The high-speed railway is a major technical achievement made by the railway sector in the contemporary world. It embodies a country’s technological progress made in the railway traction power, line structure, operation control, transportation organization and operation management, thus reflecting its scientific, technological and industrial levels. The high-speed railway system is composed of subsystems such as a passenger service system, a traction power supply system, a dispatching system, a communication signal control system, an EMU system and an infrastructure system, with each playing its different important role in the operation of high-speed railways. To realize high-speed, high-safety and high-smoothness train operations, a large number of technical innovations have been applied to high-speed railways. This means a qualitative change in the construction standard, technical equipment, operation and environment and equipment maintenance compared with conventional railways. High-speed railway construction is a type of huge systematic engineering because a high-speed railway is constructed in the form of system integration and the design objective must be achieved when it is open to traffic. To comprehensively check the functions of each subsystem, the interface matching relationship, the overall operation performance, safety and environment-friendliness of a high-speed railway, integration test and commissioning need to be performed to confirm the construction goal. Routine high-speed railway maintenance should be put into practice under localized management based on the principle that “management, inspection and maintenance” should be separated from one another under the idea of “professional enhancement, central management and resource integration” and “high efficiency”, with the goal of establishing a high-effective, low-cost, low-manned, modern, information-based, advanced and suitable comprehensive maintenance management and technology system. For the EMU, owing to the unity of the traction power and transport agent, a transfer transportation scheme can be adopted to realize a non-stop operation of unit trains. Unlike conventional railways, the high-speed EMU is equipped with a new conditioning and maintenance system. In other words, the operation, conditioning and maintenance of the high-speed EMU are carried out synchronously as a whole. The integration of the operation, conditioning and maintenance of the high-speed EMU makes its operation and management shifted from decentralization, peculiar to conventional railways, to centralization, with its utilization maximized. The high-speed railway operation and dispatching system is no longer used for traditional train surveillance or control only, but has become an intelligent and centralized one. Moreover, it will cover the fields closely related to high-speed railway operation, such as transportation planning, transportation management, operation control, operation maintenance and optimum distribution of transport capacity. It is developing from surveillance-based dispatching to control-management integration. The high-speed railway passenger service system is a comprehensive and complete passenger service system of high information sharing, high-efficient resource utilization and safe, reliable operation established in accordance with the unified service standard, unified management strategy, unified management mechanism and unified technical architecture based on the modern high-speed railway management thought, service idea and up-to-date information technology. It offers safe, comfortable, convenient and efficient services to passengers.

To fully display the new image of the Chinese high speed railway featured by high safety and reliability, orderly operation, quality service and top-level management, Chinese railway professionals have accumulated a wealth of successful experience in the integration test and commissioning, transportation management, permanent equipment maintenance, EMU overhauling and operation, train dispatching and passenger services of high-speed railways, forming a complete set of high-speed railway operation management techniques. For the first time, this course presents these techniques to learners, hoping to provide complete technical data for high-speed railway operation staff members, professionals and the railway employees eager to learn the professional knowledge of the high-speed railway so as to create conditions for training of a high-quality and highly skilled high-speed railway staff team.

This course can be studied by novices, including civil engineers who want to learn high-speed railway engineering knowledge and non-professionals who want to learn the knowledge of the high-speed railway.

Learning the following knowledge in advance helps to understand and grasp the knowledge in this course: 1) MOOCs in High-speed Railway Engineering, taught by Yi Sirong et al.; 2) Introduction to Railway; 3) Introduction to High-speed Railway; 4) Railway Engineering, etc.

[1] Yi Sirong. Railway Engineering. 2012

 [2] Wang Ping. Theory and Practice of High-speed Railway Turnout Design. Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 2011

 [3] Liu Xueyi. Vehicle-Track-Subgrade System Dynamics. Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 2010

 [4] Liu Xueyi. Design Theory and Method of Ballastless Tracks for Passenger Railways. Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 2010

 [5] Wang Qichang. Ballastless Rail Fasteners. Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 2006

 [6] Gao Liang. Research and Application of Key Technologies for Seamless High-speed Railway Lines. China Railway Publishing House, 2012

 [7] Wang Ping. Design Theory of Seamless Turnout on Bridge. Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 2010

 [8] Self-designed Handout: High-speed Railway Operation and Maintenance