Research Article

Evaluating Railway Operation Safety Situation in China Based on an Improved TOPSIS Method: A Regional Perspective

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Summary of relevant publications on railway safety management.

SubjectsPublicationsMain contentsMethodsWeightsData

Multifactor analysis and evaluation[7]Identify the most significant human performance shaping factorsFactors identification frameworkAccident statistics
[8]Evaluate operational safety and the availability of signalling systemsImproved Markov modelState monitoring of signalling systems
[10]Evaluate environmental safety through establishing the impact index system of weatherAttribute recognition modelNatural attribute weightEnvironmental statistics

Analysis and mining of accident characteristics[11]Analyze the accident and its spreading processesSystem-theoretic accident models and processAccident reports (4·28 China-Jiaoji)
[12, 30]Accident causation analysisFactors identification, analysis, and classification modelAccident/incident reports
[13]Discover and reveal relationships and patterns among accidentsAssociation rules mining techniquesSubjective weightAccident records
[29]Present a more comprehensive analysis of the accidentFault tree and quantitative analysisExpert scoring weightAccident reports (7·23 China-Yongwen)

Safety state prediction[14, 17]State prediction based on the representative index systemNeural networkAccident statistics

Risk management[26]Describe the dynamic changing process of system safetyCusp catastrophe modelAccident records
[27]Raise awareness of potential safety risksRisk mechanism analysisRelated literature
[28]Local risk estimationBayesian networkIncidents records

Safety situation evaluationThis paperEvaluate operational safety situation from a regional perspectiveSPA-TOPSIS-CSMCombined weight (subjective, natural, and entropy)Accident statistics