The 5th Symposium "Eisenbahnrecht und Technik" will take place on June 23 and 24, 2025 at the University of Aachen. Once again, topics at the interface between railroad law and technology will be highlighted. Information can be found here (in german)

A multi-part documentary series, "Bahnsinn Riedbahn: A German Construction Site", on the general renovation of the Riedbahn began in the summer. It accompanies the major construction site with thousands of participants, the 150 replacement buses, the rush on the diversions, the residents and commuters. In the first episode, our institute director, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Nießen, is also there to talk about the challenges and opportunities of modernization. You can find the video on Youtube.

Mrs Alexandra Liebhold passed her doctoral examination on November 11th, 2024. The title of her dissertation is: "Evaluation of Dispatching Algorithms in a Railway Lab Under Realistic Conditions".
The Institute of Transport Science congratulates quite cordially!

Within the lecture "Practice Transport Economics" we would like to give students a deeper insight into the practice based on the basic knowledge of transport economics. Lecturers from different areas of transport economics (municipalities, transport authorities, transport associations, federal authorities, infrastructure operators, transport companies and consultants) will give lectures on this topic. You can find further information (in German) here.

On November 08, the RWTH Science Night "5 to 12" will take place. The Railway Signalling Lab (ELVA) will be open between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Additional, guided tours will also be offered. More information can be found here.

Trade visitors were able to visit the booth of the Research Center Railways (RCR) of RWTH Aachen University at this year's InnoTrans in Berlin from September 24 to 27. The VIA as well as the participating institutes informed about current research projects and cooperations. We would like to thank all visitors for the interesting discussions.

The Institute of Transport Science invites you to join the Pentecost-Excursion 2025 to Tokyo! From June 7 to 15, 2025, you'll have the unique opportunity to travel to Japan's vibrant capital with 14 other students from Faculty 3 and explore the fascinating culture and technology of one of the most innovative countries in the world!
Applications for the excursion must be submitted by October 20, 2024, via email to exkursion@via.rwth-aachen.de. The required documents include a motivation letter (max. 1 page) and a current transcript of grades for the Bachelor's program, and Master's if applicable. Participants will earn 3 CP for attending the excursion and writing a paper. The cost contribution is approximately 1,500€ per person.
Further information will be provided at our info session on October 16, 2024, at 3:00 PM in Room 105.2 of the Civil Engineering Building.

Dominik Nikolayzik, Maren Maus, and Nils Nießen have published the peer-reviewed paper "Investigation of Railway Network Capacity by Means of Dynamic Flows" in the Special Issue Application of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Railway: 2nd Edition of Applied Sciences by MDPI. The paper can be viewed and downloaded in full as Open Access here.