Resilience assessment of urban rail transit systems: a literature review
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2025
Subject Area
place - urban, mode - rail, literature review - literature review
Keywords
Resilience, Urban rail transit, Measurement, Transportation, Literature review
Abstract
Assessing the resilience of urban rail transit systems helps to identify potential vulnerabilities and facilitates the implementation of measures to strengthen the system’s ability to respond to emergencies. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on assessing the resilience of urban rail transit systems, introducing the concept of resilience and its quantitative measurement methods. First, this research explores the definition of resilience in urban rail transit and clarifies related concepts. Second, this review classifies commonly used resilience metrics into three main categories: network topology metrics, supply–demand-based metrics, and comprehensive metrics. Next, this paper summarizes common resilience measurement approaches in urban rail transit, including the topological, data-driven, optimization, and simulation approaches. Finally, this review discusses strategies and recommendations to improve the resilience of urban rail transit and suggests topics for future research.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by SpringerLink, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Wen, X., Si, B., Wei, Y., & Cui, H. (2025). Resilience assessment of urban rail transit systems: a literature review. Public Transport, 17(3), 657-681.
