Preliminary Study on Selling Tickets in Reason for Last Trains on Beijing Rail Transit Network

With the increase of Beijing urban rail transport network, the structure of the road network is becoming more complex, and passengers have more travel options. Together with the complex paths and different timetables, taking the last train is becoming much more difficult and unsuccessful. To avoid losses, we propose feasible suggestions to the last train with reasonable selling tickets system.

Research on Active Safety Methodologies for Intelligent Railway Systems

Safety is essential when building a strong transportation system.As a key development direction in the global railway system,the intelligent railway has safety at its core,making safety a top priority while pursuing the goals of efficiency,convenience,economy,and environmental friendliness.This paper describes the state of the art and proposes a system architecture for intelligent railway systems.It also focuses on the development of railway safety technology at home and abroad,and proposes the active safety method and technology system based on advanced theoretical methods such as the in-depth integration of cyber–physical systems(CPS),data-driven models,and intelligent computing.Finally,several typical applications are demonstrated to verify the advancement and feasibility of active safety technology in intelligent railway systems.

Optimal edge-cloud collaboration based strategies for minimizing valid latency of railway environment monitoring system

Response speed is vital for the railway environment monitoring system,especially for the sudden-onset disasters.The edge-cloud collaboration scheme is proved efficient to reduce the latency.However,the data characteristics and communication demand of the tasks in the railway environment monitoring system are all different and changeable,and the latency contribution of each task to the system is discrepant.Hence,two valid latency minimization strategies based on the edge-cloud collaboration scheme is developed in this paper.First,the processing resources are allocated to the tasks based on the priorities,and the tasks are processed parallly with the allocated resources to minimize the system valid latency.Furthermore,considering the differences in the data volume of the tasks,which will induce the waste of the resources for the tasks finished in advance.Thus,the tasks with similar priorities are graded into the same group,and the serial and parallel processing strategies are performed intra-group and inter-group simultaneously.Compared with the other four strategies in four railway monitoring scenarios,the proposed strategies proved latency efficiency to the high-priority tasks,and the system valid latency is reduced synchronously.The performance of the railway environment monitoring system in security and efficiency will be promoted greatly with the proposed scheme and strategies.

Flexible Power Regulation and Limitation of Voltage Source Inverters under Unbalanced Grid Faults

This paper develops a flexible power regulation and limitation strategy of voltage source inverters(VSIs)under unbalanced grid faults.When the classical power theory is used under unbalanced grid faults,the power oscillations and current distortions are inevitable.In the proposed strategy,the extended power theory is introduced to compute the power feedbacks together with the classical power theory.Based on the combination of the classical and extended power theory,the proposed strategy can achieve the sinusoidal current provision and the flexible regulation between three common targets,i.e.,constant active power,balanced current,and constant reactive power.Meanwhile,the proposed strategy is associated with a power limiter,which is capable to keep the currents under the pre-defined threshold and to compute the maximum apparent power for better utilization of the inverter capacity.With this power limiter,the rated inverter capacity is fully used for both the active and reactive power provisions under unbalanced grid faults.Using the proposed power regulation and limitation,the VSI can avoid overcurrent tripping and flexibly regulate its power under unbalanced grid faults.All the conclusions are verified by the real-time hardware-in-loop tests.

Fault Isolation of Light Rail Vehicle Suspension System Based on D-S Evidence Theory and Improvement Application Case

This paper presents an innovative approach for the fault isolation of Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) suspension system based on the Dempster-Shafer (D-S) evidence theory and its improvement application case. The considered LRV has three rolling stocks and each one equips three sensors for monitoring the suspension system. A Kalman filter is applied to generate the residuals for fault diagnosis. For the purpose of fault isolation, a fault feature database is built in advance. The Eros and the norm distance between the fault feature of the new occurred fault and the one in the feature database are applied to measure the similarity of the feature which is the basis for the basic belief assignment to the fault, respectively. After the basic belief assignments are obtained, they are fused by using the D-S evidence theory. The fusion of the basic belief assignments increases the isolation accuracy significantly. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by two case studies.

SOMS: A Subway Operation and Maintenance System Based on Planned Maintenance Model with Train State

This paper aims to propose a modeling framework for subway operation and maintenance system (SOMS), which analyzes the train condition data based on both train sensor network data and basis train maintenance plan. The system is formulated into five function modules, and the research problem is to determine one auxiliary maintains plan, including the time allocation and frequency of maintenance. The case of Guangzhou metro is conducted to illustrate the applicability of SOMS, and the results reveal a number of interesting insights into subway maintenance system, i.e., the worksheet can reduce duplication of redundant maintenance work, the repair cost, and the damage caused by frequent disassembly.

Annotated survey and perspectives on rail transport energy system RAMS evaluation technology

The rail transit system plays a crucial role in modern transportation.With the increasing demand for clean and green energy in the transport sector,its energy system is expected to achieve low-carbon and highly efficient energy utilization in rail transit.However,the gradual development of the rail transport energy system has led to an increase in its complexity,and the rising difficulty of system assessment has faced the limitations of traditional assessment methods.Hence,it is essential to develop effective assessment methods.This paper begins by providing a systematic review of the development status of Reliability,Availability,Maintainability and Safety(RAMS)assessment and analyzing the shortcomings of traditional RAMS assessment technology in the context of rail transit energy systems.Subsequently,based on the four fundamental properties of RAMS,it summarizes the current state of key assessment technologies in the field of rail transit.Moreover,the paper delves into the challenges and potential solutions concerning the implementation of RAMS assessment technology for rail transit energy systems.Finally,the paper offers an outlook on the future development of RAMS assessment for rail transport energy systems.By comprehensively analyzing these aspects,the paper aims to contribute valuable insights into optimizing the rail transit energy system,promoting its sustainable and efficient operation in the context of clean and green energy utilization.

A Perspective on Solar Energy-powered Road and Rail Transportation in China

As essential pillars of passenger mobility and freight transport,road and rail transportation have experienced a rapid increase over the past years.This trend indicates an increase in energy consumption,especially electricity,due to higher energy efficiency and less carbon emission,but it exacerbates the contradiction between the power supply and demand.Nowadays,for additional power sources,increased solar power generation has been widely installed in their own available spaces for road and rail transportation,which has attracted a great deal of attention.This paper reviews the current status of solar power generation and its integrated application in the transport sector.Then,the photovoltaic generation potential of road and rail transportation in China are evaluated.Finally,further developments and perspectives of solar energy-powered road and rail transportation are presented,which not only contributes to lower-carbon and green transportation,but also promotes the development of renewable power generation for energy transformation.It is confirmed that solar energy-powered road and rail transportation is a promising approach for sustainable transportation with more renewable energy and less carbon emission.

Overview of Resilient Traction Power Supply Systems in Railways with Interconnected Microgrid

In recent years,the achievement of a renewable and sustainable traction power supply system(TPSS)in the rail sector has become a significant challenge.Focusing on this issue,this paper firstly provides a comprehensive overview and classification of the state-of-art TPSSs in DC and AC railway.Then,together with low voltage(LV)DC,medium voltage(MV)DC,LV AC,and hybrid AC/DC interconnected microgrid(IMGs),various architectures of resilient TPSSs are proposed for renewable energy integration into DC and AC railway.The resilient TPSS offers on-site access and local consumption of renewable sources alongside railways and guarantees a sustainable power supply in the case of grid disturbances and failures,e.g.,voltage unbalance,harmonic and violent fluctuation,power outage,and extreme events in the wake of natural disasters and extreme weather.This approach also helps facilitate the development of the next generation TPSSs for enhanced flexibility and sustainability.Then,based on a comparative analysis of different resilient TPSSs,a brief outlook of the future trend is given.Finally,it is concluded that resilient TPSS provides a universal solution for both renewable energy integration and high-quality power supply against grid disturbances and failures.

Modified constriction particle swarm optimization algorithm

To deal with the demerits of constriction particle swarm optimization(CPSO), such as relapsing into local optima, slow convergence velocity, a modified CPSO algorithm is proposed by improving the velocity update formula of CPSO. The random velocity operator from local optima to global optima is added into the velocity update formula of CPSO to accelerate the convergence speed of the particles to the global optima and reduce the likelihood of being trapped into local optima. Finally the convergence of the algorithm is verified by calculation examples.

GGC:Gray-Granger Causality Method for Sensor Correlation Network Structure Mining on High-Speed Train

Vehicle information on high-speed trains can not only determine whether the various parts of the train are working normally,but also predict the train’s future operating status.How to obtain valuable information from massive vehicle data is a difficult point.First,we divide the vehicle data of a high-speed train into 13 subsystem datasets,according to the functions of the collection components.Then,according to the gray theory and the Granger causality test,we propose the Gray-Granger Causality(GGC)model,which can construct a vehicle information network on the basis of the correlation between the collection components.By using the complex network theory to mine vehicle information and its subsystem networks,we find that the vehicle information network and its subsystem networks have the characteristics of a scale-free network.In addition,the vehicle information network is weak against attacks,but the subsystem network is closely connected and strong against attacks.

CPS architecture design for urban roadway intersections based on MBSE

With the rapid growth of urbanization and the increasing demand for transportation, urban traffic congestion has become a hindrance to individuals’ travel experience. Urban intersections are one of the primary sources of traffic congestion, and these bottlenecks have a negative impact not only on traffic efficacy but also on the surrounding road traffic in the region. To alleviate urban traffic congestion, cyber-physical systems have been widely implemented in the transportation industry, allowing for the perception, analysis, calculation, and dispatching of urban traffic flow, as well as making urban transportation safe, efficient, and quick. As the system scale and functions increase, system design has become increasingly complex, necessitating a deeper comprehension of the system’s structure and interaction relationships to construct a stable and reliable system. Therefore, this study proposes a method for designing cyber-physical systems for urban traffic intersections based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). This method models and analyses exhaustively the system’s requirements, functions, and logical architecture using System Modeling Language (SysML). After the architecture design has been completed, an architecture verification and optimization method based on Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) for urban road intersection cyber-physical systems is utilized to analyze the architecture’s reliability by analyzing the failure modes of activities and to optimize the system architecture to improve the design’s efficiency and reliability.