China Safety Science Journal ›› 2026, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 252-261.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2026.04.1718

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Identification of rainstorm disaster chain in urban rail transit system based on event evolutionary graph

TANG Hongxia1(), WANG Xiaojie1,**(), LI Mengdi2, SHAO Zhiguo1,3   

  1. 1 School of Management Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao Shandong 266525, Shandong, China
    2 School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
    3 Tongji University Sustainable Development and New-type Urbanization Think-tank, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2025-10-10 Revised:2025-12-21 Online:2026-04-28 Published:2026-10-28
  • Contact: WANG Xiaojie

Abstract:

In order to scientifically identify the key disaster-causing factors and key disaster-causing paths in the urban rail transit system's flood disaster chain, and enhance the resilience of these systems, a study was conducted based on news report text data related to the urban rail transit flood disasters from 2010 to 2024. Natural language processing technology and a rule-based template matching method were used to extract causal event pairs. The t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) method was used to generalize the extracted event pairs, and the abstract event evolutionary graph of rainstorm disaster in the urban rail transit system was constructed, which was visualized as a disaster chain evolution network combined with Gephi. The complex network theory was introduced to quantitatively analyze the rainstorm disaster chain evolution network of the urban rail transit system, and identify the key disaster factors and key disaster paths in the disaster chain. The results show that the four types of disaster events, rainstorm, station water, subway shutdown and equipment failure, are of high importance and are the key disaster factors in the rainstorm disaster chain evolution network of the urban rail transit system. The three evolutionary paths of "road water → station water", "subway shutdown → economic loss" and "road water → rainwater backpouring" have high vulnerability, which are the key disaster paths in the rainstorm disaster chain evolution network of the urban rail transit system. The identified key disaster-causing factors and key disaster-causing paths can provide decision support for disaster prevention and mitigation.

Key words: urban rail transit, event evolutionary graph, rainstorm disaster chain, complex network, causality

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