Rail Transportation

Rail Transportation is a guided land transportation mode in which wheeled or magnetically levitated vehicles (rolling stock) move along fixed guideways—typically parallel steel rails—to transport passengers and/or freight within an integrated railway infrastructure and operations system.

8.6K

Publications

342.5K

Citations

15.7K

Authors

2.7K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

3.3K

Variants

Railway TransportRailway Transportation

Parents

TransportationTransportation Engineering

Children

Freight Rail TransportHigh-speed RailRail AccessibilityRail Accident AnalysisRail Asset ManagementRail Corridor PlanningRail ElectrificationRail InfrastructureRail Lifecycle CostingRail Noise

Publications

8.6K

Fundamentals of vehicle–track coupled dynamics

Wanming Zhai, Kaiyun Wang, Chengbiao Cai · Vehicle System Dynamics · 2009 · 937 citations

Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +17

Review of maglev train technologies

Hyung-Woo Lee, Ki‐Chan Kim, Ju Lee · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics · 2006 · 923 citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +14

A Survey of Optimization Models for Train Routing and Scheduling

Jean‐François Cordeau, Paolo Toth, Daniele Vigo · Transportation Science · 1998 · 778 citations

Public Health, Industrial Engineering, Transportation Planning +17

The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century

Andrew Pickering, Wolfgang Schivelbusch · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1996 · 672 citations

Social Sciences, History, Human Geography +14

Modelling of Railway Track and Vehicle/Track Interaction at High Frequencies

Kl. Knothe, Stuart L. Grassie · Vehicle System Dynamics · 1993 · 671 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics +17

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Authors

15.7K

WZ
Wanming Zhai
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
74 publications · 6.1K citations
41
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DT
David Thompson
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
68 publications · 3.8K citations
41
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JC
Jens C. O. Nielsen
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
53 publications · 3.9K citations
37
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XJ
Xuesong Jin
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
61 publications · 3.4K citations
36
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ZW
Zefeng Wen
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
51 publications · 2.3K citations
31
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Institutions

2.7K

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Venues

Vehicle System Dynamics
437 publications · 21.6K citations
68
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Journal of Sound and Vibration
JSV · 167 publications · 11.5K citations
67
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Wear
237 publications · 13.8K citations
65
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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
348 publications · 13.3K citations
57
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Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
130 publications · 10.6K citations
57
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