The current mobility situation is constantly changing as people are increasingly moving to
urban areas. Therefore, a flexible mode of transport with high-capacity passenger trains and …

This paper provides a systematic review of emerging control techniques used for railway
virtual coupling (VC) studies. Train motion models are first reviewed, including model …

Joint operation optimization for virtual coupling of heavy-haul trains is hardly performed by
locomotive engineers due to the increasing “harmonic” effects among train groups and …

In this study, a method is proposed to analyse the capacity improvement ability of using
virtual coupling technology to the sharing-corridor metro lines for solving the problem of …

This paper presents a virtual coupling (VC) train convoy composition optimization framework
to create a multiple formation structure maximizing the capacity benefit while considering …

The Virtual coupling is proposed as a blocking mode to address the increasing demand for
railway transport capacity, which takes operation efficiency further improve by separating …

Virtual coupling is proposed as an innovative solution to meet the growing transport demand
and to further improve the service quality of railways. Nevertheless, obtaining the optimal …

Virtual coupling is gaining in popularity as a promising development direction to maximize
the rail‐line efficiency by minimizing the headway distance among trains in the presence of …

Virtual coupling allows multiple trains to run synchronously in a virtually coupled formation
via train-to-train (T2T) wireless communication. The distance between virtual coupling trains …

The virtually coupled train sets (VCTS) have been proposed to improve operational
capability and passenger satisfaction and ensure punctuality, thus alleviating the rapidly …