“…As indicated above, the contributions span diverse geographical regions, encompassing specific country cases such as China, Spain, Poland, Ireland, France, Portugal, Netherlands, and Germany. The topics covered include AI (1,3,4,6), track monitoring approaches (1 and 4), wayside wheel defect detection (6), freight wagon digitalization (5), digital twins (7), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) (9), and tunnels (10). Contributions 4, 6, and 9 entail numerical studies, while contributions 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 involve experimental field tests.…”