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Five PAIR railway technology projects supported by MTR Research Funding Scheme

6 Oct 2023

Funding & Donations

PolyU received a total funding of HK$7.25 million in the 2023 MTR Research Funding Scheme for six research projects that aim at developing cutting-edge technologies for the future advancement of railways. Among them, five projects are led by PAIR researchers:

In alphabetical order of last name:

Principal Investigator

PAIR Research Unit

Project Title

Prof. CHUNG Chi-yung

Photonics Research Institute (PRI)

 

Developing an Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting System to Energise Monitoring Systems in the Hong Kong MTR System

Dr HUANG Xinyan

Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD)

Intelligent Emergency Digital Twin System in Metro Station for Fire Evacuation

Dr LAI Siu-kai

 

Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD)

 

Development of a New Inerter-based Rail Damper to Mitigate Railway-induced Ground-borne Noise by a Physics-informed Deep Learning Framework

Dr REN Jingzheng

Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM) and Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality (RCRE)

Promoting Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) in MTR for Pursuing Sustainable Development Goals and Better Service Quality

Dr YE Hongbo

Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI)

Planning and Operation of Future Railway System with Autonomous Modularised Trains and Virtual Coupling Signalling

 

Read more: https://polyu.me/45mTfNr

 

Online coverage (Chinese only):

Oriental Daily News - https://polyu.me/46jFost

HK01 - https://polyu.me/46pRZdU


Research Units Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing | Photonics Research Institute | Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute | Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development | Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality

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