On November 22-23, 2023 the 4th International Railway Symposium Aachen will be held at Aachen.
We look forward to seeing you.
You will find further information here.

As part of the lecture series "Ausgewählte Aspekte des Schienenbahnwesens", an excursion to the Duisburg operations center of DB Netz AG took place on September 13. The students were first introduced to an operations center's tasks in an exciting guided tour. Afterwards, the dispatcher's conflict resolution measures could be discussed in the situation center using current examples and their available tools could be presented.

Many thanks to the employees of the Duisburg operations center for the interesting insights and to Dr. Andreas Kaldenbach for organizing the excursion.

Within the project, fundamental scientific preliminary work was carried out on behalf of DB Netz AG for an update of the track standards in guideline family 413 "Designing infrastructure" and a recommendation for the design of minimum elements of the operational infrastructure was developed. Furthermore, standard elements of node design were investigated and planning recommendations were derived for this.

Mr. Albrecht Morast passed his doctoral examination on August 24th, 2023. The title of his dissertation is: "Driverless railway operations on secondary lines - Potentials of different operational concepts". The Institute of Transport Science congratulates quite cordially!

This year, for the first time, the VIA was able to win the traditional soccer tournament of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and brought the cup to the institute. Our team "Lokomotive VIA" showed a great performance and was well supported by the colleagues.

At the end of the course "Operation and Management of Rail Freight Systems", we visited the Cologne-Eifeltor combined transport terminal last week together with the students. During an exciting guided tour of the site, we were able to experience the processes on site live and observe the loading operations at first hand. Many thanks to the employees of the Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße (DUSS) mbH for the fascinating insights behind the scenes of the combined transport terminal!

On behalf of state-owned Centre of Competence for Climate, Environment and Noise Protection in Aviation (CENA Hessen), VIA has developed alternative departure profiles to those specified in the Berechnungsmethode für den Umgebungslärm von Flugplätzen (BUF) dataset. A Noise Abatement Departure Procedure (NADP) 2 and a NADP 1 procedure with thrust cutback and acceleration altitude at 1500ft, as well as the influence of speed restrictions along the route on the departure profiles, were assessed. The developed profiles will be used for the analysis of their impact on the noise contours at Frankfurt Airport.

Mr. Peter Laumen passed his doctoral examination on June 30th, 2023. The title of his dissertation is: "ETCS Level 1 in the Context of Digital Interlocking Technology". The Institute of Transport Science congratulates quite cordially!