Inspection and repair interventions play vital roles in the asset management of railways. Autonomous mobile manipulators possess considerable potential to replace humans in many hazardous railway track maintenance tasks with high efficiency. This pap...
A strong necessity for faster mass transport with high capacities and frequent runs has put pressure on railway infrastructure. These changes require an improvement in the maintenance activities that need to be planned carefully to reduce as much as...
This study develops optimal maintenance schedules for train lines, a critical endeavor ensuring the safety, efficiency, and reliability of railway networks. The study addresses the combined scheduling problem of maintenance works and crews on the rai...
Smart maintenance is essential to achieving a safe and reliable railway, but traditional maintenance deployment is costly and heavily human-involved. Ineffective job execution or failure in preventive maintenance can lead to railway service disruptio...
Maintenance, which is critical for safe, reliable, quality, and cost-effective service, plays a dominant role in the railway industry. Therefore, this paper examines the importance and applications of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in railway m...
This paper conducts a comprehensive review of the role of digitalization in railway maintenance management, particularly through the lens of the International Union of Railways (UIC) asset management framework. The study aims to assess how digital te...
The current technical condition of facilities designated for the technical–hygienic maintenance of railway rolling stock is unsatisfactory, as they are neither technologically nor technically equipped to meet the required quality standards. Mai...
A particularly important activity carried out by railway infrastructure managers to maintain railway devices in full working order is the diagnostic process. It increases the level of railway safety. The diagnostic process involves collecting informa...
Due to the importance of sensors in railway traction drives availability, sensor fault diagnosis has become a key point in order to move from preventive maintenance to condition-based maintenance. Most research works are limited to sensor fault detec...
Innovative digital twins (DTs) that allow engineers to visualise, share information, and monitor the condition during operation is necessary to optimise railway construction and maintenance. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an approach for cre...
In the last few years, many works have addressed Predictive Maintenance (PdM) by the use of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) solutions, especially the latter. The monitoring and logging of industrial equipment events, like temporal behavi...
In the last few decades, several initiatives and approaches are set up to support maintenance procedures for the railway industry in adopting the principles of Industry 4.0. Contextualized maintenance technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) overl...
Railway transportation plays a vital role in modern society, enabling the safe and efficient movement of people and goods over long distances. To ensure the longevity and safety of a railway infrastructure, the regular maintenance of tracks is crucia...
The axle box of a railway vehicle is a critical component, and its maintenance involves complex procedures that are difficult to convey with traditional, document-based manuals. To address these challenges, augmented reality (AR)-based educational co...
Conventional planning of maintenance and renewal work for railway track is based on heuristics and simple scheduling. The railway industry is now collecting a large amount of data with the fast-paced development of sensor technologies. These data set...
Embedding sensors in rail pads allows for direct monitoring of train–track interaction, which is essential for preventive maintenance and sustainable management of railway infrastructure. Nonetheless, given the critical role that rail pads play...
Recently, passenger comfort and user experience are becoming increasingly relevant for the railway operators and, therefore, for railway manufacturers as well. The main reason for this to happen is that comfort is a clear differential value considere...
Light maintenance training for electric multiple-unit components of the organization of railway operations is generally conducted using maintenance manuals and work videos, following the guidelines of each organization. These manuals are in the form...
Efficient and seamless railway operations depend on the systematic and well-coordinated maintenance of both rolling stock and infrastructure. However, track maintenance, or ‘trackwork’, can cause substantial delays if not properly aligned...
The incompleteness of the existing knowledge graphs in the railway domain creates information gaps, impacting their quality and effectiveness in the operation and maintenance of high-speed railway turnout switch machines. To address this, we propose...
(1) Background: Occupational exposure to asbestos remains a significant public health concern due to its association with pleural cancer and other cancers. This cohort study examines the incidence of asbestos-related diseases among railway carriage m...
Sustainable distribution network design for the maintenance components of electric multiple units (EMUs) is critical to reduce the problem of unreasonable resource allocation and capital occupation of high-speed railway (HSR) operations. Motivated by...
Predicting the tamping cycles of railway track sections based on track geometry deterioration rules is necessary to reasonably allocate the limited tamping maintenance resources. Existing research on track geometry deterioration modeling for tamping...
Railway catenary maintenance vehicles are essential for ensuring the safety and efficiency of electrified railway systems. The implementation of pre-optimized speed profiles significantly reduces the energy consumption while improving key operational...
Fouling and mud-pumping problems in ballasted track significantly degrade serviceability and jeopardize train operational safety. The phenomenological approaches for post hoc forensic investigation and remedies of mud pumps have relatively been well...
Railway infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme weather events such as elevated temperature, flooding, storms, intense winds, sea level rise, poor visibility, etc. These events have extreme consequences for the dependability of railway infrastructure...
A wheelset is one of the most severely worn components of railway bogies. Its health condition has a significant impact on the safety and comfort of railway trains. Moreover, wheelset maintenance costs account for a sizeable part of the railway opera...
In response to climate change, governments around the world have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to global warming, through the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and electrification of tr...
Global warming is a critical issue nowadays. Although the railway system is considered as green transportation, it cannot be denied that railway tunnels have a significant environmental impact during construction and maintenance. At the same time, as...
The highly demanding safety standards adopted in the railway context imply that cutting-edge technologies must limit accidents. This paper presents the human-centered outcomes of the VRAIL project, an industrial research project aiming to use enablin...
To adapt to the “fine” and “extensive” management characteristics of railway signal equipment operation and maintenance, achieving real-time and interactive monitoring of signal equipment operation status, and developing an in...
Maintenance is one of the major concerns of the industrial sector. Acquiring better levels of maintenance maturity is one of the objectives to be achieved. Therefore, prescriptive maintenance is one of the areas of recent research. Current works in l...
In accordance with the paradigm of the 4th and Industrial Revolution, the introduction of building information modeling is expected in all areas related to railroad construction, operation and management, along with the establishment of a metaverse p...
This scientific research presents the most significant aspects of the structural analysis and verification of the main steel railway bridges in Peru in accordance with the American standard. To this end, linear and finite element analyses (FEMs) were...
Current risk assessment in railway track maintenance operations faces challenges (low spatiotemporal accuracy, limited adaptability to various scenarios, and tendency of linear fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) methods to underestimate high-risk f...
Public–private partnership (PPP) has been extensively used in many sectors worldwide to provide alternative funding for public infrastructure. However, limited evidence found that this scheme was successfully adopted in railway transport partic...
Motivated by the potential applications of maintenance and inspection tasks for railway bridges, we have developed a biped climbing robot. The biped climbing robot can climb on the steel guardrail of the railway bridge with two electromagnetic feet a...
The capacity of some busy rail lines is increasingly tight and passenger demand far exceeds the railway capacity. To schedule as many trains as possible in order to satisfy more transportation demands, we studied the capacity-oriented train schedulin...
According to the existing personnel structure, quantity, development strategy, and market demand of the Shuohuang Railway Company’s operation and maintenance project, the demand quantity of various employees of the company for the past three ye...
During the last decade, due to the increasing importance of reliability and availability, railway industry is making greater use of fault diagnosis approaches for early fault detection, as well as Condition-based maintenance frameworks. Due to the in...
Railways play a key role in sustainable development, being one of the most ecological means of transport. The article discusses the challenges and opportunities related to the maintenance of the railway station infrastructure in Poland, in the contex...
The capability of railway emergency rescue can be enhanced by maintaining the railway emergency rescue network and upgrading its technology. Nowadays, influenced by the factors, such as resource type, personnel distribution, line level, etc., space-t...
To ensure the coordinated interaction between the beam and track of large-span bridges and achieve smooth rail transition at beam joints, rail expansion regulators and beam-end expansion devices are essential at bridge ends. However, these devices ar...
In the railway sector, rolling stock and infrastructure must be maintained in perfect condition to ensure reliable and safe operation for passengers. Climate change is affecting the urban and regional infrastructure through sea level rise, water accu...
The main purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive and systematically organized overview of the current state of vibration monitoring and measurement techniques used in railway stock. It aims to raise awareness of significant technological...
Railway infrastructures necessitate the inspection of various elements to ensure operational safety. This study concentrates on five key components: rail, sleepers and ballast, track geometry, and catenary. The operational principles of the primary d...
Railway tight and wide gauges are critical factors affecting the safety and reliability of railway systems. Undetected tight and wide gauges can lead to derailments, posing significant risks to operations and passenger safety. This study explores a n...
Nowadays, the railway industry is in a position where it is able to exploit the opportunities created by the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and enabling communication technologies under the paradigm of Internet of Trains. This review details th...
In the era of Industry 4.0, researchers have begun to more thoroughly examine digital maintenance, i.e., eMaintenance, as digitization is increasingly affecting today’s society. This area is particularly interesting in the case of long-life com...
WSNs are an important component of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the research on their routing protocols has always been a hot topic in academia. However, in ARTFMRs’ collaborative operation along railway lines, there are common problems su...
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