Mapping Accident Reports as Networks Reveals the Real Causes
Every year, 1.86 billion tons of hazardous materials are transported by rail across China.
When flammable, explosive, or toxic substances are involved in an accident, the cause is never a single mistake — it is the result of dozens of factors interacting with one another.
So how do we quantify which factors had the greatest impact?
This post introduces a case study that converts risk factors from railway hazardous goods transport accidents into a network structure, then uses NetMiner to analyze centrality and pinpoint the most critical factors. (Huang, W. et al., 2020)