6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (379+ words) Ground fissures pose a serious threat to the deformation stability and operational safety of high-speed railway embankments. In this study, a three-dimensional transient finite element model was developed to investigate the dynamic response of a double-track high-speed railway embankment crossing…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (541+ words) Background: Integrating human factors into quantitative railway risk assessment remains methodologically unresolved. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) records human contributions as a single occurrence rating and cannot represent their organisational antecedents or their interactions. Purpose: This paper is a…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (366+ words) Global studies indicate that urban public transport systems are facing critical challenges concerning capacity, speed, punctuality, comfort, and network integration, particularly on main transit axes and in central urban areas. At the same time, previous international research in transport planning…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (469+ words) Short-term passenger-flow forecasting at integrated transport hubs requires accurate forecasts with explicit target semantics. This study evaluates long short-term memory (LSTM) and temporal convolutional network (TCN) fusion models using two distinct 5 min targets at Shenzhen North Station: a 2023–2026 regional population-mobility…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (543+ words) Railway turnouts are subject to disproportionately high maintenance costs, partly driven by ballast void formation under asymmetrically loaded sleepers. Existing turnout models rely on detailed three-dimensional finite element track representations and do not readily support iterative long-term settlement analyses across…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (509+ words) This study experimentally investigated the long-term deformation behavior of a ballasted railway turnout affected by adjacent deep excavation through an integrated multi-sensor field-monitoring approach. The monitored facility consisted of two 60 kg, #10 single turnouts located approximately 13 m from an excavation with…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (319+ words) Aggregate origin–destination data and summary load factors do not identify train-specific flows; imposing each load factor as an exact margin can therefore overstate precision. We develop an auditable high-speed rail pricing framework combining pooled passenger-kilometer entropy completion, an occupancy-aware…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (577+ words) Increasing train speeds and axle loads result in greater demands on the reliability of predictions for vertical bridge accelerations in high-speed rail traffic. Complex multibody models, e.g., in the form of coupling beam models, allow for the explicit consideration of track…...