A review of alignment optimization research for roads, railways and rail transit lines

T Song, P Schonfeld, H Pu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Roads, railways and rail transit lines play major roles in transporting passengers and freight.
In the design process for such transportation infrastructures, the alignment determination …

A deep reinforcement learning approach to mountain railway alignment optimization

T Gao, Z Li, Y Gao, P Schonfeld, X Feng… - … ‐Aided Civil and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The design and planning of railway alignments is the dominant task in railway construction.
However, it is difficult to achieve self‐learning and learning from human experience with …

Pixel‐level thin crack detection on road surface using convolutional neural network for severely imbalanced data

T Siriborvornratanakul - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Because roads are the major backbone of the transportation network, research about crack
detection on road surfaces has been popular in computer and infrastructure engineering …

Exploring and exploiting ant colony optimization algorithm for vertical highway alignment development

MB Sushma, S Roy, A Maji - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The vertical alignment optimization is about develo** a minimum cost curvilinear vertical
profile of constrained grade sections and appropriate non‐overlap** vertical curves …

Sustainable urban road planning under the digital twin-MCDM-GIS framework considering multidisciplinary factors

F Jiang, J Li, L Ma, Z Dong, W Chen, T Broyd… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sustainable urban road planning necessitates the formulation of functional, economic,
people-friendly, eco-friendly, and engineering-reasonable road schemes within the confines …

GIS-based multi-criteria railway design with spatial environmental considerations

T Song, H Pu, P Schonfeld, H Zhang, W Li, X Peng… - Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Railway design is complex and closely linked to environmental concerns. To solve this
problem, a two-stage method considering three categories of environmental factors …

Systematic framework for sustainable urban road alignment planning

F Jiang, L Ma, T Broyd, J Li, J Jia, H Luo - Transportation Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable urban road alignment planning should provide functional, economical, people-
friendly, and eco-friendly schemes to meet traffic-related demands and promote social …

Minimizing costs and carbon emissions in railway alignment optimization: A bi-objective model

H Pu, L Cai, T Song, P Schonfeld, J Hu - Transportation Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
Railway alignment optimization should consider multiple environmental factors. Especially
considering the changing climate, low-carbon design is crucial in alignment development …

Mountain railway alignment optimization integrating layouts of large‐scale auxiliary construction projects

T Song, H Pu, P Schonfeld, Z Liang… - … ‐Aided Civil and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain railway alignment design is an important but complex civil engineering problem.
To overcome the drastically undulating terrain, long tunnels and high bridges are major …

Mountain railway alignment optimization based on landform recognition and presetting of dominating structures

X Wan, H Pu, P Schonfeld, T Song, W Li… - … ‐Aided Civil and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain railway alignment optimization has always been a challenge for designers and
researchers in this field. It is extremely difficult for existing methods that optimize alignments …