Virtual coupling, as an emerging concept in railways, expects successive trains in a virtually
coupled train set (VCTS) to maintain a short following distance. However, this close …

Recently, virtual coupling has aroused increasing interest in regard to achieving flexible and
on-demand train operations. However, one of the main challenges in increasing the …

Virtual Coupling (VC) is a hot research topic in railways about future train operation systems.
In VC, trains will drive in a minimum distance as a convoy without physically coupled. The …

The increasing need for capacity has led the railway industry to explore new train control
systems based on a concept called virtual coupling. Inspired by the platooning of …

Automatic train control systems are complex and software-intensive cyber–physical systems.
Hazard prediction at runtime for such systems has emerged as an essential research topic …

The combined use of standard interfaces and formal methods is currently under
investigation by Shift2Rail, a joint undertaking between railway stakeholders and the EU …

This paper presents an approach in train control systems for virtual coupling. A deep
learning-based model predictive control is proposed for operations of following trains in …

Research on virtual coupling has made further progress. It needs many tests before
operation. The problem of connecting the new railway with the existing railway will arise …

Virtual coupling is a recently introduced concept to achieve flexible and on-demand train
operations. One of the main challenges in maximizing the throughput of the network is to …

Despite the development of rail transit, urban transport capacity has increased substantially.
It still faces severe jams during peaking operation periods. In this paper, inspired by artificial …