Publications

2023

Nießen, Nils, Weik, Norman: Infrastrukturmodellierung, in: Nießen, Nils; Oetting, Andreas, et al. (eds.): Planungs- und Betriebsmanagement für das System Bahn, BFV Bahn Fachverlag, 1st edition (2023)

Geischberger, Jakob; Isberner, Alessa; Weik, Norman: Optimizing rollout strategies for migration to moving block signaling – a MINLP-based approach for on-board train integrity monitoring technology. Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 2023

Mönsters, Michael; Geischberger, Jakob; Ritzer, Philip; Weik, Norman; Meirich, Christian; Skorsetz, Sebastian; Kache, Martin; Kebdani, Zaki: Potenziale einer Multikuppelbarkeit im Schienenpersonennahverkehr. EI - Der Eisenbahningenieur, 74 (6), pp. 34-38 (2023), https://elib.dlr.de/187921/

Geischberger, Jakob; Isberner, Alessa; Weik, Norman: Optimizing rollout strategies for migration to moving block signaling – a MINLP-based approach for on-board train integrity monitoring technology, in Proceedings 10^th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailBelgrade2023), Belgrade, 25.-28.04.2023 (2023)

2022

Flamm, Leander; Mönsters, Michael; Weik, Norman: Increasing Capacity and Reducing Travel Times in High-speed Train Operations through Virtual Coupling", in J. Pombo, (Editor), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 1, Paper 13.3 (2022), DOI: 10.4203/ccc.1.13.3

Geischberger, Jakob, Weik, Norman: Combining operative train simulation with logistics simulation in SUMO”, in Proceedings SUMO User Conference 2022, pp. 145-157 (2022), DOI: https://doi.org/10.52825/scp.v3i.112

Weik, Norman: Macroscopic traffic flow in railway systems - A discussion of the applicability of fundamental diagrams Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 23, 100330 (2022), DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2022.100330

Narezo Guzman, Daniela; Heusel, Judith; Weik, Norman; Reetz, Susanne; Buursma, Douwe; van den Berg, Arnout; Schrijver, Gerrit; Neumann, Thorsten; van den Broek, Serge; Groos, Jörn Christoffer: Towards the automation of anomaly detection and integrated fault identification for railway switches in a real operational environment, in Proceedings World Congress on Railway Research Birmingham, UK, 06.-10.06.2022 (2022)

Narezo Guzman, D., Heusel, J., Weik, N. und Buursma, D.: Entwicklung und Validierung von Anomaliedetektionsverfahren für Weichen, EI - Der Eisenbahningenieur 08/2022, pp. 18-22 (2022)

Morast, A., Nießen, N., Weik, N., Meirich, C., Jäger, B.: Leistungsfähigkeit hochautomatisierter schienenbasierter ÖPNV-Systeme, Deine Bahn 06/2022, pp. 22-26 (2022)

Ritzer, P., Mönsters, M., Flamm, L., Weik, N.: Demand Responsive Transport im Schienenverkehr - Eine Analyse des Systemdesigns, ETR - Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, 71 (6), pp. 35-39 (2022)

Weik, Norman; Volk, Matthias; Katoen, Joost-Pieter; Nießen, Nils: DFT Modeling Approach for Operational Risk Assessment of Railway Infrastructure”, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 24 (3), FMICS 2019/2020 Special Issue, pp. 331-350 (2022), DOI: 10.1007/s10009-022-00652-4

2021

Weik, N., Ehrenfried, K.: “Gekoppelte aerodynamische und fahrdynamische Simulation zur Optimierung von Tunnelfahrten”, in: Proceedings 3rd International Railway Symposium Aachen (IRSA), Aachen, 21.-23.11.2021 (2021), DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2022-01705

Weik, Norman: Macroscopic Traffic Flow in Railway Systems - A Discussion of the Applicability of Fundamental Diagrams, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modeling and Analysis (RailBeijing 2021), Beijing, China, 03.-07.11.2021 (2021)

Johansson, Ingrid; Weik, Norman: Strategic assessment of railway station capacity - Further development of a UIC 406-based approach considering timetable uncertainty, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modeling and Analysis (RailBeijing 2021), Beijing, China, 03.-07.11.2021 (2021)

Weik, Norman: Modellierung von Störungen in der Eisenbahnbetriebswissenschaft – Stand der Technik und aktuelle Entwicklungen“, Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (ETR) 70 (11), pp. 16-20 (2021).

2020

Weik, Norman: Integrierte Modellierung von Leistungsfähigkeit und Infrastrukturverfügbarkeit, Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (ETR) 69 (12), pp.28-31 (2020).

Weik, N., Hemminki, E., Nießen, N.: “The Effective Residual Capacity in Railway Networks with Predefined Train Services”, in: Neufeld, J.S., Buscher, U., Lasch, R., Möst, D., Schönberger, J. (eds): “Operations Research Proceedings 2019”, pp.725-731, Springer (2020), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_88

Weik, N., Nießen, N.: “Quantifying the effects of running time variability on the capacity of rail corridors”, Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management 15, 100203 (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2020.100203

Weik, N., Warg, J., Johansson, I., Bohlin, M., Nießen, N.: “Extending UIC 406-based capacity analysis – New approaches for railway nodes and network effects”, Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management 15, 100199 (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2020.100199

Weik, Norman: Long-Term Capacity Planning of Railway Infrastructure – A Stochastic Approach Capturing Infrastructure Unavailability, PhD Thesis, RWTH Aachen University (2020), DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2020-06771

2019

Schmidt, M., Weik, N., Zieger, S., Schmeink, A., Nießen, N.: “A generalized stochastic Petri Net model for performance analysis of track-side infrastructure of railway station areas”, in: Proc. 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Auckland, New Zealand, 27.-30.10.2019, pp. 2732-3737 (2019), DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2019.8917459

Volk, M., Weik, N., Katoen, J.P., Nießen, N.: “A DFT Modeling Approach for Infrastructure Reliability Analysis of Railway Station Areas”, in: Proc. International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 30.-31.08.2019, LNCS vol. 11687, pp. 40-58 (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27008-7_3

Weik, N., Nießen, N.: „Quantifying the effects of variability on the capacity of rail corridors”, accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Railway Operations Modeling and Analysis (RailNorrköping 2019), Norrköping, Sweden, 17.-20.06.2019 (2019).

Weik, N., Warg, J., Johansson, I., Nießen, N., Bohlin, M.: „Extending UIC 406-based capacity analysis – New approaches for railway nodes and network effects”, accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Railway Operations Modeling and Analysis (RailNorrköping 2019), Norrköping, Sweden, 17.-20.06.2019 (2019).

2018

Weik, N., Nießen, N.: „Performability Analysis of Railway Systems", in Proc. of the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT), 12.-14.12.2018, Singapore (2018), DOI: 10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641589

Zieger, S., Weik, N., Nießen, N.: „The influence of buffer time distributions in delay propagation modelling of railway networks”, Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management 8 (3-4), pp. 220-232 (2018), DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2018.09.001

Zieger, S., Weik, N., Nießen, N.: „The impact of buffer time distributions on the nominal capacity of railway lines”, in: Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Railway Engineering, Design and Operation (COMPRAIL2018), Lisbon, Portugal, 02.-04.07.2018 (2018), DOI: 10.2495/CR180281

Weik, N.; Zieger, S.; Nießen, N.: “Traffic management heuristics for bidirectional segments on double-track railway lines”, in: Kliewer, N.; Ehmke, J.; Borndörfer, R. (eds.) “Operations Research Proceedings 2017", pp. 729-735, Springer (2018), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89920-6_97

Zieger, S.; Weik, N.; Nießen, N.: „Der Einfluss von Pufferzeitverteilungen im Fahrplan auf die analytische Bestimmung der Folgeverspätungen im Eisenbahnwesen“ (in German), in: Proceedings 26. Verkehrswissenschaftliche Tage, Dresden (2018)

2017

Zieger, S.; Weik, N.; Nießen, N.: „The influence of buffer time distributions on delay propagation in railway networks”, in: Proceedings 1st International Railway Symposium Aachen (IRSA), Session 2.1 (2017), DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2018-222704.

Weik, N.; Nießen, N.: „A quasi-birth-and-death process approach for integrated capacity and reliability modeling of railway systems", Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 7 (3), pp. 114-126 (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2017.06.001.

Weik, N.; Nießen, N.: „A quasi-birth-and-death process approach for integrated capacity and reliability modeling of railway systems with fallible infrastructure components", in: Proceedings 7^th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailLille2017), pp. 1591-1611 (2017).

Schmitz, C.; Weik, N.; Zieger, S; Nießen, N.; Schmeink, A.: „Markov Models for the Performance Analysis of Railway Networks", in: Proceedings 7^th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailLille2017), pp. 1568-1590 (2017).

2016

Weik, N.; Niebel, N.; Nießen, N.: „Capacity analysis of railway lines in Germany – A rigorous discussion of the queueing based approach", Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 6 (2), pp. 99-115 (2016), DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2016.06.001.

Weik, N.; Schindler, J.; Bera, S.; Solomon, G. C.; Evers, F.: „Graphene with vacancies: Supernumerary zero modes", Phys. Rev. B 94 (6), 064204 (2016), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.064204.

Schüttert, A.; Weik, N.: „Fahrplanerstellung im Eisenbahnwesen“, Ingenieurspiegel, Ausgabe 2 (2016).

2014

Häfner, V.; Schindler, J.; Weik, N.; Mayer, T.; Balakrishnan, S.; Narayanan, R.; Bera, S.; Evers, F.: „Density of States in Graphene with Vacancies: Midgap Power Law and Frozen Multifractality", Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (18), 186802 (2014), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.186802.