1 October 2004 is the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen, the world’s first high-speed railway that marked the start of the era of high-speed rail travel. Ten years ago, the October issue of JRTR 3 published a special feature entitled 30 Years of High Speed Railways. This article summarizes the events in highspeed railways in the last 10 years and discusses their future p...

In the proposed system setup, a communication link is established between base station (BS) and end-user (UE) via relay node mounted on high-speed train (HST). The information conveyed over backhaul RF links BS VLC UE inside train. It assumed that are encountered with dual shadowing due to slow-moving vehicles pedestrians. Moreover, not able estimate channel perfectly HST mobility. Firstly, sta...