VIA News
22March

CFL Training 2024
 
 

In February and March 2024, the institute for transport science conducts further training courses on "Planning", "Operation" and "Railway safety and signalling technology" for CFL employees.

VIA News
21March

Field Trip at Whitsun 2024
 

The destination of this year's excursion
(21.05. - 24.05.2024) organized by the RWTH transport chairs will be Berlin. The program includes the BVG and the Autobahn GmbH as well as visits to the maintenance facilities for ICEs in Rummelsburg and the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport.

VIA News
21March

Market Dialogue 2024 of the Bundesnetzagentur
 

On 14 March, the Bundesnetzagentur hosted the Market Dialogue 2024 at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn. Under the headline "Setting the course for the digitalisation of the rail sector?", experts from practice and academia discussed the impact and potential of digitalisation on capacity management, operations and dispatching. Prof. Nießen gave a talk on the topic of "Opportunities in the digitalisation of rail operations".

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.