Resilient Underground Subway Infrastructure Maintenance Planning
Motivated by the widespread aging of underground subway infrastructure and its growing impacts on service disruptions, congestion, and economic losses, which are increasingly intensified by climate-related hazards such as flooding, this Activity Group (AG) aims to advance understanding and improving maintenance planning for underground subway infrastructure systems. The scope of the AG includes key underground subway assets such as tunnels, rail tracks, power and signal systems, with a focus on degradation modeling, state-of-the-art infrastructure health monitoring technologies, vulnerability to natural disasters, data availability and integration, and maintenance planning policies and practices used by transit agencies across different regions, as well as their implications for service quality and ridership. The AG plans to facilitate knowledge exchange among researchers, practitioners, transit agencies, government institutions, and industry partners, and to develop a white paper synthesizing global practices in monitoring technologies, maintenance planning approaches, and policy considerations, with the aim of supporting effective, resilient, and data-driven decision making for underground subway infrastructure management.
Ziyue (Jelly) Li
Email: [email protected]