Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering

Conventional planning of maintenance and renewal work for railway track is based on heuristics and simple scheduling. The railway industry is now collecting a large amount of data with the fast-paced development of sensor technologies. These data sets carry information about the conditions of variou...

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Main Authors: Jiawei Xie, Jinsong Huang, Cheng Zeng, Shui-Hua Jiang, Nathan Podlich
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/11/425
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author Jiawei Xie
Jinsong Huang
Cheng Zeng
Shui-Hua Jiang
Nathan Podlich
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Nathan Podlich
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description Conventional planning of maintenance and renewal work for railway track is based on heuristics and simple scheduling. The railway industry is now collecting a large amount of data with the fast-paced development of sensor technologies. These data sets carry information about the conditions of various components in railway track. Since just before the beginning of the 21st century, data-driven models have been used in the predictive maintenance of railway track. This study presents a systematic literature review of data-driven models applied in the predictive maintenance of railway track. A taxonomy to classify the existing literature based on types of models and types of applications is provided. It is found that applying the deep learning methods, unsupervised methods, and ensemble methods are the new trends for predictive maintenance of railway track. Rail geometry irregularity, rail head defect, and missing rail components detection were the top three most commonly considered issues within the application of data-driven models. Prediction of rail breaks has received increasing attention in the last four years. Among these data-driven model applications, the collected data types are the most critical factors which affect selecting suitable models. Finally, this study discusses upcoming challenges in the predictive maintenance of railway track.
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spelling doaj.art-c073d9bae5cc410eb874993c567f9d412023-11-20T18:33:18ZengMDPI AGGeosciences2076-32632020-10-01101142510.3390/geosciences10110425Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical EngineeringJiawei Xie0Jinsong Huang1Cheng Zeng2Shui-Hua Jiang3Nathan Podlich4Discipline of Civil, Surveying & Environmental Engineering, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical Science & Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaDiscipline of Civil, Surveying & Environmental Engineering, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical Science & Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaDiscipline of Civil, Surveying & Environmental Engineering, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical Science & Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, ChinaDiscipline of Civil, Surveying & Environmental Engineering, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical Science & Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaConventional planning of maintenance and renewal work for railway track is based on heuristics and simple scheduling. The railway industry is now collecting a large amount of data with the fast-paced development of sensor technologies. These data sets carry information about the conditions of various components in railway track. Since just before the beginning of the 21st century, data-driven models have been used in the predictive maintenance of railway track. This study presents a systematic literature review of data-driven models applied in the predictive maintenance of railway track. A taxonomy to classify the existing literature based on types of models and types of applications is provided. It is found that applying the deep learning methods, unsupervised methods, and ensemble methods are the new trends for predictive maintenance of railway track. Rail geometry irregularity, rail head defect, and missing rail components detection were the top three most commonly considered issues within the application of data-driven models. Prediction of rail breaks has received increasing attention in the last four years. Among these data-driven model applications, the collected data types are the most critical factors which affect selecting suitable models. Finally, this study discusses upcoming challenges in the predictive maintenance of railway track.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/11/425railway trackdata-driven modelspredictive maintenancemeasurement datamachine learning
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Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering
Geosciences
railway track
data-driven models
predictive maintenance
measurement data
machine learning
title Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering
title_full Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering
title_fullStr Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering
title_full_unstemmed Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering
title_short Systematic Literature Review on Data-Driven Models for Predictive Maintenance of Railway Track: Implications in Geotechnical Engineering
title_sort systematic literature review on data driven models for predictive maintenance of railway track implications in geotechnical engineering
topic railway track
data-driven models
predictive maintenance
measurement data
machine learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/11/425
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