Revolutionizing railway systems: A systematic review of digital twin technologies
September 2025
Digital Twin (DT) technology is revolutionizing the railway sector by providing a virtual replica of physical systems, enabling real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and enhanced decision-making....
Development of next-generation high-speed railways: Current status, trends, and suggestions
September 2026
In recent decades, High-Speed Railway (HSR) technology has seen rapid advancements, and the knowledge system in related fields has gradually matured. Providing the speed, safety, and comfort of HSR...
Multi-class rail defect detection using advanced artificial intelligence
Available online 10 March 2026
Railway infrastructure demands continuous monitoring to ensure operational safety and prevent catastrophic failures. Conventional inspection approaches, including manual visual examination and non-destructive...
Nondestructive testing methods for rail defects detection
June 2025
The rapid progress in the construction of heavy-haul and high-speed railways has led to a surge in rail defects and unforeseen failures. Addressing this issue necessitates the implementation of more...
Machine learning in railway catenary inspection: A review of data processing techniques
September 2026
In electrified railways, the dynamic behavior of the catenary system is crucial for ensuring smooth and reliable current collection by electric trains. This process depends on the direct interaction...
Structural health monitoring of bogie system based on transfer function method
June 2026
The bogie serves as a pivotal structural and functional unit within the rail vehicle system, and any failure in its performance can critically affect the safety and reliability of railway operations....
A systematic literature review on active control technology of pantograph-catenary system in high-speed railway
June 2026
The Pantograph-Catenary System (PCS) is a critical interface for stable power acquisition in high-speed railways, and its dynamic interaction performance directly dictates the safety and reliability...
Artificial-intelligent-powered safety and efficiency improvement for controlling and scheduling in integrated railway systems
September 2024
The multi-mode integrated railway system, anchored by the high-speed railway, caters to the diverse travel requirements both within and between cities, offering safe, comfortable, punctual, and eco-friendly...
Vibration-based bearing fault diagnosis of high-speed trains: A literature review
December 2023
Due to the advantages of comfort and safety, high-speed trains are gradually becoming the mainstream public transport in China. Since the operating speed and mileage of high-speed trains have achieved...
High-Speed Railway Antenna Systems: Propagation Environments, Integration Challenges, and Future Directions
Available online 4 September 2026
Future high-speed railway systems rely heavily on secure and efficient wireless communication for train operation, passenger services, positioning, and safety-related functions. Antenna systems play...
Security of railway control systems: A survey, research issues and challenges
March 2023
With the rapid development of railway transportation, higher requirements for capacity are increasing and amount of communication, computer and control technologies are applied in train control systems...
Adapting railway sector to repel cyber threats: A critical analysis
September 2025
Given the unique challenges facing the railway industry, cybersecurity is a crucial issue that must be addressed proactively. This paper aims to provide a systematic review of cybersecurity threats...
Railway-CLIP: A multimodal model for abnormal object detection in high-speed railway
September 2025
Automated detection of suspended anomalous objects on high-speed railway catenary systems using computer vision-based technology is a critical task for ensuring railway transportation safety. Despite...
Strategies for establishing and developing an international journal in the high-speed railway field
June 2026
This paper reviews the innovative international development practices promoted by High-speed Railway (HSPR), a journal launched under the “High-Starting-Point New Journals” subprogram of the Excellence...
Enhancing coupling coefficient and efficiency in wireless power transfer: A comparison of ferrite block and magnetic composite particle material
June 2026
Magnetic components play a critical role in Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) systems by enhancing the coupling coefficient, thereby improving efficiency and power transfer capacity. In high-power WPT systems...
A trapezoidal fuzzy TOPSIS-CRITIC-based decision support model for railway track system selection: Ballasted vs. ballast-less
Available online 14 June 2026
This study presents an innovative decision-support framework for selecting optimal railway track superstructures (ballasted vs. ballast-less) by integrating technical feasibility assessment with life-cycle...
Design of self-diplexing and quadruplexing Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) antennas for C- and X-band high-speed wireless applications
September 2025
Compact antenna designs have become a critical component in the recent advancements of wireless communication technologies over the past few decades. This paper presents a self-multiplexing antenna...
Advanced 6 G wireless communication technologies for intelligent high-speed railways
March 2025
The rapid expansion of railways, especially High-Speed Railways (HSRs), has drawn considerable interest from both academic and industrial sectors. To meet the future vision of smart rail communications,...
A lightweight zero-trust architecture for dynamic train-centric networks using decentralized identity and reputation-aware consensus
Available online 15 June 2026
As vehicular networks evolve from closed architectures to open cloud-edge-end computing paradigms, traditional perimeter-based security defenses are becoming increasingly ineffective. The dynamic coupling...
A review of artificial intelligence applications in high-speed railway systems
March 2024
In recent years, the global surge of High-speed Railway (HSR) revolutionized ground transportation, providing secure, comfortable, and punctual services. The next-gen HSR, fueled by emerging services...
Exploration and practice of high speed EMU digital train based on digital twin
March 2025
Digital twin is one of the key technologies driving the digitalization and intelligence of railway transportation equipment. The development of enabling technologies such as big data, industrial internet...
High-speed railway track components inspection framework based on YOLOv8 with high-performance model deployment
March 2024
Railway inspection poses significant challenges due to the extensive use of various components in vast railway networks, especially in the case of high-speed railways. These networks demand high maintenance...
A generation-based defect detection system for rail transit infrastructure
March 2026
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for defect detection on railway slopes is becoming increasingly widespread due to their ability to capture high-resolution images over large, inaccessible,...
Systematic review of thermal insulation materials and methods in high-speed rail systems
Available online 10 May 2026
High-speed trains operate under significant thermal constraints that affect both energy consumption and passenger comfort. This systematic review examines the state of research on thermal insulation...
X-DCFR: Explainable Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Fuzzy Rule Learning for Railway Track Circuit Fault Diagnosis
Available online 12 June 2026
Deep neural network-based intelligent methods have brought new breakthroughs to fault diagnosis. However, their ‘black box’ nature hinders their implementation and widespread adoption in safety-critical...