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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,580 Views
22 Pages

17 June 2020

In this study, a genetic algorithm was used to calculate the scheduled waiting time according to the train operation frequency of heterogeneous trains operating on one track. The acquired data were then used to determine the appropriate subsidiary tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,495 Views
17 Pages

Optimal Control Algorithm for Subway Train Operation by Proximal Policy Optimization

  • Bin Chen,
  • Chunhai Gao,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Junjie Chen,
  • Jun Chen and
  • Yuyi Li

23 June 2023

With the increasing scale of the urban subway, the total energy consumption of the subway has increased dramatically and poses a great challenge to the comfort of passengers and the punctuality of train operation. In order to ensure on-time train ope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,121 Views
32 Pages

The digital transformation of the railway industry is necessary for addressing growing challenges and advancing its sustainable development. Digital technologies include Automatic Train Operation (ATO) and Remote Train Control (RTC), which offer oppo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,215 Views
28 Pages

An Eco-Driving Algorithm for Interoperable Automatic Train Operation

  • Adrián Fernández-Rodríguez,
  • Asunción P. Cucala and
  • Antonio Fernández-Cardador

30 October 2020

The new Automatic Train Operation (ATO) system over the standard European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) will specify the requirements that an automatic train driving system must fulfil in order to be interoperable. The driving is defined by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
701 Views
18 Pages

FuzzyH Method for Distance Estimation in Autonomous Train Operation

  • Ivan Ćirić,
  • Milan Pavlović,
  • Danijela Ristić-Durrant,
  • Lubomir Dimitrov and
  • Vlastimir Nikolić

27 March 2025

For reliable autonomous train operation, detecting and classifying obstacles on or near rail tracks, and accurately estimating the distance to these obstacles, is essential. This task is more challenging in low-light conditions, common for freight tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,974 Views
24 Pages

Train Service Design for Rail Transit Cross-Line Operation Applying Virtual Coupling

  • Lishan Sun,
  • Yue Liu,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Dewen Kong,
  • Huabo Lu and
  • He Lu

3 August 2024

The cross-line operation (CO) of trains in urban rail transit is an effective method to efficiently satisfy transfer passenger travel demand as well as relieve the pressure of transfer stations. The primary problem of CO is designing train services t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
669 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2025

The accurate prediction of train acceleration is an essential requirement for Automatic Train Operation (ATO) in urban railways. While traditional single-point mass models fail to capture the distributed dynamics of coupled vehicles, multi-point mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,813 Views
25 Pages

8 August 2022

Virtual coupling uses wireless communication instead of mechanical coupling to ensure that trains are easily reconnected or disconnected. This technology can shorten the interval time between trains, give full play to the carrying capacity of lines,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,114 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2024

This paper explores the management of digitalization projects within the railway industry. It aims to increase and understand the opportunities presented by digitalization and automation in rail operations. Employing a scoping review methodology, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,700 Views
20 Pages

An Integrated Method for Reducing Arrival Interval by Optimizing Train Operation and Route Setting

  • Wenxing Wu,
  • Jing Xun,
  • Jiateng Yin,
  • Shibo He,
  • Haifeng Song,
  • Zicong Zhao and
  • Shicong Hao

14 October 2023

The arrival interval at high-speed railway stations is one of the key factors that restrict the improvement of the train following intervals. In the process of practical railway operation, sudden conflicts occur sometimes. Especially when the conflic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,961 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2023

With the continuous development of the Automatic Train Operation (ATO) system in high-speed railways, automatic driving is progressively supplanting manual operations, ushering in a new era of predictability and reliability for high-speed railway tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,597 Views
22 Pages

11 October 2019

The automatic train operation (ATO) system of urban rail trains includes a two-layer control structure: upper-layer control and lower-layer control. The upper-layer control is to optimize the target speed curve of ATO, and the lower-layer control is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,887 Views
17 Pages

24 May 2022

The network operation of the subway can reduce the number of passenger transfers and improve subway operation efficiency. Based on the subway smart card data, this paper proposes an optimal design method for the cross-line operation scheme of subway...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,223 Views
13 Pages

31 October 2022

The train operation scheme of urban rail transit is a transportation plan formulated to fully meet the needs of passenger travel under the constraints of signal system capacity, turn-back capacity, and so on. Facing an unexpected epidemic, it was par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,042 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2022

For intercity railway transportation enterprises, a reasonable intercity train operation plan is not only the foundation of the intercity railway operation organization, but also the key to the sustainable development of the intercity railway (ICR)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,380 Views
16 Pages

21 November 2023

Group train operation (GTO) applications have reduced the tracking intervals for overloaded trains, and can affect the efficiency of rail transport. In this paper, we first analyze the differences between GTO and traditional operation (TO). A new mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,157 Views
26 Pages

10 June 2017

With the energy consumption rising in rail transport, the railway sector is showing increasing interest in the energy-efficient operation of freight trains. Freight trains require more complicated driving strategies than ordinary passenger trains do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,268 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2023

In light of the improvements to the capacity and timeliness of heavy-haul railway transportation that can be organized through group trains originating at a technical station, we address a group train operation scheduling problem with freight demand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,334 Views
34 Pages

29 January 2025

In order to advocate for green and environmentally friendly travel modes, enhance the attractiveness of rail transit, and promote the sustainable development of rail transport, we focus on the transportation organization problem under limited-resourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
334 Views
28 Pages

Efficiency and Running Time Robustness in Real Metro Automatic Train Operation Systems: Insights from a Comprehensive Comparative Study

  • María Domínguez,
  • Adrián Fernández-Rodríguez,
  • Asunción P. Cucala and
  • Antonio Fernández-Cardador

18 December 2025

Automatic Train Operation (ATO) systems are widely deployed in metro networks to improve punctuality, service regularity, and ultimately the sustainability of rail operation. Although eco-driving optimisation has been extensively studied, no previous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,159 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2023

Trackside acoustic signals are useful for non-contact measurements as well as early warnings in the diagnosis of train wheelset bearing faults. However, there are two important problems when using roadside acoustic signals to diagnose wheel-to-wheel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,290 Views
24 Pages

5 May 2022

In the train operation department, the most important and dynamic factor is that the department employees are involved in all areas. Realizing the dynamic control of “key person, key event, and key period” to fundamentally curb employee i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,907 Views
19 Pages

An Empirical Study on the Design of China High-Speed Rail Express Train Operation Plan—From a Sustainable Transport Perspective

  • Xueqiao Yu,
  • Maoxiang Lang,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Ching-Hsia Su,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Mingkun Huo,
  • Xiao Yu and
  • Shiqi Li

16 July 2018

The sustained and steady development of China’s economy has led to the rapid improvement of the logistics. At the same time, the rise of the e-commerce mode has given rise to a huge demand for express delivery and the express industry has entered a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,417 Views
25 Pages

6 February 2020

In this paper, an improved multi-objective shark smell optimization algorithm using composite angle cosine is proposed for automatic train operation (ATO). Specifically, when solving the problem that the automatic train operation velocity trajectory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,436 Views
31 Pages

19 March 2020

This paper develops an improved model predictive controller based on the online obtaining of softness factor and fusion velocity for automatic train operation to enhance the tracking control performance. Specifically, the softness factor of the impro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
846 Views
34 Pages

An Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm via Angle Penalized Distance for Automatic Train Operation

  • Longda Wang,
  • Yanjie Ju,
  • Long Guo,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Chunlin Li and
  • Yan Chen

This study proposes a novel effective improved whale optimization algorithm via angle penalized distance (IWOA-APD) for automatic train operation (ATO) to effectively improve the ATO quality. Specifically, aiming at the high-quality target speed curv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,652 Views
23 Pages

9 June 2022

In the train operation department, humans are the most important and dynamic element, and their safe behavior is directly related to the safety of railway transportation. How to accurately assess the safety behavior risk of on-site workers is an urge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,998 Views
26 Pages

30 June 2019

Train operation strategy optimization is a multi-objective optimization problem affected by multiple conditions and parameters, and it is difficult to solve it by using general optimization methods. In this paper, the parallel structure and double-po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
29 Pages

If artificial intelligence (AI) is to be applied in safety-critical domains, its performance needs to be evaluated reliably. The present study investigated how humans evaluate AI systems for person detection in automatic train operation. In three exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,323 Views
18 Pages

19 March 2023

Problems of low temperature, low pressure, low oxygen, and high carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the air-conditioning (AC) trains of the Qinghai-Tibet railway can affect the health and comfort of passengers and cause altitude sickness. When the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,395 Views
33 Pages

17 May 2019

Aiming at the problem of easy-to-fall-into local convergence for automatic train operation (ATO) velocity ideal trajectory profile optimization algorithms, an improved multi-objective hybrid optimization algorithm using a comprehensive learning strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,826 Views
23 Pages

Aiming at the problem of the large tracking error of the desired curve for the automatic train operation (ATO) control strategy, an ATO control algorithm based on RBF neural network adaptive terminal sliding mode fault-tolerant control (ATSM-FTC-RBFN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,822 Views
19 Pages

Operator Training Simulator for an Industrial Bioethanol Plant

  • Inga Gerlach,
  • Sören Tholin,
  • Volker C. Hass and
  • Carl-Fredrik Mandenius

22 September 2016

Operator training simulators (OTS) are software tools for training process operators in large-scale industrial applications. Here, we describe the development, implementation and training of an OTS for a large-scale industrial plant for bioethanol pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,345 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2024

There are conflicts between the increasingly complex operational requirements and the slow rate of system platform upgrading, especially in the industry of railway transit-signaling systems. We attempted to address this problem by establishing a mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,590 Views
19 Pages

16 July 2023

Busy, complex railway stations that serve as origin and termination points for a significant proportion of trains are essential to regional railway networks. Resolving conflicts between arrival–departure operations and shunting operations of cr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,967 Views
5 Pages

Training and Equipping Chainsaw Operators and Occupational Safety in Polish Forests

  • Arkadiusz Gendek,
  • Monika Aniszewska,
  • Tomasz Nurek and
  • Tadeusz Moskalik

Despite the introduction of an increasing number of multi-purpose machines, timber harvesting is still conducted in Polish forests mainly at the manual-machine level. The basic tool used in the process of felling, delimbing, and bucking is the petrol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,354 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2017

Energy consumption for multiple trains on the urban subway line is predominantly affected by the operation strategy. This paper proposed an energy-saving operation strategy for multiple trains, which is suitable for various line conditions and comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,081 Views
29 Pages

11 August 2020

Passenger demand for railway transportation rapidly increases in peak periods, and the transport capacity for existing trains is not sufficient. Railway companies usually adopt the strategy of adding additional trains in peak periods to meet the high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,447 Views
11 Pages

16 September 2022

As the technology of the maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS) systems has geared toward autonomy, the importance of human operations in the shore control center (SCC) has gained in significance. Accordingly, the effects of the training method, inc...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,704 Views
41 Pages

3 November 2025

This research is based on a systematic review of machine learning (ML) approaches for the cognitive load (CL) assessment of applications for unmanned aerial system (UAS) operator training. The review synthesises evidence on how ML techniques have bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,358 Views
16 Pages

20 January 2023

Research in the training simulation sector to improve the realism and immersive experience of operator training simulators (OTSs) entails combining cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Although most of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
26,841 Views
18 Pages

Conceptualising the Impact of Arousal and Affective State on Training Outcomes of Operant Conditioning

  • Melissa J. Starling,
  • Nicholas Branson,
  • Denis Cody and
  • Paul D. McGreevy

11 April 2013

Animal training relies heavily on an understanding of species-specific behaviour as it integrates with operant conditioning principles. Following on from recent studies showing that affective states and arousal levels may correlate with behavioural o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,123 Views
21 Pages

5 October 2023

The article focuses on the study of the impact of the level of training of security control operators (SCOs) at airports on the energy consumption of the passenger baggage control process. With the constant growing emphasis on security at airports, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,194 Views
11 Pages

14 September 2022

The enhancement of navigators’ ability has been promoted by on-scene training; however, considering the safety and repeatability, simulation training (ST) is recommended. Notably, the training of maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS) remote o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,025 Views
22 Pages

28 February 2024

In the era of shrinking resources of traditional fossil fuels and the increasingly dominant sustainable development policy, actions are taken to reduce energy consumption as much as possible, assuming that we achieve identical operational goals. Thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
602 Views
33 Pages

30 June 2025

Periodic train timetables provide passengers with easily accessible rail transport services. However, in networked railway operations, some long-distance cross-line trains have high operational priority and pose difficulties for scheduling local serv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,004 Views
11 Pages

4 February 2022

The development of autonomous ships has begun. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be partially responsible for navigation; nevertheless, the importance of human intervention is higher than ever. Human intervention in the control of an autono...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,356 Views
23 Pages

Efficiency of VR-Based Safety Training for Construction Equipment: Hazard Recognition in Heavy Machinery Operations

  • Ankit Shringi,
  • Mehrdad Arashpour,
  • Emadaldin Mohammadi Golafshani,
  • Abbas Rajabifard,
  • Tim Dwyer and
  • Heng Li

28 November 2022

Machinery operations on construction sites result in many serious injuries and fatalities. Practical training in a virtual environment is the key to improving the safety performance of machinery operators on construction sites. However, there is limi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,802 Views
24 Pages

Public Norms in the Operation Scheme of Urban Rail Transit Express Trains: The Case of the Beijing Changping Line

  • Shenghan Zhou,
  • Houxiang Liu,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Bang Chen,
  • Yuliang Zhou and
  • Wenbing Chang

26 June 2021

The development of urban rail transit is of great significance to the sustainable development of cities. However, the formulation of public norms of the urban rail transit train operation scheme lacks the corresponding theoretical support, rationalit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,018 Views
13 Pages

11 December 2020

While urban maglev trains have the advantage of being optimized for urban environments where noise is low and dust is less generated, their driving efficiency is low when compared to rotary induction motors owing to the structural limitations of line...

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