 Modeling and vulnerability analysis of interdependent railway and power networks: Application to British test systemsBellè, Andrea, Zhiguo Zeng, Carole Duval, Marc Sango and Anne Barros Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2022, vol. 217, issue C Abstract: Railway and power networks are among the most important critical infrastructures and their vulnerability under different types of disrupting events has been analyzed extensively. However, the increasing degree of interconnection between these two critical infrastructures makes it necessary to consider the multiple interdependencies when conducting vulnerability assessments. We propose an approach for the modeling and vulnerability analysis of interdependent railway and power networks which accounts for a realistic coupling through the traction power network, which acts as an interface. Moreover, we consider cascading failures within and between networks. With the proposed model, we show that failures in the power network have a considerable negative impact on the railway network. In addition, our analysis shows that the dependency of the railway network on the power network can considerably impact vulnerability and cascading failures dynamics of the power network. Keywords: Critical infrastructures; Vulnerability; Interdependent networks; Cascading failures; Power network; Railway network (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:reensy:v:217:y:2022:i:c:s0951832021005871 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.108091 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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