Research and development of automatic train operation for railway transportation systems: A survey

J Yin, T Tang, L Yang, J Xun, Y Huang, Z Gao - … Research Part C: Emerging …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of communication, control and computer technologies in the last
several decades, automatic train operation (ATO), for which the driver no longer has to …

A review of modelling and optimisation methods applied to railways energy consumption

PM Fernández, IV Sanchís, V Yepes… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Railways are a rather efficient transport mean, and yet there is increasing interest in
reducing their energy consumption and making them more sustainable in the current context …

Joint optimization of high-speed train timetables and speed profiles: A unified modeling approach using space-time-speed grid networks

L Zhou, LC Tong, J Chen, J Tang, X Zhou - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper considers a high-speed rail corridor that requires high fidelity scheduling of train
speed for a large number of trains with both tight power supply and temporal capacity …

Multi-train trajectory optimization for energy efficiency and delay recovery on single-track railway lines

P Wang, RMP Goverde - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel multi-train trajectory optimization for single-track lines. We
restrict our attention to delay cases aiming at finding optimal speed profiles, which reduce …

Decentralized cooperative control of multiple energy storage systems in urban railway based on multiagent deep reinforcement learning

F Zhu, Z Yang, F Lin, Y Xin - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, the stationary energy storage systems (ESSs) are widely introduced to recover
the regenerative braking energy in urban rail systems. And the multiple ESSs along the line …

Robust energy management of high-speed railway co-phase traction substation with uncertain PV generation and traction load

Y Liu, M Chen, Z Cheng, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Co-phase traction power supply system provides the insights for solving the existing power
quality and electrical sectioning issues in high-speed railways, and the flexible control of co …

A multiphase optimal control method for multi-train control and scheduling on railway lines

H Ye, R Liu - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2016 - Elsevier
We consider a combined train control and scheduling problem involving multiple trains in a
railway line with a predetermined departure/arrival sequence of the trains at stations and …

Reinforcement learning method for the multi-objective speed trajectory optimization of a freight train

X Lin, Z Liang, L Shen, F Zhao, X Liu, P Sun… - Control Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rising urge to mitigate the green house effect, reducing the energy consumption of
the freight train attracts much attention. Multiple constraints should be taken into account to …

Modelling and performance analysis of advanced combined co‐phase traction power supply system in electrified railway

M Chen, Q Li, C Roberts, S Hillmansen… - IET Generation …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An advanced combined co‐phase traction power supply system is proposed by combining a
single‐phase traction transformer and an active power flow controller (PFC) in an electrified …

Energy-efficient train trajectory optimization based on improved differential evolution algorithm and multi-particle model

D He, L Zhang, S Guo, Y Chen, S Shan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban rail transit is an efficient public transport, and reducing their energy consumption is
beneficial to climate change and sustainable development. Current researches in metro …