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- Title
Hybrid rail track quality analysis using nonlinear dimension reduction technique with machine learning.
- Authors
Lasisi, Ahmed; Attoh-Okine, Nii
- Abstract
Track geometry parameters from rail track inspection are regulated within unique safety limits for different track classes. This study focuses on developing an index that combines safety and track quality because of the inefficiency of corrective maintenance activities between routine maintenance cycles when federal geometry limits are violated. This combination is achievable by summarizing multivariate track geometry parameters as an improvement to previous linear approaches to address the problem of inefficient track geometry maintenance programs. The use of nonlinear dimension reduction (T-stochastic neighbor embedding (T-SNE)) for hybrid track quality index development and the influence of time-based parameters on track quality is evaluated in this study. The results show that the probability of geometry defects is correlated with principal components, but T-SNE had the best prediction on train-test splits despite its poor performance on a blind validation set. The absence of an observable correlation between the track geometry and acceleration data requires further investigation.
- Subjects
MACHINE learning; NONLINEAR analysis
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021, Vol 48, Issue 12, p1713
- ISSN
0315-1468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjce-2019-0832