This paper presents a review of sensors and inspection devices employed to inspect railway
defects and track geometry irregularities. Inspection of rail defects is an important task in …

Smart maintenance is essential to achieving a safe and reliable railway, but traditional
maintenance deployment is costly and heavily human-involved. Ineffective job execution or …

Railways have already introduced satellite-based localization systems for non-safety related
applications. Driven by economic reasons, the use of these systems for new services and, in …

Positioning accurately and safely a train is nowadays a great challenge. That includes
currently available railway sensors and new candidate sensors for data fusion. Global …

This paper presents a framework to express the role of people in establishing and
maintaining system safety. The Human Functions in Safety (HFiS) framework has been …

One approach to reduce energy consumption in railway systems is to implement optimised
train trajectories. These are speed profiles that reduce energy consumption without …

Rail transit system represented by high-speed railway supplies power to locomotive electric
equipment by connecting pantograph and catenary. The off-line phenomenon often occurs …

Nowadays the railway industry is beginning to give serious consideration to using intelligent
traffic management systems (TMSs) in order to improve railway performance regarding train …

Creating a more resilient railway network is crucial to national socioeconomic performance.
GB's railways are considered to be a resilient transport network when compared with other …

This paper describes on-going research developing a system to harvest and utilise open
and crowdsourced data related to the UK railway systems. This system will allow the …