VIA News
19Sep

IRSA 2023
 
 
 
 
 

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.

VIA News
19Sep

Excursion to the operations center in Duisburg
 
 
 

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.

VIA News
19Sep

Project completion "Further development of the regulations for the design of operational infrastructure"

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.

VIA News
04Sep

Doctoral examination Albrecht Morast
 
 
 
 

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!

VIA News
10July

VIA winner of the Bau-WM 2023
 
 
 
 

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.

VIA News
10July

Excursion
 
 
 
 
 

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!

VIA News
07July

Development of alter­native departure pro­files as a sup­ple­ment to the flight profiles defined in the original BUF dataset

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.

VIA News
04July

Doctoral examination Peter Laumen
 
 
 
 

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!