As a large energy consumer, the railway systems in many countries have been electrified
gradually for the purposes of performance improvement and emission reduction. With the …

Advances in voltage-source converters (VSCs), as well as their successful application in
VSC-HVDC systems, have motivated growing interests and research in medium-voltage …

Electric rail transit systems are the large consumers of energy. In trains with regenerative
braking capability, a fraction of the energy used to power a train is regenerated during …

The smart grid paradigm has provided great opportunities to decrease energy consumption
and electricity bills of end users. Among a wide variety of end users, electrical railway …

The increasing development of railway systems around the world is leading the scientific
community to a growing interest in studying the coupling between different railway …

A low-level distributed nonlinear controller for a DC MicroGrid integrated in a Smart Railway
Station capable to recover trains' braking energy is introduced in this paper. The DC …

This article provides an overview of modern technologies and implemented projects in the
field of renewable energy systems for the electrification of railway transport. In the first part …

The proposed optimal energy management system balances the energy flows among the
energy consumption by accelerating trains, energy production from decelerating trains …

This work tends to exploit the existing DC infrastructures to integrate the photovoltaic solar
panels and Electrical Vehicles (EVs) charger infrastructures along with public transportation …

This paper presents a modified power supply system based on the current alternating
current (AC)-fed railways with neutral zones that can further improve the eco-friendliness …