.S., Odelius, Johan, Famurewa, Stephen M, Chamkhorami, Khosro Soleimani, and Strandberg, Gustav
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CLIMATE change & health ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) ,CLIMATE change adaptation ,CLIMATIC zones ,CLIMATE change ,PROPORTIONAL hazards models ,JOINT use of railroad facilities ,RAILROAD crossings - Abstract
• Climate change can deeply affect the urban railway infrastructure • Determining key weather factors associated with different geographical location • Framework for integration of railway asset health and climate scenarios • Proposing adaptation measures for increase resiliency of infrastructure Climate change impacts can escalate the deteriorating rate of infrastructures and impact the infrastructure's functionality, safety, operation and maintenance (O&M). This research explores climate change's influence on urban railway infrastructure. Given the geographical diversity of Sweden, the railway network is divided into different climate zones utilizing the K-means algorithm. Reliability analysis using the Cox Proportional Hazard Model is proposed to integrate meteorological parameters and operational factors to predict the degree of impacts of different climatic parameters on railway infrastructure assets. The proposed methodology is validated by selecting a number of switches and crossings (S&Cs), which are critical components in railways for changing the route, located in different urban railway stations across various climate zones in Sweden. The study explores various databases and proposes a climatic feature to identify climate-related risks of S&C assets. Furthermore, different meteorological covariates are analyzed to understand better the dependency between asset health and meteorological parameters. Infrastructure asset managers can tailor suitable climate adaptation measures based on geographical location, asset age, and other life cycle parameters by identifying vulnerable assets and determining significant covariates. Sensitivity analysis of significant covariates at one of the urban railway stations shows precipitation increment reveal considerable variation in the asset reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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