All Outputs (57)

Bayesian network-based probability analysis of train derailments caused by various extreme weather patterns on railway turnouts (2017)
Journal Article
Dindar, S., Kaewunruen, S., An, M., & Sussman, J. (2018). Bayesian network-based probability analysis of train derailments caused by various extreme weather patterns on railway turnouts. Safety Science, 110(Part B), 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2017.12.028

Since multiple failure events associated with derailments could not be identified and derailment probability could not be reached quantitatively by event tree and fault tree analysis for safety assessment in railway systems, applications of Bayesian... Read More about Bayesian network-based probability analysis of train derailments caused by various extreme weather patterns on railway turnouts.

Track assignment adjustment problem in complex railway passenger stations (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Y., An, M., & Wang, L. (2017, October). Track assignment adjustment problem in complex railway passenger stations. Presented at The 3rd International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2017, Changsha, China

Track assignment plans are often adjusted for the purpose of safety and the minimum delay in real-time conditions, especially in busy complex railway passenger stations. First, taken trains as nodes, tracks as colors, a graph coloring model is design... Read More about Track assignment adjustment problem in complex railway passenger stations.

Railway network reliability analysis based on key station identification using complex network theory : a real-world case study of high-speed rail network (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wang, L., An, M., Zhang, Y., & Rana, K. (2017, October). Railway network reliability analysis based on key station identification using complex network theory : a real-world case study of high-speed rail network. Presented at International Research Conference 2017 : Shaping Tomorrow's Built Environment, University of Salford, UK

The railway infrastructures have been rapidly developed around the world in the recent years. As a consequence, topology structures and operation modes of the railway network are greatly changed to very complicated network systems. Reliability anal... Read More about Railway network reliability analysis based on key station identification using complex network theory : a real-world case study of high-speed rail network.

A phenomenological study on decision making under uncertainty in real estate investments in Subsaharan Africa - a critical review of literature (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Nsibande, C., & An, M. (2017, September). A phenomenological study on decision making under uncertainty in real estate investments in Subsaharan Africa - a critical review of literature. Presented at 13th International Postgraduate Research Conference (IPGRC), University of Salford, UK

Decision making under uncertainty can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century as defined by Von Neumann and Morgenstein in what was termed expected utility theory. Kahneman and Tversky reinvented decision making theories and introduced... Read More about A phenomenological study on decision making under uncertainty in real estate investments in Subsaharan Africa - a critical review of literature.

Considerations of out-of-gauge freight transportation in railway infrastructure development and maintenance projects (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Y., An, M., Wang, L., & Lei, D. (2017, September). Considerations of out-of-gauge freight transportation in railway infrastructure development and maintenance projects. Presented at International Research Conference 2017: Shaping Tomorrow's Built Environment, University of Salford, UK

The demands of railway infrastructure development are increased to meet rail transport requirements, particularly, for those large scale equipment and oversized cargoes that are often beyond railway gauges such as vehicle/infrastructure structure gau... Read More about Considerations of out-of-gauge freight transportation in railway infrastructure development and maintenance projects.

Derailment-based fault tree analysis on risk management of railway turnout systems (2017)
Journal Article
of railway turnout systems. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 245(II), 042020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/245/4/042020

Railway turnouts are fundamental mechanical infrastructures, which allow a rolling stock to divert one direction to another. As those are of a large number of engineering subsystems, e.g. track, signalling, earthworks, these particular sub-systems ar... Read More about Derailment-based fault tree analysis on risk management of railway turnout systems.

Identification of appropriate risk analysis techniques for railway turnout systems (2016)
Journal Article
Dindar, S., Kaewunruen, S., & An, M. (2018). Identification of appropriate risk analysis techniques for railway turnout systems. Journal of Risk Research, 21(8), 974-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1264452

The construction of railway turnout entails a complex geometry and multidisciplinary engineering science, which makes it one of the most critical railway infrastructures. As such, these characteristics pose various risks in rail operation. A consider... Read More about Identification of appropriate risk analysis techniques for railway turnout systems.

Natural hazard risks on railway turnout systems (2016)
Journal Article
Dindar, S., Kaewunruen, S., An, M., & Osman, M. (2016). Natural hazard risks on railway turnout systems. Procedia Engineering, 161, 1254-1259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.561

As an essential feature to enable rail operational flexibility, railway turnouts are special track systems used to divert a train from a particular direction or a particular track onto other directions or other tracks. Railway turnout is constructed... Read More about Natural hazard risks on railway turnout systems.

Challenges for implementing public private partnership in housing projects in Dar Es Salaam City, Tanzania (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kavishe, N., & An, M. (2016, September). Challenges for implementing public private partnership in housing projects in Dar Es Salaam City, Tanzania. Presented at The 32nd Annual ARCOM Conference, Manchester. UK

Despite the absence of a PPP legal framework Tanzania has adopted PPP in a few sectors including the housing sector. For a number of years the country has been facing a severe shortage of adequate housing. The government advised its housing agencies... Read More about Challenges for implementing public private partnership in housing projects in Dar Es Salaam City, Tanzania.

Disruption : a new component in the track inspection schedule (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Osman, M., Kaewunruen, S., An, M., & Dindar, S. (2016, August). Disruption : a new component in the track inspection schedule. Presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT), Birmingham, UK

Disruptions can occur during the execution of any schedule or plan. Both minor and major disruptions must be handled properly, because they have the potential to cause deviation from the original schedule's main goals. In rail track inspection schedu... Read More about Disruption : a new component in the track inspection schedule.

Disruption management of resource schedule in transportation sector : understanding the concept and strategy (2016)
Journal Article
Osman, M., Kaewunruen, S., An, M., & Dindar, S. (2016). Disruption management of resource schedule in transportation sector : understanding the concept and strategy. Procedia Engineering, 161(2016), 1295-1299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.592

Disruption in a schedule (or plan) can be managed but not all factors are visible. A study of disruption management is performed specifically to minimize the differences between the expected and actual context of execution. The purpose of this paper... Read More about Disruption management of resource schedule in transportation sector : understanding the concept and strategy.

Challenges of railway safety risk assessment and maintenance decision making (2016)
Book Chapter
An, M., & Qin, Y. (2016). Challenges of railway safety risk assessment and maintenance decision making. In B. Umesh Rai (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Innovations in Railway Transportation Engineering (173-211). USA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0084-1.ch009

Railway safety is a very complicated subject, which is determined by numerous aspects. Many of qualitative and quantitative railway safety and risk analysis techniques and methods are used in the industry. But, however, the railway industry faces pro... Read More about Challenges of railway safety risk assessment and maintenance decision making.

Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides (2016)
Journal Article
Al-Saadi, M., & An, M. (2016). Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 10(4), 448-460. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1112129

During airport planning and design stages, the major issues of capacity and safety in construction and operation of an airport need to be taken into consideration. The airside of an airport is a major and critical infrastructure that usually consists... Read More about Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides.

Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process (2015)
Journal Article
An, M., Qin, Y., Jia, L., & Chen, Y. (2016). Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process. Safety Science, 82, 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.08.011

Railway risk assessment is a hierarchical process where risk information obtained at lower levels may be used for risk assessment at higher levels. Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is widely used in risk decision making process to solve impr... Read More about Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process.

Safety. risk and uncertainties in transportation and transit system
Book
Matsumoto, A., An, M., & Kaewunruen, S. A. Matsumoto, M. An, & S. Kaewunruen (Eds.), Safety. risk and uncertainties in transportation and transit system. Switzerland: Frontiers Media

Disruptions in the operation of transportation and transit infrastructure may put at risk the functioning of our societies and their economies. Such disruptions may result from many kinds of hazards and physical and/or cyber-attacks on installations... Read More about Safety. risk and uncertainties in transportation and transit system.

Characteristic analysis of high-speed railway network in China
Presentation / Conference
Guo, D., Qin, Y., Wang, L., & An, M. Characteristic analysis of high-speed railway network in China. Presented at EITRT 2017 : The third International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation, Changsha, China

The high-speed railway has been developed rapidly, and the topological structure and transportation organization of the railway network have changed greatly. In this paper, China’s high-speed railway is taken as the research object and train flow net... Read More about Characteristic analysis of high-speed railway network in China.

High-speed railway timetable rescheduling method : a bi-level integrated programming approach
Presentation / Conference
integrated programming approach. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2017, Changsha, China

China’s railway has experienced a large-scale development in the recent years. Making up for delay time considering the energy efficiency when the train is delayed, which can satisfy the travel demand for passengers and save rail energy costs at the... Read More about High-speed railway timetable rescheduling method : a bi-level integrated programming approach.