When Trains Meet Snowstorms: Turning Weather Chaos into Predictable Rail Operations
Opening — Why this matters now Railway delays are one of those problems everyone experiences and almost no one truly understands. Passengers blame weather. Operators blame operations. Data scientists blame missing variables. Everyone is partially correct. What has quietly shifted in recent years is not the weather itself, but our ability to observe it alongside operations—continuously, spatially, and at scale. As rail systems push toward AI‑assisted scheduling, predictive maintenance, and real‑time disruption management, delay prediction without weather is no longer just incomplete—it is structurally misleading. ...