The Draft Strategy of Freight Trains in China

Abstract

This paper proposes a draft strategy of driverless freight trains in China for the future development from the prospective of railway company. The first step is to indicates that the current situation of freight trains at home and aboard. Then use quantitative analysis to predict the possible freight volume in ten years by using the data collected from the national bureau statistics, and briefly introduce the goal of the rail development in fifteen years. Further propose the vision of the driverless freight trains strategy in China and state the key stakeholders which have interests with the railway company. The following steps are taken to achieve the vision by divided the goal into three stages, short-term plan, mid-term plan and long-term plan, followed by the evolution, advantages, disadvantages, improvements and further study. In conclusion, summarizes the strategy of the driverless freight trains in China, and puts forward the suggestion that other intelligent operations can be applied for the freight loading and uploading, to achieve the whole process of freight transport fully-automatic. And also such technology can be used in other modes of transportation.