Abstract：Research purposes: WulanHot-XilinHot Railway is a new corridor between east part and middle part of Inner Mongolia in the "Eleven Five-year" Railway Network Program, so the railway route should be selected rationally according to the distributions of the political economic base and coal resources along the line, for the purpose of providing the reference to similar construction.
Research methods: Through making analyses of the distributions of the coal resources, landform and city plan along the line, the railway route is selected sector-by-sector and the comprehensive technical and economic comparisons are made for the advantages with disadvantages of different routes with methods of statistics; simulation and evaluation.
Research results: The route selection of WulanHot-XilinHot Railway is made sector-by-sector, which can realize the target of building the new corridor between east part and middle part of Inner Mongolia to open the new channel of coal exporting and optimize the distribution of railway.
Research conclusions: The choice of railway route should be made according to the all factors of engineering, technology, economy, environment, politics, society etc, for perfect consideration of transportation capacity, construction investment, operation expenditure and to social influence etc to obtain good benefits of society, enterprise and environment
2007, Vol. 24 
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