Resilient railways

This paper describes the end-to-end early warning system developed for the Naples-Rome high-speed railway that integrates seismic monitoring, advanced signal processing, and railway-specific protocols to enhance the management of railway operation.

From city transit to cross-country freight, Australia’s rail system is straining as the infrastructure ages and climate extremes grow more intense and frequent. Much of Australia’s rail backbone was built decades ago.

The authors present a probabilistic framework to evaluate the resilience of railway infrastructure systems subjected to compound climate hazards that manifest themselves by SLR and extreme hydraulic hazards as a result of hurricanes.

In late July 2025, a train derailed in Germany due to a landslide caused by heavy rainfall. This raises the question: could something like this happen in the Netherlands?

Even though trains are the safest and most sustainable mode of transportation, they are vulnerable to extreme weather. What lessons can be learned from the recent train derailment in southern Germany?

The new Seismic Early Warning system on the Rome-Naples high-speed line is based on a series of integrated technologies that work in a coordinated manner to ensure timely intervention in the event of an earthquake.

The highways, railways and bridges that keep economies and communities thriving were not built to withstand rising temperatures. How can we stop them from melting down?

This research develops a vulnerability and a risk assessment metric to identify the hotspots within the Italy national coastal railway due to sea-level rise (SLR) impacts.

As the climate warms, intensifying heat waves are throwing the U.S. passenger rail system off schedule.

This research pinpoints the specific risks and vulnerabilities in the Indian railway system created due to climatic shifts induced by climate change, such as temperature fluctuations, changes in precipitation, and severe weather phenomena.