Simulation and Criticality Assessment of Urban Rail and Interdependent Infrastructure Networks
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2023
Subject Area
place - europe, place - urban, mode - rail, infrastructure
Keywords
Urban infrastructure, urban rail, asset criticality
Abstract
The role of urban infrastructure is becoming increasingly interdependent, resulting in new sources of vulnerability. Infrastructural asset failure can propagate between rail transportation and other infrastructure networks. There remains a lack of academic research focusing on the dynamic simulation of city-wide infrastructure using real-life data to quantify and cross-compare the criticality of assets. This paper aims to bridge this gap by developing a modeling methodology for interdependent urban infrastructure using complex network theory, which serves as a basis for investigating asset criticality and failure propagation. This modeling framework comprises the distribution of resource supply and demand, the topological representation and skeletonization of the infrastructure network, as well as modeling the propagation of asset failures. The framework is thereafter applied to a case study of the exposure of Greater London’s rail transportation network to failures from electricity infrastructure, selected as a representative example of interdependent infrastructures within a large-scale urban metropolitan area. Two time-based criticality metrics are also proposed to measure the topological extent of infrastructural failures and economic impacts resulting from the failure propagation of given initial failure scenarios. The results of the case study demonstrate that these proposed criticality metrics are effective in capturing the dynamics of failure propagation, and that topological metrics in criticality assessment do not always reflect the resulting economic damages of infrastructural failures.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by SAGE, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Bin Wee, X., Herrera, M., Hadjidemetriou, G. M., & Kumar Parlikad, A. (2023). Simulation and criticality assessment of urban rail and interdependent infrastructure networks. Transportation Research Record, 2677(1), 1181-1196.
