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 …

The efficiency and availability of modern railway infrastructure plays an increasingly
strategic role in the sustainability, development and prosperity of communities and nations …

High-speed train is a large-scale electromechanical coupling equipment with a complex
structure, where the coupling is interlaced between various system components, and the …

Rail car safety and stability are important factors for good performance. The most used safety
index to quantify railway safety is the ratio between the lateral and vertical wheel rail contact …

A high number of accidents in railway level crossing causes loss of life and material.
Furthermore, the losses are also experienced by users of traffic on the highway such as …

Soft-sensing and state-space-based methods play crucial roles in fault-tolerant sensor
fusion schemes. Kalman filtering is one of the most employed sensor fusion methods. In …

The dynamic performance of railway vehicles needs to be carefully monitored to ensure their
safe operation. Presently a number of systems such as the Vehicle Track Interaction Monitor …

This work aims at investigating how variations in measured stresses are affected by track
conditions and, if possible, extract information on track conditions from onboard …

This study aims to develop a method for predicting the size of deviations beyond standard
values in railway tracks. Despite significant progress made in the predictive maintenance of …