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 …

A review of rail track degradation prediction models

A Falamarzi, S Moridpour, M Nazem - Australian Journal of Civil …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The increase in traffic congestion in urban areas as a result of more private transport
intensifies the importance of promoting public transport and rail transport in particular. The …

Improving rail network velocity: A machine learning approach to predictive maintenance

H Li, D Parikh, Q He, B Qian, Z Li, D Fang… - … Research Part C …, 2014 - Elsevier
Rail network velocity is defined as system-wide average speed of line-haul movement
between terminals. To accommodate increased service demand and load on rail networks …

Learning from accidents: Machine learning for safety at railway stations

H Alawad, S Kaewunruen, M An - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In railway systems, station safety is a critical aspect of the overall structure, and yet,
accidents at stations still occur. It is time to learn from these errors and improve conventional …

Prediction of railcar remaining useful life by multiple data source fusion

Z Li, Q He - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, railway networks are instrumented with various wayside detectors. Such
detectors, automatically identifying potential railcar component failures, are able to reduce …

Train wheel diagnostics by laser ultrasonics

A Cavuto, M Martarelli, G Pandarese, GM Revel… - Measurement, 2016 - Elsevier
The integrity of the wheel is very important for the safety of railway. In this paper a laser-
ultrasonic diagnostic measurement procedure has been designed for the inspection of the …

A review of key planning and scheduling in the rail industry in Europe and UK

C Turner, A Tiwari, A Starr… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Planning and scheduling activities within the rail industry have benefited from developments
in computer-based simulation and modelling techniques over the last 25 years. Increasingly …

Condition-based monitoring of the rail wheel using logical analysis of data and ant colony optimization

H Osman, S Yacout - Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose In this paper, a data mining approach is proposed for monitoring the conditions
leading to a rail wheel high impact load. The proposed approach incorporates logical …

Joint prediction of remaining useful life and failure type of train wheelsets: Multitask learning approach

W Wang, Q He, Y Cui, Z Li - Journal of Transportation Engineering …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Train wheel failures account for disruptions of train operations and even a large portion of
train derailments. Remaining useful life (RUL) of a wheelset measures how soon the next …

Supervised machine learning from digital twin data for railway switch fault diagnosis

C Jung, AKA Toguyeni… - 2023 European Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study concerns the development of fault diagnosis methods for railway switches based
on supervised machine learning. The lack of data led us to build a digital twin that allows us …