Quantifying weather-induced unreliable public transportation service in cold regions under future climate model scenarios

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2024

Subject Area

place - north america, place - urban, operations - reliability, mode - subway/metro, planning - methods, planning - environmental impact

Keywords

Public transport reliability, Interconnected infrastructure systems, Climate change, Extreme weather events, Snow water equivalent and snowmelt, Deep learning

Abstract

Climate change, particularly in cold regions, significantly challenges public transportation systems. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of weather patterns and public transit reliability in the context of climate change impacts. Leveraging advanced modeling techniques, including a ridge regression model for snow water equivalent data estimation and a long short-term memory (LSTM) based on recurrent neural network, the study aims to assess the reliability trends of the rapid transit system under various climate scenarios. The findings reveal that climate change in general increases weather-related delays in the Toronto transit system. The number of short delays decreased accordingly due to changes in winter temperatures but exacerbated long delays as the number of weather extremes increased. The LSTM model performed effectively in predicting delays, especially for the rapid transit system sensitive to weather variations. This study emphasizes the need for robust planning and interventions to increase the resilience of transit systems against climate change and highlights the importance of the integration of climate and extreme weather considerations into transportation management.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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