Recent applications of big data analytics in railway transportation systems: A survey

F Ghofrani, Q He, RMP Goverde, X Liu - Transportation Research Part C …, 2018 - Elsevier
Big data analytics (BDA) has increasingly attracted a strong attention of analysts,
researchers and practitioners in railway transportation and engineering. This urges the …

Track geometry degradation and maintenance modelling: A review

I Soleimanmeigouni, A Ahmadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Increased demand for railway transportation is creating a need for higher train speeds and
axle loads. These, in turn, increase the likelihood of track degradation and failures …

Railway infrastructure maintenance-a survey of planning problems and conducted research

T Lidén - Transportation Research Procedia, 2015 - Elsevier
Railway infrastructure maintenance consumes very large budgets, is complicated to
organize and has numerous challenging planning problems. Specifically, the coordination …

Data-driven optimization of railway maintenance for track geometry

S Sharma, Y Cui, Q He, R Mohammadi, Z Li - Transportation Research Part …, 2018 - Elsevier
Railway big data technologies are transforming the existing track inspection and
maintenance policy deployed for railroads in North America. This paper develops a data …

Data-driven predictive maintenance scheduling policies for railways

PCL Gerum, A Altay, M Baykal-Gürsoy - Transportation Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Inspection and maintenance activities are essential to preserving safety and cost-
effectiveness in railways. However, the stochastic nature of railway defect occurrence is …

A decision support approach for condition-based maintenance of rails based on big data analysis

A Jamshidi, S Hajizadeh, Z Su, M Naeimi… - … Research Part C …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a decision support approach is proposed for condition-based maintenance of
rails relying on expert-based systems. The methodology takes into account both the actual …

Estimation of railway track longitudinal irregularity using vehicle response with information compression and Bayesian deep learning

C Li, Q He, P Wang - Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In railway transportation, track geometry irregularity is one of the main factors in controlling
train safety. At present, railway practitioners typically use the track geometry car (TGC) …

Exploring the impact of foot-by-foot track geometry on the occurrence of rail defects

R Mohammadi, Q He, F Ghofrani, A Pathak… - … research part C: emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Predicting rail defects is of great importance for safe railway transportation. Using foot-by-
foot track geometry and tonnage data, this paper develops a new machine learning based …

An optimization model for integrated planning of railway traffic and network maintenance

T Lidén, M Joborn - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2017 - Elsevier
Railway transportation systems are important for society and have many challenging and
important planning problems. Train services as well as maintenance of a railway network …

Prediction of railroad track geometry change using a hybrid CNN-LSTM spatial-temporal model

X Wang, Y Bai, X Liu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Track geometry is highly important for ensuring railroad safety. Predicting track geometry
degradation can support preventive maintenance by identifying and prioritizing track …