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 summer semester 2026, 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 27.02.2026. Subsequently, the topics will be assigned.
Depending on demand, it cannot be guaranteed that a topic can be assigned.
| Number | Issue | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innovations in Construction and Maintenance of Railway Lines |  |
| 2 | Qualitative Review of Yield Management Methods in railway transport | |
| 3 | Teleoperation and automated operation in tram systems | |
| 4 | Entwicklung eines makroskopischen Modells zur Analyse von Kapazität und Verspätungen in Eisenbahnnetzen | |
| 5 | Analysis of the impact of Platform Barriers on the introduction of autonomous driving in railway applications | |
| 6 | Entwicklung einer Methode zur koordinierten Umleitungsplanung für voneinander abhängige Baumaßnahmen | |
| 7 | Entwicklung einer Methode zur koordinierten Umleitungsplanung für voneinander abhängige Baumaßnahmen | |
| 8 | Entwicklung einer Python-basierten Methode zur Überführung von OpenStreetMap-Eisenbahndaten in das RailML-Format zur Nutzung in Leistungsfähigkeitsuntersuchungen | |
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