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Record W4413879328 · doi:10.1111/mice.70054

Data‐driven distributionally robust optimization of railway alignments in earthquake‐prone regions considering active fault zone risks

2025· article· en· W4413879328 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersCentral South UniversityNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaChina Railway
KeywordsRobust optimizationActive faultSeismologyGeologyFault (geology)Computer scienceMathematical optimizationMathematics

Abstract

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Railway alignment design in earthquake-prone regions faces many challenges, among which an active fault zone threat is a dominant factor. However, slight attention has been devoted in this field to the complex fault zone risks affecting alignment optimization (AO). To this end, the first-known AO model that estimates active fault zone risks is proposed according to the distributionally robust optimization (DRO) theory. In this model, a data-driven minimax DRO function is formulated to compute the uncertain fault zone risks while optimizing railway alignments. In addition, a degree-of-regret (DoR) chance constraint is developed to trade off solution quality and search conservatism during optimization. To solve this DRO model, a particle swarm algorithm is improved in two ways. First, a Monte Carlo simulation is customized based on several alignment refinement analyses to assess possible railway losses due to uncertain fault zone damages. Afterward, a solution selection operator is devised to determine the best alignment alternatives while tackling the DoR constraint. Ultimately, the proposed DRO model and algorithm are applied to a real-world railway example. Their effectiveness is verified through two sensitivity analyses and by being compared with the best solution found by human designers.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
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Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.802
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it