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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Research on stiffness and consistent mass matrices for the tapered three-dimensional beam using a force-based method
June 2026
For variable-section high-speed railway bridges, such as continuous girders and rigid-frame bridges, tapered 3D beam elements are frequently utilized to model bridge components. However, current high-speed...
Intelligent monitoring of longitudinal rail force using time series forecasting large language models
Available online 26 May 2026
High-speed railways constitute a critical component of modern transportation infrastructure. However, the longitudinal rail force, influenced by cyclic train loads and environmental conditions, poses...
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...
Brain-inspired memory architecture for condition monitoring based on hippocampal-neocortical complementary learning
June 2026
This paper tackles the critical challenge of catastrophic forgetting and inefficient learning in artificial intelligence models processing continuous, non-stationary data streams. Inspired by neurobiological...
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...
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...
An analytical solution to track bridge interaction
Available online 12 May 2026
This article presents a comprehensive algebraic approach to the Track-Bridge Interaction (TBI) problem [1]. The core contribution is an analytical solution to the governing differential equations [2],...
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,...
Audio fault detection for high-voltage cable terminations
June 2026
This paper addresses the challenge of weak discharge characteristics being masked by strong background noise in the acoustic detection of partial discharges in high-speed train high-voltage cable terminals....
Depth-dependent hybrid ground improvement for high-speed railway foundations in saline–gypsiferous soils: Field investigation and strategy development
Available online 9 May 2026
The development of High-Speed Railway (HSR) corridors in arid and semi-arid regions is often hindered by complex geotechnical challenges linked to problematic soils. In such projects, achieving stringent...