Railway industry plays a critical role in transportation and transit systems attributed to the ever-growing demand for catering to both freight and passengers. However, owing to many challenges faced by railway stations such as harsh environments, tr...
This study examines railway network resilience through a complex network analysis of both the physical infrastructure and service operations. The objectives were to quantify the resilience characteristics of China’s railway network, assess its...
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...
The article presents a vision system for detecting elements of railway track. Four types of fasteners, wooden and concrete sleepers, rails, and turnouts can be recognized by our system. In addition, it is possible to determine the degree of sleeper b...
The determination of the optimal interventions to execute on rail infrastructure networks is a challenging task, due to the many types of objects (e.g., bridges, tracks, and switches), how the objects work together to provide service, and the possibl...
The rapid increase of train speed has brought greater challenges to the safety and reliability of railway systems. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the operation status of trains, infrastructure, and their operating environment in real time. Bec...
Deeply understanding the dynamic operating characteristics of high-speed railway (HSR) systems is of essential significance in theory and practice for the planning, construction, and operational management of HSR systems. In this paper, the HSR syste...
Digital management of modern railway bridges, a substantial part of high-speed railway networks, is often hindered by manual interpretation of construction drawings for Building Information Modeling (BIM). While individual technologies like optical c...
This paper investigates the quality of mobile network coverage along the Riga–Tukums railway corridor with a focus on the performance of 4G and 5G technologies. Ensuring reliable mobile connectivity along suburban railway corridors remains a si...
Optimizing railway station operations necessitates the identification of critical track sections that constrain design throughput capacity under fixed infrastructure conditions. This paper proposes a novel multi-layer complex network-based approach f...
Railways constitute a core component of China’s national comprehensive transportation network, and their spatial organization and temporal accessibility jointly shape transport integration and system efficiency. Identifying their evolution from...
Ensuring robust railway safety is paramount for efficient and reliable transportation systems, a challenge increasingly addressed through advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). This review paper comprehensively explores the burgeoning role of...
Determining the interventions, e.g., maintenance, renewal, improvement and extension, to be included in an infrastructure program requires the consideration of the asset, intervention, traffic, and network characteristics. This, in turn, requires the...
Evaluation of the railway network distribution and its impacts on social and economic development has great significance for building an efficient and comprehensive railway system. To address the lack of evaluation indicators to assess the railway ne...
The planning of urban transportation infrastructure and land-related policies has a significant impact on the living conditions of urban residents and socio-economic development, particularly in emerging economies. As urbanization continues to advanc...
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...
One of the most challenging technical implementations of today is self-driving vehicles. An important segment of self-driving is the ability of the computer to “see/detect” objects of interest at a distance which enables safe vehicle oper...
With the increase of the railway operating mileage, the railway network is becoming more and more complicated. We expect to build more railway lines to offer the possibility to offer more high quality service for the passengers, while the investment...
This study is oriented towards the investigation of the spatiotemporal variability of the lightning activity over the railway network in Sri Lanka using -lightning data from 1998 to 2014 that were downloaded from the database of Lightning Imaging Sen...
The internal structure and operation rules of railway network have become increasingly complex along with the expansion of the network, putting a higher demand on the development of the railway and the reliability and adaptability of the railway unde...
We principally focus on evaluating the local and entire network performance of railway stations for sustainable logistics management in South Korea. Specifically, we aim to address the issue of dealing with vulnerability in logistics dependent on the...
Resilience and the efficiency of transportation systems are crucial for the economic development of geographical areas, and network analysis applied to railways can provide insight into the importance of branch lines and their impacts on the entire s...
This paper is devoted to developing a line-planning approach for high-speed railway networks merging newly built railway lines, which result in the change of the network’s original structure and some passengers’ travel routes. In order to...
As the passenger railway network is expanding and improving, the internal connections and interdependence in the network are rising. Once a sudden geological hazard occurs and damages the network structure, the train service is prone to large-scale h...
Capacity calculations are essential for the long-term planning of railway infrastructure. Many of the methods currently used in practice calculate characteristic capacity values separately for the single elements (mainly lines and nodes) of a railway...
Since the new century, countries in Africa have started a new round of rail network planning and construction which brings the completed different features together with the spatial organization of the railway network during the colonial period. Alon...
Railway networks are among the many physical systems that reveal a fractal structure. This paper studies the Portuguese railway system, and analyzes how it evolved over time, namely what concerns the structure of its different levels, and its distrib...
Delving into the spatiotemporal evolution of the railway network in different periods can provide guidance and reference for the planning and layout of the railway network. However, most of the existing studies tended to model the railway data separa...
Good connectivity and accessibility help to enhance the competitiveness of regions and countries. This research provides a detailed analysis of the connectivity and accessibility of the Chinese railway network. The studied period starts in 1949 and e...
The Republic of Korea has played a leading role in the development of next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) public safety networks. The LTE-based public safety (PS-LTE) network, the LTE-based high-speed railway (LTE-R) network, and the LTE-based...
The analysis of transport networks is an important component of urban and regional development and planning. Based on the four main stages of China’s railway development from 2008 to 2017, this paper analyzes the hierarchical and spatial hetero...
In the planning stage of the intercity railway network, the ecological sensitivity evaluation of the planning scheme is not only the key content to explore the ecological environmental rationality of the planning scheme but also a scientific means to...
Railway carbon emissions reduction is of great significance. In this study, carbon emission efficiency in railway transportation in China’s 31 provinces is measured for 2006–2019 based on an unexpected output slack-based measure (SBM) mod...
Urban sprawl has become a notable feature in China. Previous studies have found that railway development has a significant effect on urban sprawl. However, the detailed mechanisms of how railways affect urban sprawl have not been studied in depth. Fu...
Railway networks have different levels of development, which affects the overall transport process and integrated sustainable development. This paper presents a methodology to assess and classify the railway network performance along the Trans-Europe...
In recent decades, Bangkok has experienced substantial investments in its urban railway network, resulting in a profound transformation of the city’s landscape. This study examines the relationship between railway development and property value...
This study proposes a novel model to quantitatively evaluate functionality loss in railway network systems during earthquakes and assesses its applicability to a hypothetical railway network system. The model combines seismic fragility functions and...
The virtualization and automation of network functions will be key features of future high-speed railway networks, which have to provide dependable, safe, and secure services. The virtualization of railway network functions will enable functions such...
Ultra-high-speed railway communication systems face several technical challenges due to extremely high mobility, including Doppler-induced channel variations, frequent handovers, and increasing network traffic. These challenges not only degrade commu...
As air pollution becomes increasingly severe, express trains play a more important role in shifting road freight and reducing carbon emissions. Thus, the design of railway express shipment service networks has become a key issue, which needs to be ad...
The Internet of Railways (IoR) network is made up of a variety of sensors, actuators, network layers, and communication systems that work together to build a railway system. The IoR’s success depends on effective communication. A network of railways...
For high-speed railway operations at the network level, unforeseen events that lead to operation interruptions are inevitable, which should be handled within a short period of time to reduce the influence of the events as much as possible. This paper...
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...
China’s transportation industry has made great achievements in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. At the same time, it has gradually accumulated a series of problems. These problems have led to closer and more complex social and econom...
Rail transportation is one of the most environmentally friendly systems; however, it generates noise and vibrations in the vicinity of railway lines. Therefore, the operation of railways requires appropriate measurements to analyze interactions betwe...
With the promotion of Engineering Procurement Construction mode in railway construction projects, collaborative management between design and construction has faced increasing challenges due to complexities of the participants and the various profess...
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of machine learning-based intrusion detection methods to reveal cyber attacks in railway axle counting networks. In contrast to the state-of-the-art works, our experimental results are validated with...
To lighten the workload of train drivers and enhance railway transportation safety, a novel and intelligent method for railway turnout identification is investigated based on semantic segmentation. More specifically, a railway turnout scene perceptio...
Could the connectivity of a global railway network increase through small changes in the timetable services? When designing railway schedules, transfer connections to intermediate stations may not be the primary focus considered. However, they may ha...
Railway infrastructure safety is a paramount concern, with bolt integrity being a critical component. In the realm of railway maintenance, the detection of missing bolts is a vital task that ensures the stability and safety of tracks. Traditionally,...
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