Analysis of the Abnormality of Traction Energy Consumption in Urban Rail Transit System

Traction energy consumption (TEC) is a critical part of the total energy consumption in urban rail transit (URT) systems. Energy consumption patterns and abnormal analysis of TEC guarantee the energy-saving URT operation. With the rapid development of urbanization, the current energy consumption is becoming more and more prominent with some inherent drawbacks, such as complex original data, complicated statistical analysis, and abnormal energy consumption. This paper proposes a method for time accrual abnormal analysis of TEC. The system architecture of TEC typical values is presented, composed of three elements: research object, evaluation index, and time scale. The time series prediction algorithm calculates the typical values of the cumulative energy consumption index in each energy consumption mode. For the abnormality in TEC mode, the distance of the string vector is used as the similarity measure. Then, the similarity-based anomaly analysis method is used to judge the pattern abnormality. By comparing the advantages and disadvantages of engineering practice and theoretical research methods, we analyze the applicability of traditional anomaly detection algorithms to perform anomaly analysis of TEC in URT systems. The adopted time accrual abnormal analysis achieves a high fault detection rate, outperforming other models.