TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent applications of big data analytics in railway transportation systems
T2 - A survey
AU - Ghofrani, Faeze
AU - He, Qing
AU - Goverde, Rob M.P.
AU - Liu, Xiang
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Big data analytics (BDA) has increasingly attracted a strong attention of analysts, researchers and practitioners in railway transportation and engineering. This urges the necessity for a review of recent research development in this field. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive review of the recent applications of big data in the context of railway engineering and transportation by a novel taxonomy framework, proposed by Mayring (2003). The survey covers three areas of railway transportation where BDA has been applied, namely operations, maintenance and safety. Also, the level of big data analytics, types of big data models and a variety of big data techniques have been reviewed and summarized. The results of this study identify the existing research gaps and thereby directions of future research in BDA in railway transportation systems.
AB - Big data analytics (BDA) has increasingly attracted a strong attention of analysts, researchers and practitioners in railway transportation and engineering. This urges the necessity for a review of recent research development in this field. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive review of the recent applications of big data in the context of railway engineering and transportation by a novel taxonomy framework, proposed by Mayring (2003). The survey covers three areas of railway transportation where BDA has been applied, namely operations, maintenance and safety. Also, the level of big data analytics, types of big data models and a variety of big data techniques have been reviewed and summarized. The results of this study identify the existing research gaps and thereby directions of future research in BDA in railway transportation systems.
KW - Big data
KW - Data analytics
KW - Railway transportation systems
KW - Survey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044159589&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.trc.2018.03.010
DO - 10.1016/j.trc.2018.03.010
M3 - Article
SN - 0968-090X
VL - 90
SP - 226
EP - 246
JO - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
JF - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
ER -