Title
An ensemble classifier to predict track geometry degradation.
Abstract
Railway operations are inherently complex and source of several problems. In particular, track geometry defects are one of the leading causes of train accidents in the United States. This paper presents a solution approach which entails the construction of an ensemble classifier to forecast the degradation of track geometry. Our classifier is constructed by solving the problem from three different perspectives: deterioration, regression and classification. We considered a different model from each perspective and our results show that using an ensemble method improves the predictive performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.ress.2016.12.012
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
Field
DocType
Railroad maintenance,Defects,Gamma process,Logistic regression,Support vector machines,Classification,Ensemble algorithms
Data mining,Regression,Gamma process,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Track geometry,Classifier (linguistics),Logistic regression,Ensemble learning,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
161
0951-8320
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
14
5