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Condition Monitoring and Intelligent Maintenance of Railway Infrastructure, 2nd Edition

This special issue belongs to the section “Transportation and Future Mobility“.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance systems are crucial to reducing railway downtime and increasing network availability, thus enabling new passenger services and reducing operational costs.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in the fields of non-destructive testing, condition-based maintenance, prognosis & health management, robotics applications, autonomous maintenance systems, track geometry data analyses, and data and visual analytics.

Modelling and experimental studies are welcome, as are comprehensive review and survey papers.

Dr. Isidro S. Durazo-Cardenas
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

non-destructive testing
ultrasonics
eddy currents
condition based maintenance
prognosis
health management
robotics
autonomous maintenance systems
track geometry data
data analytics
visual analytics

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