Abstract:The ballastless track system, widely used on high-speed railway bridges in western China, has high longitudinal stiffness. Meanwhile, earthquake areas are widespread, and it is inevitable for trains to travel on bridges during earthquakes. This study focuses on train operational safety of ballast less track on bridges along high-speed railway under earthquakes. Using the CRTS II slab ballastless track on 32-meter irregular simply supported beam bridge commonly found in western China as a typi cal engineering example, an integrated vehicle-track-bridge computational model was established us ing the WORKBENCH and SIMPACK platforms. The study analyzed the variations in derailment coefficient, wheel load reduction rate, and wheelset lateral forces at different train speeds during earth quakes, and proposed safety thresholds for train operation. The results showed that as train speed and seismic intensity increased, the derailment coefficient, wheel load reduction rate, and wheelset lateral forces all increased. When the constraint effects of the track were considered, it could reduce the derail ment coefficient, wheel load reduction rate, and wheelset lateral force of the train by an average of 7.19%, 9.96%, and 7.97%, respectively, with the maximum difference being about 15%. Additional ly, the constraint effects of the track system could significantly enhance the safety thresholds for train operation. When the train ran at 350 km/h and 300 km/h, the maximum tolerable peak ground accelera tions of the train increased by 22.04% and 36%, respectively. When the peak ground accelerations were 0.2g and 0.3g, the safe train speeds increased by 7.24% and 8.14%, respectively. It could be seen that the impact of train speed was more significant, indicating that the train should slow down when an earthquake occurred. The constraint of the ballastless track system can effectively improve the train op erational safety on bridges, and the constraint effects should be considered in design calculations.