Structural Analysis of the Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train with Data Science

Abstract

As part of an initiative to mitigate transportation congestion of more than 230,000 daily travellers between Mexico City and Mexico State, the Mexican Federal Government, through the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, began the construction of the Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train in January 2015. In this paper, an exhaustive analysis of the train infrastructure in an event of a high-magnitude earthquake is carried out. For that, a scenario of a large earthquake in which the train moves at high speed transporting passengers is considered. Specifically, we analyse the structure behaviour when it is exposed to an earthquake comparable in magnitude to those experienced on September 19th 1985, in Mexico, and May 22nd 1960, in Chile. Preliminary results confirm the useful of data science techniques for the study, and offer a comprehensive analysis of the train structural integrity under earthquake conditions via simulations conducted using the SAP 2000 software.