An emergency evacuation order might be issued in response to a railway incident involving
hazardous materials (hazmat), such as the February 2023 derailment at Palestine, Ohio …

The evolving complexities of railroad systems also increase their vulnerability to failure from
human error. This study compared the outcomes of two workflows that incorporated 11 …

Accidents serve as an operational measure of marine safety, and specifically the safety of
vessels, crews, and cargoes. The ability to accurately predict the type of vessel accident with …

This paper studies the operational safety of urban rail transit (URT) systems through Artificial
Neural Networks. While recent safety literature adopting systematic models of analysis …

Although crashes involving hazardous materials (HAZMAT) are rare events compared with
other types of traffic crashes, they often cause tremendous loss of life and property, as well …

As two of the main modes of hazmat surface transportation, quantifying conditional
probability of release of hazmat from trains in rail incidents and Cargo Tank Trucks (CTTs) in …

The reported financial losses from railroad accidents since 2009 have been more than US
$4.11 billion dollars. This considerable loss is a major concern for the industry, society, and …

Railway network operations form complex systems. Any disruption adversely impacts the
operations, causing long delays. Many studies investigate the effect of a railway incident; …

Rail transit stations with multifloor structures have been built in many cities to intensively
utilize land resources and facilitate lives of community. However, being overcrowded with …

In recent years, transportation system safety analysis has become increasingly challenging
and highly demanding. Unstructured data contain sufficient information from which inherent …