The Institute of Transport Science offers a range of possible topics for master theses for the specialization Railway Systems Engineering (RSE) each semester.
If you are studying RSE and if you are interested in writing a master thesis at our chair in the winter semester 2025/26, please contact thesis@via.rwth-aachen.de
and indicate a maximum of three preferred topics (with priority 1 to 3). Please also enclose an up-to-date transcript of records and a status report on the internship (completed,
ongoing until, planned from, not planned) to the e-mail. The application deadline is 29.08.2025. Subsequently, the topics will be assigned.
Depending on demand, it cannot be guaranteed that a topic can be assigned.
| Number | Issue | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Development of capacity-preserving strategies to mitigate extreme weather-related disruptions in railway operations |  |
| 2 | Design of a prototypical infrastructure for comparing ETCS and CBTC | |
| 3 | The impact of different nesting structures on travel mode choice | |
| 4 | Optimizing passenger transfer times on platforms | |
| 5 | Analysis of countermeasures to overcrowding in railway stations | |
| 6 | Evaluation of rerouting concepts in railway networks | |
| 7 | Energy-efficient train operation | |
| 8 | Discrete-event simulation and analysis of train operations on small railway networks using python | |
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