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Efficient crowd evacuation from railway platforms is critical for passenger safety during emergencies. This study introduces a novel dynamic emergency evacuation route generator using the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm within a custom-built 3D simulation environment developed in Unity. We independently created a detailed digital twin of Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal, Thailand’s largest train station, and implemented all elements of the simulation, including the Social Force Model, to accurately replicate crowd behaviors and interactions during evacuation scenarios. Through extensive training over 3,000,000 episodes, our PPO-based model achieved significant improvements in evacuation efficiency. The results indicate that in a major emergency scenario, increasing the number of agents in the station reduced the number of remaining passengers from 111 to just 6, highlighting the model’s effectiveness. Similarly, in a minor emergency scenario, the average number of remaining passengers dropped from 38 to 1 with the addition of more agents. These findings confirm the model’s ability to adapt to different emergency conditions, offering a practical and scalable solution for enhancing evacuation strategies in high-density environments. Furthermore, increasing the agents’ sight range also improved evacuation efficiency, with a 20-meter sight range yielding the best results.

Futuristic transportation systems would be requiring more effective sensing system that are not only cost effective but also more efficient in sensing multiple targets while acquiring minimal area and utilizing low input power. To achieve that, frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) based Photonic Radar is proposed. For multiple targets detection, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scheme is used in conjugation with polarization division multiplexing (PDM) scheme. Impact of varying bandwidth is analyzed upon the performance of the proposed system using numerical simulations. The system is simulated for detecting and ranging over 100 meters by analyzing received echoes and verifying the range frequency with theoretically calculated values while effective operation is measured in terms of received power under varying level of attenuation up to 75 dB/Km under rain and fog conditions. Lastly, the system is replicated for range resolution with four varying operational bandwidths from 600 MHz to 4 GHz.

Today, most manufacturing control systems are complex and expensive, so they are limited to employ a small number of function evaluations for optimal design. Yet, looking for optimization methods with the less-computational cost is an open issue in engineering control systems. This paper aims to propose an effective adaptive optimization approach by integrating Kriging surrogate and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). In this method, a novel iterative adaptive approach is utilized using two sets of training samples including initial training and adaptive sample points. The initial training points are designed by space-filling design, while the adaptive points are generated using a new jackknife resampling approach. The proposed approach can effectively convergence towards the global optimal point using a small number of function evaluations. The efficiency and applicability of the proposed algorithm are evaluated using the optimal design of the fractional-order PID (FOPID) controller for some benchmark transfer functions. Then, the introduced approach is applied for tuning the parameters and the sensitivity analysis of the FOPID controller for a dynamic production-inventory control system. The results are in good agreement with the results reported in the literature, while the proposed approach is executed with a lower computational burden.