Research Advances in Rail Transport Infrastructure
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: railway infrastructure; diagnostic railway infrastructure; tribology; residual stress; railway vehicles
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Interests: railway engineering, railway dynamics, maintenance and diagnostics, modelling and simulations, stochastic and nonlinear properties, moving load problems, railway transport problems, computational problems
Special Issue Information
The aim of this Special Issue of Applied Sciences is to focus on issues that arise in various areas of scientific research on rail transport, particularly design, construction, technology of works, operation, and maintenance. The issues and problems to be addressed herein are of particular importance due to requirement to implement European Union’s policy on rail transport, its decarbonization and environmental protection, the recycling of used materials, and the safety of rail transport systems—including cybersecurity in modern railway solutions. These areas reflect the latest trends in the development of technical transport infrastructure in individual countries and are, as such, important subjects of analysis. Hence, this Special Issue of Applied Sciences is dedicated to considerations on the design, modelling, and analysis of rail transport infrastructure, rail traffic control and management, rail transport safety, the predictive operation and maintenance of railways, and cybersecurity and the digitalisation of railway systems. The main goals of the conducted scientific research, developed technologies, and prepared technical and organisational/legal solutions are the widest possible application of the principle of sustainable transport development and increasing the safety of rail transport services. An important direction of contemporary research and analysis is the search for solutions that combine a range of important functions and technologies (the manufacture of new elements from waste materials, environmental protection, noise reduction, increasing durability, and the use of modern technologies).
Dr. Jacek Kukulski
Dr. Wioletta Jackiewicz-Rek
Dr. Piotr Koziol
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- railway infrastructure, maintenance and diagnostics, modelling and simulations, railway transport problems, environmental protection, cybersecurity, High-Speed Lines
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