A comprehensive review of railway track condition monitoring: From sensor selection to data processing for defect-oriented, task-driven applications
June 2026
This comprehensive review examines recent advances in railway track condition monitoring, summarizing state-of-the-art sensor technologies and data-driven analytical approaches. Representative monitoring...
A critical review of operations research on the operation and maintenance of railway systems
December 2025
The railway system plays a critical role in modern transportation networks. To ensure its sustainable and reliable operation, conducting efficient operation and maintenance becomes the utmost concern...
Intelligent detection technologies for tunnel lining structural defects based on ground penetrating radar images: Research status, challenges, and prospects
September 2026
Tunnel lining structures are susceptible to internal defects over long-term service. As ground penetrating radar (GPR) enables continuous scanning and offers nondestructive, efficient inspection, it...
Seismic safety of high-speed railway train track bridge systems: research progress, disaster mechanisms, and mitigation strategies
October 2025
High-speed railway (HSR), as a rapid and efficient mode of transportation, is undergoing significant development in China. Bridge structures are widely utilized owing to their superior adaptability...
CSwinUKAN: An enhanced U-Net architecture with swin-transformer and Kolmogorov–Arnold network modification for tunnel lining cracks segmentation
June 2026
Concrete is the most widely utilized material for tunnel linings. However, concrete structures are prone to cracking due to various environmental factors or actions. The formation and propagation of...
Trends and perspectives in structural health monitoring through edge computing: A review with zero-shot natural language processing categorization
December 2025
The integration of edge computing into Structural Health Monitoring presents a transformative shift, overcoming limitations in latency, scalability, and centralized data processing. This review conducts...
A review of sensing technologies and artificial intelligence-based data analysis for railway ballast health monitoring
March 2026
Maintaining the health of railway track ballast is a foundational task in assuring the reliability and operational safety of the track infrastructure. Industry-wise, there is a shift in emphasis from...
A Survey of Coupled Vibration Characteristics and Control Methods in Maglev Transportation: Challenges, Methods and Progress
December 2025
As an advanced rail transportation technology, maglev trains have emerged as a significant research focus in the transportation field due to their advantages of contactless operation, low energy consumption,...
Vibration assessment and mitigation for an over-track building in a large-scale transportation hub induced by subway and high-speed railway trains
June 2026
This paper investigates the structural vibration issues in an airport hotel, a specific type of building, induced by subway and high-speed railway (HSR) operations. Firstly, an assessment framework...
Numerical investigation of hydrodynamic forces on twin cylindrical piers with open-channel flow
September 2026
Twin cylindrical bridge piers are widely used in practical engineering and inevitably impacted by open-channel flow during their service life, i.e., floods. In this paper, numerical analyses are conducted...
Traction system capacity and operational quality of the EDS transportation system based on the real-time simulation platform
September 2026
•For the first time, a real-time simulation assessment at a full speed range of 600 km/h was conducted on a digital test line spanning three stations and two sections with a total length of 106 km,...
Sensitivity and reliability analysis for track structures based on probability statistics
September 2026
This study integrates field-measured train load and temperature load data into the sensitivity and reliability analysis framework of the slab track, thereby overcoming the limitations of existing studies...
Flue gas carbonation curing under ambient pressure: A sustainable approach for precast railway concrete products
September 2026
This study investigates the ambient-pressure flue gas carbonation curing of wet-cast concrete, aiming to improve concrete performance through CO₂ utilization. High-pressure flue gas carbonation and...
A combined fuzzy control method for virtual coupling trains under different wheel-rail adhesion conditions
September 2026
Virtual coupling technology has become an important research focus in urban railway systems because of its potential to enhance operational efficiency and transportation capacity. Although many urban...
Modelling of ground-borne vibration due to a spatially periodic harmonic moving load in soils with vertical parameter variability using TLM-PML
June 2026
Train-induced environmental vibration has become an increasingly critical issue in recent years due to rapid urbanization and the large-scale expansion of urban transportation infrastructure. For accurate...
Transfer learning-based scoping prediction for train induced ground vibration using both simulated and experimental data
December 2025
Rapid scoping prediction of train-induced ground vibrations along the route is crucial during the planning phase of a metro line. Recently, machine learning methods have emerged for rapid prediction...
A bibliometric mapping study on advances in the operational safety of maglev trains
December 2025
Magnetic levitation (maglev) trains represent a pivotal advancement in high-speed transportation. However, research on their aerodynamics and operational safety is complex and fragmented across various...
Balancing superplasticizer and alkali-free accelerator for optimal high-performance shotcrete (HPS)
June 2026
•Dosage-dependent interaction between SP and alkali-free accelerator in HPS was studied.•A 2% SP dosage optimized HPS pumpability but reduced accelerator efficiency and diminished strength.•An alkali-free...
Mechanistic insights into shrinkage mitigation in low-heat portland cement by the combined use of MEA and SRA
June 2026
Drying-shrinkage cracking is an important durability concern in railway concrete, especially for ballastless track structures that require strict dimensional stability. Combining low-heat Portland cement...
Numerical study of load transfer in conventional and X-shaped sleeper-ballast systems under impact loading
March 2026
To investigate the dynamic response and load transfer in ballasted tracks under impact loading, this study developed full-scale three-dimensional discrete element-multi-body dynamics (DEM-MBD) coupled...
Chloride diffusion and life prediction of railway concrete box girders based on cellular automata
September 2026
Addressing the coupled effects of chloride erosion and freeze-thaw cycling faced by concrete box girders in extreme cold and salt-eroded environments, this paper takes a 32 m prestressed concrete simply...
Dynamic cumulative effect of ballast settlement considering sleeper void using 3D Train–ballasted track model
March 2026
The uneven ballast settlement caused by the train cyclic load affects the dynamic response of the train-railway ballast system, and this further accelerate the development of ballast settlement. In...
Prediction of fire-induced steel beam deformation using machine learning algorithms
December 2025
The versatility of steel in the construction industry stems from its advantages over other construction materials. Despite that, its poor resistance to fire has remained a serious concern. Several research...
Effect of AMPS-based polycarboxylate superplasticizer on early hydration of cement and its mechanism
December 2025
2-acrylamide-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS) has attracted much attention in the field of admixture design because of its highly electronegative sulfonic acid groups. However, the number of AMPS...
Running safety of high-speed railway cable-stayed-suspension hybrid system bridges under seismic action
March 2026
Cable-stayed-suspension hybrid bridges offer high rigidity and strong spanning capacity. This study takes a 1488 m main-span hybrid bridge for combined highway-railway use as the research object. A...
