Portal Page for Cross-disciplinary Railway Research at Sophia University

🇬🇧 It is just a pilot page at this moment.

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Core members

Faculty

Division of Mechanical Engineering

TERUMICHI Yoshiaki, Professor, trustee, former president

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TAKEHARA Shoichro, Professor, department chair

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Nagvendra Kanoje, Postdoctoral Researcher

Division of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

MIYATAKE Masafumi, Professor, dean

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KONG Deshi, Assistant Professor by Special Appointment

Division of Civil Engineering

No division at Sophia University

Some other divisions such as informatics, etc.

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Students

Division of Mechanical Engineering

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Division of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

ANADNGAM Thunyawara

LYU Mingyu

GENG Haoran

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Collaborative members

Your cooperation is welcome.

Events

13th International Conference on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems (CM2025) was successfully held at Sophia University on 22-26 September 2025. Prof. Takehara was the general chair of the organizing committee.

Photo at CM 2025 website: https://cm2025.jscmr.org/img/image.png

International Activity reports from April 2024

Prof. DAS Anandarup at IIT Delhi joined Prof. Miyatake's lab as a visiting associate professor in June 2025 for 1 month. https://scrapbox.io/files/6875a4890c16963a4a8d57ab.jpeg

Prof. Terumichi stayed at University of Northampton for 3 weeks as his sabbartical leave. (2025-05~06)

Dr. Reiko Abe, who has been involved in railway construction projects in India, gave an in-person lecture at Sophia University. (Talk in Japanese, slides in English) (2025-04-21)

News release by Oriental Consultants Global Co., Ltd. (in Japanese)

IITD-Sophia Joint Symposium on SDGs-oriented Urban Transformation in India was held at IIT Delhi. Prof. Miyatake presented a take entitled "Transportation Design for Urban Sustainability and Resilience." (2025-03-20)

FST EAS invited Prof. Thomas Sauter-Servaes at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) to Sophia University. He gave a lecture entitled "Education and Research on Mobility Science at ZHAW." (2024-12-06) https://scrapbox.io/files/675ad0de32c134b79fb1e8ea.jpeg

The IEC/TC9 62427 ED2 Prof. Miyatake was involved in revising as a convenor was published. The title of this standard is “Railway applications - Compatibility between rolling stock and train detection systems.” (2024-12-04)

Prof. Miyatake presented a talk entitled "Research Trends on Energy-efficient Operation Technologies for Electric Railways in Japan" at the 1st Japan-China Symposium on Railway Technology by NU-CRR in Tokyo, Japan. (2024-08-08)

Prof. Miyatake coordinated "The Second IITD-Sophia Workshop on Transportation Science and Technology - Part B Sustainable Urban Transportation" held at Sophia University on July 3rd as a part of events for India Week. (2024-07-03)https://scrapbox.io/files/66b8ba177f6caf001cd0c592.jpeg

Prof. Takehara coordinated "The Second IITD-Sophia Workshop on Transportation Science and Technology - Part A Mechanical Engineering - Health care, Industry -" held at Sophia University on July 2nd as a part of events for India Week. (2024-07-02)

The defense of Mr. Deshi Kong's dissertation was open to the public. The title was "Application of Energy Storage Systems to Rail Transit for Energy and Cost Efficiency Based on Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm." (2024-06-27)https://scrapbox.io/files/6744913f038b1b29d5458f39.jpeg

Prof. Takehara presented at "India-Japan: Science & Technology Pathways for Sustainable Future seminar" by Indian Embassy in Japan. (2024-05-14)

Professors Terumichi, Takehara and Miyatake visited IIT Delhi and made presentations in the Sophia-IITD Workshop on Transportation Science and Technology. (2024-04-04) https://scrapbox.io/files/66c5e3cf3e149d001c155cc2.jpeg

Research areas

Now preparing...

Funded projects

Ongoing projects

JSPS KAKENHI

Power Management of Train Traffic to Improve Energy Efficiency and Suppress Peak Power and Negative Sequence Current in 2023-2026.

Others

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Future projects

JSPS

KAKENHI

Bilateral Collaborations

JST

LOTUS Programme for Indian young researchers

SATREPS, Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development by JST and JICA

SICORP, Strategic International Collaborative Research Program

Others...

Previous projects

KAKENHI

Development of a Methodology for Compounded Solutions to Poverty, Education and Environmental Issues by Means of Establishment of Railway Networks in 2017-2021.

Achievements

Papers on railways in English at Sophia University. (under testing)

Upcoming information

2026

Mass-Trans Innovation Japan Osaka 2026 (MITJ-Osaka 2025) will be held on 27-29 May 2026 in Osaka, Japan.

RAILWAYS / STECH 2026 will be held on 23-26 August 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.

InnoTrans 2026 will be held at Messe Berlin on 22-25 September 2026.

IEEE VPPC 2026 will be held in Lyon, France on 05-09 October 2026.

IEEE ESARS-ITEC 2026 will be held in Toulouse, France on 27-30 October 2026.

IEEE ICIRT 2026 will be held in Changsha, China on 28-29 November 2026.

2027

Sophia University will launch the new department, Department of Digital Green Technology (DGTech), in April 2027.

Curriculum has been unveiled.

Article by Nikkei Asia titled "Sophia University Establishes New Department of Digital Green Technology Nurturing Next-Generation Leaders for the Global Stage."

InnoTrans Asia will be held in September 2027 in Singapore.

Past information

2026

2025

Joint Symposium on Railway Technology (J-RAIL 2025) will be held on 17-19 December 2025 in Osaka, Japan.

Mass-Trans Innovation Japan 2025 (MITJ2025) on 26-29 November 2025 in Chiba, Japan.

The 5th International Railway Symposium Aachen (IRSA2025) will be held on 19-20 November 2025 in Aachen, Germany.

The 2nd Japan-China Symposium on Railway Technology will be held on 16-19 October 2025 in Chengdu, China.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT2025) will be held in Beijing on 11-12 October 2025.

1st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation for Future Mobility (ICITFM'25) will be held in Vadodara, India, from 29 September till 1 October 2025.

The 11th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailDresden2025) will be held on 1-4 April 2025 in Dresden.

2024

Joint Symposium on Railway Technology (J-RAIL 2024) was held on 27-29 November 2024 in Tokyo.

Prof. Terumichi and Prof. Takehara are members of the steering committee.

The chancellor, president, vice-president and Prof. Miyatake were interviewed for a sponsored article by Nikkei Asia entitled “Building a Deeper Relationship with India: Sophia University's Global Strategy.”

InnoTrans 2024 on 24-27 September 2024 at Messe Berlin.

Railways 2024 / STECH 2024 was held on 1-5 September 2024 in Prague.

Links

Japan

Academic societies

JSME Transportation and Logistics Division (TRANSLOG)

IEEJ Technical Committee on Transportation and Electric Railway (TER)

Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)

The Japanese Society for Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems (JSCMR)

Research institutes and universities on railways

Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI)

Railway International Standards Center (RISC)