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Railway Engineering Science (RES) |
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Railway Engineering Science (RES) is an international, peer-reviewed, and free open-access journal which is edited by Academician Zhai Wanming, the Chief Editor, together with 33 internationally renowned scholars in the field of rail transit, focusing on basic engineering science and emerging technologies of rail transit and covering the frontier technologies of rail transit in areas like high speed railways, heavy haul railways, urban rail transit, maglev systems, and vacuum pipeline transportation. The main goal of the journal is to maintain high quality of publications, serving as a medium for railway academia and industry to exchange new ideas and share the latest achievements in scientific research, technical innovation and industrial development in railway science and engineering. The topics include but are not limited to l Design theory and construction technology l System dynamics and safety l Electrification, signaling and communication l Operation and maintenance l System health monitoring and reliability l Environmental impact and sustainability l Cutting-edge technologies The publication costs for Railway Engineering Science are fully covered by Southwest Jiaotong University so authors do not need to pay any article-processing charges. At present, RES has been included in well-known databases such as ESCI and Scopus and uploaded to the Web of Science. In the near future, the editorial board of RES will continue to pay close attention to excellent original researches and assist the University's "Double First-Class" pursuit, striving for the development of the rail transit discipline and the exertion of its international influence. Editors Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Wanming Zhai Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences Associate Editors: Prof. David J. Thompson University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Prof. Sebastian Stichel Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Prof. Maksym Spiryagin Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia Dr. Georges Kouroussis Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium Editorial Board Members: Prof. Mehdi Ahmadian Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA Dr. Pablo Arboleya University of Oviedo, Gijon- Asturias, Spain Prof. Xuecheng Bian Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Prof. Stefano Bruni Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Dr. Hua Chen Railway Technical Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan Dr. David P. Connolly The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Prof. Geert Degrande KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Prof. António Gomes Correia University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Prof. Zhengyou He Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Dr. Wei Huang National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada Prof. Buddhima Indraratna University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia Prof. Simon Iwnicki University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Prof. Raid Karoumi Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Prof. Zili Li Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Dr. Enrico Meli University of Florence, Florence, Italy Prof. Jens Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Prof. Oldrich Polach Independent Railway Consultant, Neuhausen am Rhf., Switzerland Prof. Pol D Spanos Rice University, Houston, USA Prof. Billie F. Spencer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA Dr. Mykola Sysyn Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany Prof. Hans True Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Prof. Erol Tutumluer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA Prof. Zefeng Wen Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Dr. Qing Wu Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia Prof. Nan Zhang Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Prof. Shunhua Zhou Tongji University, Shanghai, China Prof. Zhihui Zhu Central South University, Changsha, China Managing Editor: Prof. Chunsheng Guo Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Scientific Editors: Junsi Lan Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Yao Zhou Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Letter from the editor-in-chief
I am delighted to announce the launch of Railway Engineering Science, an international, peer-reviewed and free open-access journal which is renamed from Journal of Modern Transportation but focused on a narrower scope, publishing original research articles and comprehensive reviews related to fundamental engineering science and emerging technologies in various rail transit systems. Rail transit is traditional while still fascinatingly new. It came into being around two centuries ago, while glowing with a new look in recent decades and still exciting in future. For example, China has built the world’s largest high-speed railway (HSR) network of over 35,000 km, more than two-thirds of the world’s total HSR mileage, by the end of 2019. More new lines are also planned and under construction. I am excited about the progress made by China that HSR network connects more than 550 cities and serves billions of people each year. The world HSR network is still growing at a fast pace. Predictably, more and more issues will emerge and then be solved by interdisciplinary cooperation. My chief motivation of launching this journal was and will always be to provide the worldwide railway community with the most effective and powerful medium to publish high-quality open-access research articles, to promote academic exchanges in railway engineering science and boost the scientific and technological development. We hope Railway Engineering Science will become the primary platform for researchers to share new findings in all aspects of rail transit. We hope it provides an important forum to address critical issues in the field, exchange new ideas and disseminate the latest developments in scientific research, industrial development and regulatory issues focusing on railway engineering and science. We hope it plays a valuable role in accumulating scientific data and promoting science-based industrial development for various advanced rail transit systems, such as high-speed railway, heavy-haul railway, urban rail transit, maglev system and hyperloop transportation. Here I would like to express my thanks to our contributors and our editorial board members for their great support to the journal. I would also like to thank the sponsorship of Southwest Jiaotong University, fully covering the open-access fee, so that authors need not to pay any fees for their publications and articles are free for everyone worldwide to read and download. Finally, I cordially welcome all readers and researchers to submit your high-quality papers and contribute your work to this journal. I am also keen to hear your constructive ideas and suggestions for helping the growth of this new born but promising scientific journal.
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International Journal of Rail Transportation (IJRT) |
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The unprecedented modernization and expansion of rail transportation system will require substantial new efforts in scientific research for field-deployable technologies. The International Journal of Rail Transportation (IJRT) aims to provide an open forum for scientists, researchers, and engineers in the world to promote the exchange of the latest scientific and technological innovations in rail transportation; and to advance the state-of-the-art engineering and practices for various types of rail based transportation systems. IJRT covers all main areas of rail vehicle, infrastructure, traction power, operation, communication, and environment. The journal publishes original, significant articles on topics in dynamics and mechanics of rail vehicle, track, and bridge system; planning and design, construction, operation, inspection, and maintenance of rail infrastructure; train operation, control, scheduling and management; rail electrification; signalling and communication; and environmental impacts such as vibration and noise. The editorial policy of the new journal will abide by the highest level of standards in research rigor, ethics, and academic freedom. All published articles in IJRT have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent experts. There are no page charges and colour figures are included in the online edition free of charge. Editorial board Editors-in-Chief Wanming Zhai Southwest Jiaotong University, China Kelvin C. P. Wang Oklahoma State University, USA Associate Editors Mats Berg Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Christopher P. L. Barkan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Consulting Editors Hans True Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Zhiyun Shen Southwest Jiaotong University, China Donald R. Uzarski University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Guotang Zhao China Railway Corporation, China Editorial Board Stefano Bruni Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hua Chen Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan David B. Clarke The University of Tennessee, USA Colin Cole Central Queensland University, Australia David P. Connolly Heriot-Watt University, UK Guido De Roeck Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Robert Fröhling Transnet Freight Rail, South Africa Jose M. Goicolea Technical University of Madrid, Spain Stuart L. Grassie Rail Measurement Ltd, UK Jin Guo Southwest Jiaotong University, China Buddhima Indraratna University of Wollongong, Australia Georges Kouroussis Université de Mons, Belgium Xiaoyan Lei East China Jiaotong University, China Zili Li Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Bernhard Lichtberger Plasser & Theurer, Austria Jens C. O. Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Clive Roberts University of Birmingham, UK Anton Stribersky Siemens AG Österreich, Austria Yoshihiro Suda The University of Tokyo, Japan David J. Thompson University of Southampton, UK Norio Tomii Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Erol Tutumluer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jordi Viñolas Universdad Nebrija , Spain Huimin Wu Transportation Technology Center, INC., AAR, USA He Xia Beijing Jiaotong University, China Shunhua Zhou Tongji University, China |