International Journal of Rail Transportation

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): Wanming Zhai and Kelvin C. P. Wang

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Volume 13, issue 5, 2025

Advancements and applications of digital twin in the railway industry: a literature review pp. 865-890

Dharmendra Kushwaha, Ankit Kumar and S. P. Harsha

Analysis of the features of wheel out-of-roundness and construction of the wheel roughness spectrum of high-speed trains pp. 891-907

Gongquan Tao, Chenxi Xie, Peng Wang, Zefeng Wen and Yu Ren

Experimental investigation of wheel rail adhesion under leaf contamination conditions pp. 908-927

Jiajun Zhou, Wenliang Zhu, Chun Tian, Mengling Wu and Gengwei Zhai

Study on the optimization of solid particle additives in top-of-rail friction modifiers based on a twin-disc testing apparatus pp. 928-948

Bing-Nan Wu, Jia-Xin Li, Hao-Hao Ding, Lu-Bing Shi, Xin-Xin Song, Jun Guo, Shu-Yue Zhang, Wen-Jian Wang, Roger Lewis and Enrico Meli

Vertical vibration characteristics of wheelset-gearbox-bogie frame system in different track irregularity conditions: simulation and full-scale test pp. 949-967

Pengfei Liu, Zhaoxin Ma, Shaopu Yang, Zechao Liu, Xiaohui Gu, Meiqi Wang and Yongjun Shen

Acoustic optimization design for the laying schemes on the composite roof structure of high-speed train pp. 968-987

Leixin Huang, Xinbiao Xiao, Qi Wang, Ruiqian Wang, Jie Zhang and Yang Liu

Curve squeal of modern tramcars: comparison between independently rotating wheels and solid axles pp. 988-1005

Federico Castellini, Leonardo Faccini, Egidio Di Gialleonardo, Stefano Alfi and Roberto Corradi

Metro train rescheduling approach during the transitional period pp. 1006-1023

Wei Wang, Yindong Ji, Shuai Su, Hao Peng and Zhikai Wang

Experimental evaluation on dynamic performance of medium–low-speed maglev vehicle running on low-positioned subgrade pp. 1024-1040

Lingxiao Zong, Miao Li, Mengchun Pan, Qi Zhang and Weihua Ma

Dynamic evolution of high-speed railway driver fatigue across scheduling shifts – a simulator study in China pp. 1041-1058

Yufan Chen, Yang Zhang, Qing Pan, Lanxi Wei, Yubo Jiao, Chaozhe Jiang, Zhiqiang Sun and Lei Hou

Volume 13, issue 4, 2025

Correction pp. iii-iii

The Editors

An experimental analysis of dynamic deformation and settlement resistance in a novel prestressed railway subgrade pp. 635-658

Qishu Zhang, Fang Xu, Junli Dong, Wuming Leng and Yafeng Li

A model-based approach for joint estimation of track irregularities and track support modulus from trackside measurements in railway turnouts pp. 659-681

Seyed Mohammad Asadzadeh, Pegah Barkhordari and Roberto Galeazzi

An optimal scheduling method for heavy haul trains with virtual coupling technology pp. 682-707

Lezhou Wu, Hao Ye, Wei Dong, Ming Jiang, Xiaoquan Yu and Zongqi Xu

An artificial potential field approach for event-triggered cooperative control of multiple high-speed trains with free initial states pp. 708-731

Yusha Zhang, Deqing Huang, Yue Wu, Lei Zhu and Yong Chen

Railway condition information modelling in a BIM framework for maintenance applications pp. 732-752

Gaetano Bosurgi, Orazio Pellegrino, Alessia Ruggeri and Giuseppe Sollazzo

Mechanism of rail corrugation formation on metro curves with a type of floating-slab track pp. 753-772

Wei Li, Shenglu Zhou, Zefeng Wen and Xuesong Jin

A pantograph-catenary arcing detection model for high-speed railway based on semantic segmentation and generative adversarial network pp. 773-794

Xiaohong Liu, Xiaoyu Wang, Wei Quan, Guoxin Gu, Xiaoqian Xu and Shibin Gao

A skip feature enhanced multi-source fusion framework for switch state detection pp. 795-815

Sumin Zhang, Ri Bai, Rui He, Zhiwei Meng and Yongshuai Zhi

Aerodynamic noise analysis of the skirting board under an ultra-high-speed train based on bidimensional empirical mode decomposition pp. 816-838

Zongfa Zhang, Xinbiao Xiao, Jian Han and Xuesong Jin

Electrical damage mechanism analysis of traction motor bearings on high-speed trains considering overvoltage impulse pp. 839-863

S. Xiao, T. Zhu, G.N. Wu, Jd. Yan, Gq. Gao, Yj. Guo, Xq. Zhang, Y. Cao, Zj. Wang, Jz. Duan and X. Liu

Volume 13, issue 3, 2025

Fouling conditions and associated deformation characteristics of railway ballast pp. 425-443

Md Hamidur Rahman, Md Habibullah Bhuyan and Kimitoshi Hayano

Towards digital twin trains: implementing a cloud-based framework for railway vehicle dynamics simulation pp. 444-467

Zhao Tang, Liang Ling, Tao Zhang, Yuwei Hu, Kaiyun Wang and Wanming Zhai

Reliability assessment of ballasted railway bridges considering soil-structure interaction using ensemble of surrogate models pp. 468-489

Reza Allahvirdizadeh, Andreas Andersson and Raid Karoumi

Dynamic behaviours of rack vehicle-track system considering rack flexibility under gear-rack mesh impact pp. 490-510

Jieyu Ning, Zaigang Chen, Zhihui Chen, Jizhong Yang and Wanming Zhai

A new method of rapid-intelligent assessment for the dynamic service performance in high-speed railway subgrade pp. 511-538

Zhi-xing Deng, Kang Xie, Wu-Bin Wang, Qian Su, Lin-Rong Xu, Jia-Shen Li and Bao Liu

Influence of P2 resonance of metro wheel–rail system on fatigue failure of rail fastening clips pp. 539-556

Han Zhang, Qinghua Guan and Zefeng Wen

Experiment and analysis of train-induced metro depot vibration pp. 557-577

Zhaowei Chen, Song Peng, Hong Xu, Qiang Yin and Jianting Zhou

A preliminary study on generation of axle box vibration spectra for metro vehicles in China using the developed spectral synthesis method pp. 578-596

Tengfei Wang, Jinsong Zhou, Kai Zhou, Dao Gong and Zhanfei Zhang

Investigation of transient aerodynamic pressure of a high-speed train nose passing from a stationary one in a high-speed rotary scaled test setup pp. 597-613

Shahin Yousefi and Mohmmad Reza Talaee

Study on driving safety of vehicle-bridge interaction system based on ultra-high-dimensional point-selected extremum methods pp. 614-633

Ziji Zhou, Wei Liu, Qi Tao, Zenong Cheng and Nan Zhang

Volume 13, issue 2, 2025

New experimental evidences of corrugation formation due to rail longitudinal vibration mode pp. 209-230

Pan Zhang and Zili Li

Rail surface damage management through monitoring and modelling pp. 231-247

Pelin Boyacioglu and Adam Bevan

A method for predicting vibration characteristics of track structure based on rail acceleration and deep learning pp. 248-268

Xiaopei Cai, Yuqi Wang, Xueyang Tang and Zhipei Chen

A step-by-step experimental characterization of a low-height acoustic barrier for railway applications pp. 269-286

João Lázaro, Pedro Alves Costa and Luís Godinho

Interior sound quality evaluation of high- speed trains -a literature review pp. 287-312

Kun Qian, Zhenghua Shen, Jing Tan, Ke Liu, Yanfu Wang, Haoyang Li and Jian Zhao

Numerical study on the quadrupole sound source in aerodynamic noise of high-speed pantographs pp. 313-331

Deng Qin, Tian Li, Ning Zhou and Jiye Zhang

Multi-objective optimization of electro-pneumatic braking process with fuzzy logic control for heavy haul railway applications pp. 332-351

Jony Javorski Eckert, Ícaro Pavani Teodoro, Matheus Valente Lopes, Qing Wu and Auteliano A. Santos

A hybrid machine learning approach for train trajectory reconstruction under interruptions considering passenger demand pp. 352-380

Zishuai Pang, Liwen Wang and Li Li

Suspension parameter optimization for high-speed train with severe tread wear pp. 381-401

Hu Li, Yuan Yao and Xiangwang Chen

Field assessment of different tamping operations for newly constructed or renovated railway tracks pp. 402-424

Paulo Pereira, Rosângela Motta, Alfredo Gay Neto, Liedi Bernucci, Edson Moura, Ronaldo Silva and Luciano Oliveira

Volume 13, issue 1, 2025

Investigating effects of tire geo-scrap reinforcement on shear strength characteristics of railway ballast using large-scale direct shear test pp. 1-22

Morteza Esmaeili, Hamidreza Heydari, Sara Darvishi and Maziar Mokhtari

Serviceability of railway slab track foundations with retaining walls under train loading pp. 23-48

Pengju Lyu, Qiang Luo, Tengfei Wang, David P. Connolly and Qingzhi Ye

Reliability assessment of freight wagon passing through railway turnouts using adaptive Kriging surrogate model pp. 49-68

Jun Lai, Kai Wang, Yan Shi, Jingmang Xu, Jiayin Chen, Ping Wang and Michael Beer

Integration of brake block thermal equations within a railway vehicle multibody model: a multiphysics approach pp. 69-84

M. Magelli, N. Zampieri and Q. Wu

A two-step data-driven method for predicting the wear of train wheel treads using GA-BPNN and LSTM algorithms pp. 85-102

Saisai Liu, Qixin He, Wenjie Fu and Qibo Feng

Development of an optical sensing system for the detection of lubricity conditions on the rail gage face pp. 103-119

Yang Chen, S. Morteza H. Mirzaei, Carvel Holton and Mehdi Ahmadian

Field measurements of aerodynamic pressures induced by suburban rail transit train passing through double-track tunnel with mid-partition wall pp. 120-150

Kang Xiong, Miaocheng Weng, Zhenbo Zou, Xinyi Zhu and Fang Liu

Robust optimization modelling of passenger evacuation control in urban rail transit for uncertain and sudden passenger surge pp. 151-170

Sijia Hao, Rui Song and Shiwei He

Load-bearing capacity of composite honeycomb sandwich high-speed train floor pp. 171-188

Shanshan Shi, Hengyuan Shi, Hangyu Lv, Mengen Wang, Xin Zhou and Zhiting Zhao

Combining iterative modal strain energy method with BEM-SEA to predict structural noise from railway composite bridge damped with CLD pp. 189-207

Xihao Jiang, Haoqing Li, Xiaozhen Li, Di Wu, Yao Yuan and Lin Liang