China Safety Science Journal ›› 2023, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 209-216.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2023.02.0805

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Comprehensive risk calculation of international freight train routes during COVID-19 pandemic

WANG Chenyu1(), OU Qichen1, GAN Mi1,2,**()   

  1. 1 School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu Sichuan 611756, China
    2 Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies (Southeast University), Nanjing Jiangsu 211189, China
  • Received:2022-09-19 Revised:2022-12-10 Online:2023-02-28 Published:2023-08-28

Abstract:

In order to analyze and measure the comprehensive risk of international freight train routes such as China-Europe and China-Asia freight train routes under the global COVID-19, this paper aimed to help policy makers to take preventive measures. Firstly, the comprehensive risk evaluation index system of the countries along the corridor under the epidemic situation was constructed, and FCM was used to classify countries along the corridor by risk levels. Then a routing risk measurement model considering interaction between nodes was constructed. Finally, Monte Carlo method was used to simulate the experiment, so that the destination and the return train risk scores of different routes were obtained. The results show that the central/eastbound channel of China-Europe freight train routes have the highest risk, while the southbound channel and new channel of China-Asia freight train routes have relatively low risk. Therefore, it is necessary to effectively develop the southbound channel and new channels to share the freight risk of high channel.

Key words: corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), international freight train, risk calculation, fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering, Monte Carlo method