Stability of public transportation systems in case of random failures and intended attacks - a case study from Switzerland

• Published in: 4th IET International Conference on System Safety 2009. Incorporating the SaRS Annual Conference p. 1B3
• Main Authors: Dorbritz, R, Weidmann, U
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage IET 2009
• Subjects: Combinatorial mathematics; Maintenance and reliability; Railway industry; Systems theory applications in industry; Systems theory applications in transportation; scale free network; railway accidents; interdisciplinary graph theoretical assessment; disastrous events spreading dynamics; graph theory; disasters; Swiss railway network; subnetwork infrastructure; complex networks; intended attack; failure analysis; public transportation system; railways; power law regime; railway network stability; random failure; railway transport; random error; stability

This paper presents the first results of a study analyzing railway network stability and the spreading dynamics of disastrous events with the potential to cause system-wide blockades using an interdisciplinary graph theoretical assessment. It introduces the modelling of railway transport that is ass...