Examining the impact of adverse weather on urban rail transit facilities on the basis of fault tree analysis and fuzzy synthetic evaluation

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ma, Jiaqi ^a   Bai, Yan ^b   Shen, Jianfeng ^c   Zhou, Fang ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adverse weather; Analytic hierarchical analysis (AHP); Fault tree analysis (FTA); Fuzzy synthetic evaluation (FSE); Risk analysis.; URT facilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894058207     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000630     Document Type: Article

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