A rough set-based measurement model study on high-speed railway safety operation

PLoS One. 2018 Jun 7;13(6):e0197918. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197918. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

Aiming to solve the safety problems of high-speed railway operation and management, one new method is urgently needed to construct on the basis of the rough set theory and the uncertainty measurement theory. The method should carefully consider every factor of high-speed railway operation that realizes the measurement indexes of its safety operation. After analyzing the factors that influence high-speed railway safety operation in detail, a rough measurement model is finally constructed to describe the operation process. Based on the above considerations, this paper redistricts the safety influence factors of high-speed railway operation as 16 measurement indexes which include staff index, vehicle index, equipment index and environment. And the paper also provides another reasonable and effective theoretical method to solve the safety problems of multiple attribute measurement in high-speed railway operation. As while as analyzing the operation data of 10 pivotal railway lines in China, this paper respectively uses the rough set-based measurement model and value function model (one model for calculating the safety value) for calculating the operation safety value. The calculation result shows that the curve of safety value with the proposed method has smaller error and greater stability than the value function method's, which verifies the feasibility and effectiveness.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Safety
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Railroads*
  • Safety*
  • Uncertainty

Grants and funding

The work was supported by National Nature Science Funding of China (Project No.51178157) and the fundamental research funds for The Central Universities (Project No. 30916011338). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.