Research trends of transportation safety:identified from ESREL 2015 conference

This paper provides an overview of the 25 th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 201 5). Through statistically categorizing the keynote speeches and technical papers,from a perspective of systems security ap-proach,popular topics in the field of safety and reliability including resilience theory,safety assessment theory and uncer-tainty theory are summarized in this paper and their applications in the field of transportation system are introduced.Fi-nally,the trend of risk prevention and control of the transportation system based on the popular topics presented at the ESREL 201 5 are illustrated and a safety assessment framework of transportation system based on the resilience theory is presented.