Railway emergency management has
gradually shifted from reaction planning to scenario plan-
ning when an emergency occurs. As such, an effective
approach to integrated information management based
on the “scenario–response” mode has become of con-
siderable value in establishing a scenario model for rail-
way emergency. First, the scenario elements of rail-
way emergencies were classified by scenario analysis
to set up a hierarchical network model for railway emer-
gencies. After the analysis of the requirements, sources,
and characteristics of information for scenario build-
ing, an approach to integrated information service for
railway emergency scenarios based on the Service-
Oriented Adaptive Agent Collaborative Model was pro-
posed. Such approach could meet the requirements for
autonomy and flexibility of an integrated information ser-
vice under railway emergency conditions. Agent tech-
nology was adopted, and the Web service proxy was
provided by the software agents in the proposed ap-
proach. The global scenario model was divided into
many local procedure models in different departments,
which distributed the control of integrated information
service to numerous service nodes. Experimental re-
sults showed that the integrated information service
system based on the proposed approach is significantly
more autonomous and flexible than the integrated model
based on the Business Process Execution Language
for Web Services