VIA News
06March

"Selected Aspects of Railways" in the summer term 2024
 

This summer term, Dr. Andreas Kaldenbach will again give his lecture "Ausgewählte Aspekte des Schienenbahnwesens". This course will be held in the German language.
Furthermore, we are delighted to announce that Dr. Pengling Wang will give an additional lecture "Selected Aspects of Railways" for our English-speaking students. This lecture will cover the topic of energy-efficient railway operations.
Please find further information in the documents linked for the German and English courses.

VIA News
28Feb

DZSF-project "Digitalisation in capacity management of the overall rail system"

On February 6,2024 the inaugural session of the Research Accompanying Task Torce for the DZSF-project "Digitalisation in capacity management of the overall rail system" took place at the premises of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport in Berlin. Together with our project partners the quattron management consulting GmbH, the institute for the didactics of law of the university of Passau and the neXt Capacity GmbH, we shared current insights into the project's progress and development. Subsequently, a comprehensive discussion with invited experts provided us with valuable perspectives for shaping the project's future trajectory.

VIA News
22Feb

Proceedings of IRSA 2023 published
 
 

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of IRSA 2023 are now available online.

VIA News
22Feb

Oche Alaaf!

Once again this year, the #VIAteam celebrated its fifth season together.

VIA News
31Jan

Excursion "Airport Management I"
 

On Monday, 22.01.2024, our Chair excursion for the course "Airport Management I" took place. We met at Cologne/Bonn Airport in the afternoon and first drove to the DFS control tower. We were warmly welcomed on site and given an introduction to the history of DFS at the airport, as well as the special aspects of air traffic control at the three runway airport. We then continued our excursion with a airport airside tour. We were able to observe cargo and passenger handling from up close. A special highlight was the tour of the A300 Zero-G aircraft, which was formerly used for parabolic flights.

VIA News
09Jan

Project launch for expanding the UWZ approaches

Following the successful completion of the development of the cause-effect relationship ("UWZ") between the use of funds and the quality of the station infrastructure, DB InfraGO AG Geschäftsbereich Personenbahnhöfe commissioned the Institute of Transport Sciences to extend the UWZ approaches to other asset classes. The aim is to forecast the condition of the other asset classes depending on the available budget for maintenance and replacement.

VIA News
20Dec

Project start "Framework conditions, processes and planning tools for capacity-optimised building and maintenance activities in the existing rail network"

On behalf of the German Center for Rail Traffic Research (DZSF), the VIA, in cooperation with quattron management consulting GmbH, the Institute for Construction Management, Digital Construction and Robotics in Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, the University of Passau with the Chair of Public Law and albert.ing GmbH, will investigate processes and strategies for effective planning and implementation of construction measures with minimal restriction of network capacity. The project is planned to start in January 2024. Further information can be found here.

VIA News
19Dec

PUBLICATION IN TRANSPORT RESEARCH PROCEDIA

Tamme Emunds, Christopher Wink, Martin Lempp, Karim Monem, Björn Dickenbrok, and Nils Nießen of the Institute of Transport Science (VIA) and DB Netz AG have published the peer-reviewed paper "Predicting interlocking malfunctions for the railway network in Germany" in Transport Research Procedia (Volume 72) by Elsevier. The paper can be viewed and downloaded in full as open access here.