Spatial-Temporal Modeling for Railway Point Cloud: An Efficient 3D Framework with Mamba and A New Benchmark
Available online 10 September 2026
3D point cloud semantic segmentation plays a significant role in scene understanding and has been widely applied in various downstream tasks, such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. In this...
Turnout fault prediction based on sparse autoencoder fusion attention mechanism and Bi-LSTM
Available online 5 September 2026
Railway turnout (RT) equipment is an important component of railway signaling systems, and its reliable operation is essential for railway safety. To improve maintenance efficiency and ensure equipment...
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...
A Safety-Shielded Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Virtual Coupling Train Following under Uncertainty and Communication Delay Conditions
Available online 4 September 2026
Virtual Coupling (VC) aims to reduce inter-train following distances by relying on relative braking and vehicle-to-vehicle information exchange. Although VC train-following control is commonly addressed...
Investigation of temperature field during prefabrication stage of the high-speed rail 32m box girder based on numerical analysis and monitoring data
Available online 4 September 2026
This study investigates the heat of hydration and internal temperature field of concrete in the precast construction stage of the 32m box girder for high-speed rail. The aim is to guide early thermal...
Structural Vibration Displacement Measurement Using Point Tracking Based on Prior Physical Assumptions
Available online 2 September 2026
To address tracking difficulties in weak-texture regions and the limited robustness of traditional vision-based structural vibration measurement methods to visual interference, this paper proposes an...
The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of High-Speed Railway: Immediate Local Gains and Lagged Spatial Spillovers
Available online 16 July 2026
This study investigates the economic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR) with a focus on their temporal heterogeneity and underlying mechanisms. Employing a spatial difference-in-differences (spatial DID)...
Rail-GAN: Domain-Aware QoS Data Augmentation Framework for Link-State Prediction in Railway Cooperative Transmission
Available online 13 July 2026
In heterogeneous railway cooperative transmission systems, accurate link-state prediction (e.g., QoS metrics like throughput and latency) is crucial for multipath scheduling. However, collecting large-scale...
Mechanical performance and interfacial damage of slab track with a gradient distribution of polymer in SCC under various conditions
Available online 10 July 2026
To mitigate the progressive interfacial deterioration between the track slab and the self-compacting concrete (SCC) under complex service environments in high-speed railways, a material strategy employing...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
Dynamics identification of guideway girder and assessment of the effects on high-speed maglev vehicle–guideway coupled system
June 2026
The guideway girder is a key supporting component that ensures the safe and stable operation of high-speed maglev systems. Taking the Shanghai high-speed maglev demonstration line as the background,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Flexible Insertion and Overtaking Strategies for Large-Scale High-Speed Passenger-Freight Operations
Available online 10 June 2026
To address the underutilization of high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure alongside growing large-scale freight demand, this paper proposes an integrated optimization framework for HSR passenger-freight...
Analysis and Suppression of Thrust Ripples in the Integrated Propulsion, Levitation and Guidance System of EDS Maglev Trains
Available online 28 May 2026
Low-temperature superconducting Maglev trains are considered a promising candidate for future transportation due to their superior levitation height and robust self-stability. The integrated Propulsion,...
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...
Anti-Derailment Effect of a New Split-Type anti-disaster pile for High-Speed Trains
Available online 15 May 2026
With the rapid development of high-speed railways, safety issues during train operations have become increasingly prominent, especially the secondary disasters caused by derailments. This study proposes...
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],...