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High-speed Railway as Landscape Bonanza: TU-Delft Alternative Lelyline: A case study from Zwolle to Groningen

Bai, Fazhong (author)

Long-term, large-scale empirical studies on the simultaneous development of transport infrastructure and the built environment are scarce. This thesis provides a future high-speed railway infrastructure implementation alternative based on the Dutch cultural landscape from Zwolle to Groningen. Our design goal is to better connect Amsterdam and...

master thesis 2023

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Transit-Oriented Development in China: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Spatial Plans of High-Speed Railway Station Areas

Wang, B. (author), de Jong, Martin (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Meng, Yanchun (author)

With rapid high-speed railway (HSR) developments in China, HSR-based transit-oriented development (TOD) has proliferated across the country. Although local governments claim that HSR station areas are planned according to TOD principles, some scholars argue that these station areas actually contribute to unsustainable development. This study...

journal article 2023

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Surrogate modelling of railway pantograph-catenary interaction using deep Long-Short-Term-Memory neural networks

Song, Yang (author), Wang, H. (author), Frøseth, Gunnstein (author), Nåvik, Petter (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Rønnquist, Anders (author)

The interaction performance of the pantograph-catenary is of great importance as it directly determines the current collection quality and operational safety of trains. The finite element method (FEM) is dominantly used for simulating pantograph-catenary interaction, which is normally computationally heavy. In this work, addressing the...

journal article 2023

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Integrating High-speed Railway Stations and Urban Areas in China: Actors, Processes and Institutions

Wang, B. (author)

There is an increasing need for understanding the impacts of institutions on the integrated planning of transport and land use. High-speed railway (HSR) station areas, as nodes in transport networks and mixed-use areas, have become a focus in planning. The fast development of HSR station areas in China causes many problems, such as remote...

doctoral thesis 2022

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Ground vibration induced by high speed trains on an embankment with pile-board foundation: Modelling and validation with in situ tests

Wang, L. (author), Wang, Ping (author), Wei, Kai (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Li, Z. (author)

To investigate the train-induced ground vibration, an explicit time-domain, three dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model is developed. The train, track, embankment, pile-board structure and nearby ground soils are all fully coupled in this model. The complex geometries involving the track components and pile-board structure are all...

journal article 2022

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Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for High-Speed Train Trajectory Optimization

Ning, Lingbin (author), Zhou, Min (author), Hou, Zhuopu (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author), Wang, Fei Yue (author), Dong, Hairong (author)

This paper proposes a novel train trajectory optimization approach for high-speed railways. We restrict our attention to single train operation scenarios with different scheduled/rescheduled running times aiming at generating optimal train recommended trajectories in real time, which can ensure punctuality and energy efficiency of train...

journal article 2022

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Carriage interior noise-based inspection for rail corrugation on high-speed railway track

Wei, Zilong (author), Sun, Xianfu (author), Yang, Fei (author), Ke, Zaitian (author), Lu, Tao (author), Zhang, P. (author), Shen, C. (author)

The presence of rail corrugation enlarges the wheel-rail impact and exacerbates the failure of track components, and the situation becomes even worse under high train speed, which promotes the urgent need for an efficient and easily accessible inspection method. Conventional diagnosis approaches such as axle box acceleration (ABA) and image...

journal article 2022

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Rules for the Governance of Transport and Land use Integration in High-speed Railway Station Areas in China: The Case of Lanzhou

Wang, B. (author), Ersoy, A. (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author), de Jong, Martin (author)

The rapid high-speed railway development in China has faced many institutional challenges for the integrated development of transport and land use in station areas. This paper aims to gain insight into the institutional rules that structure the actors’ interactions and how they influence the integrated development in station areas. The...

journal article 2022

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Design of Multi-Mode Linear Electric Machine for Charging and Propulsion of Vacuum Tube Train

Dong, J. (author), Becetti, Belkassem (author), Bauer, P. (author)

This paper investigates a high speed vacuum tube train system relying on wheels for suspension and a multi-mode linear electric machine for charging and propulsion: the machine will be configured as a doubly fed induction machine for charging at stationary, and as a permanent magnet synchronous machine for acceleration and deceleration. The...

conference paper 2022

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Hierarchical Model Predictive Control for on-Line High-Speed Railway Delay Management and Train Control in a Dynamic Operations Environment

Wang, Yihui (author), Zhu, Songwei (author), Li, Shukai (author), Yang, Lixing (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)

In practice, the operation of high-speed trains is often affected by adverse weather conditions or equipment failures, which result in delays and even cancellations of train services. In this article, a novel two-layer hierarchical model predictive control (MPC) model is proposed for on-line high-speed railway delay management and train...

journal article 2022

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Unified deep learning architecture for the detection of all catenary support components

Liu, W. (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Han, Z. (author)

With the rapid development of deep learning technologies, researchers have begun to utilize convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection methods to detect multiple catenary support components (CSCs). The literature has focused on the detection of specified large-scale CSCs. Additionally, CNN architectures have faced difficulties in...

journal article 2020

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A Bayesian Network Approach for Condition Monitoring of High-Speed Railway Catenaries

Wang, H. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Zhang, Dongliang (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author)

The growing variety of data from condition monitoring of high-speed railways offer unprecedented opportunities to improve railway infrastructure maintenance. For condition monitoring of railway catenaries, this paper proposes a data-driven approach that uses a Bayesian network (BN) to integrate the inspection data from catenaries into a key...

journal article 2020

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Analysis on mechanical characteristics of welded joint with a new reinforced device in high-speed railway

Xiao, Hong (author), Yan, Dongwei (author), Liu, Guangpeng (author), Wang, Haoyu (author)

High-speed railways adopt continuous welded rail to maintain the smoothness and continuity of the rail surface. However, the welded joint became one of the weakest parts. In order to clear the characteristics and mechanical properties of the new reinforced device, a dynamic three-dimensional vehicle-reinforced device-track coupling model is...

journal article 2020

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Adversarial Reconstruction Based on Tighter Oriented Localization for Catenary Insulator Defect Detection in High-Speed Railways

Wang, H. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author)

The catenary insulator maintains electrical insulation between catenary and ground. Its defects may happen due to the long-term impact from vehicle and environment. At present, the research of defect detection for catenary insulator faces several challenges. 1) Localization accuracy is low, which causes the localized object to be incomplete or...

journal article 2020

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Entropy-Based Local Irregularity Detection for High-Speed Railway Catenaries With Frequent Inspections

Wang, H. (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author)

The condition-based maintenance of high-speed railway catenary is an important task to ensure the continuous availability of train power supply. To improve the condition monitoring of catenary, this paper presents a novel scheme to detect catenary local irregularities using pantograph head acceleration measurements. First, a series of...

journal article 2019

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Optimization models for high-speed train unit routing problems

Wang, Ying (author), Gao, Yuan (author), Yu, Xiaoyuan (author), Hansen, I.A. (author), Miao, Jianrui (author)

Train unit routing problem determines the number of train units needed to carry out involved trips, which is a significant part of railway operation cost. In this paper, we focus on high-speed train unit routing problems, in which maintenance resource constraints both on time and distance are taken into account. Based on a connection network,...

journal article 2019

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Lateral resistance of polyurethane-reinforced ballast with the application of new bonding schemes: Laboratory tests and discrete element simulations

Jing, Guoqing (author), Zhang, Xu (author), Jia, W. (author)

To mitigate the ballast flight risk in the high-speed railway, this paper presents three new polyurethane bonding schemes which have negligible influence to tamping operations. With the application of these bonding schemes, a series of laboratory tests indicated that the polyurethane-reinforced ballast exhibited much larger lateral resistance...

journal article 2019

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Automatic Defect Detection of Fasteners on the Catenary Support Device Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Chen, Junwen (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Wang, H. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Han, Zhiwei (author)

The excitation and vibration triggered by the long-term operation of railway vehicles inevitably result in defective states of catenary support devices. With the massive construction of high-speed electrified railways, automatic defect detection of diverse and plentiful fasteners on the catenary support device is of great significance for...

journal article 2018

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Structural Health and Stability Assessment of High-Speed Railways via Thermal Dilation Mapping With Time-Series InSAR Analysis

Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author), Zhang, L (author), Yang, M. (author)

Thermal dilation is a vital component of deformation along the extensive railway network infrastructure. To monitor subtle deformation, the synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) technique has been adopted as a space-borne geodetic tool. However, InSAR applications in railway stability surveillance have been largely limited by the...

journal article 2017

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Ensemble EMD-based automatic extraction of the catenary structure wavelength from the pantograph-catenary contact corce

Liu, Zhigang (author), Wang, H. (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Yang, S. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Zhang, J. (author)

This paper explores the use of pantograph-catenary contact force (PCCF) for monitoring of the current collection quality and detection of anomalies in the interaction between pantograph and catenary. The concept of catenary structure wavelength (CSW) is proposed as the dominant component of PCCF. It describes the signal components caused by the...

journal article 2016