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New course on Rail Traffic Planning and Management

In the coming winter term we will be offering a new course on Rail Traffic Planning & Management introducing core concepts and state-of-the-art modelling techniques for railway timetabling and capacity management

ED150037 Rail Traffic Planning and Management:
The course discusses current concepts and methods for rail traffic planning. Following a short introduction to key components in railway systems, approaches for timetabling, capacity planning, and dispatching are discussed.

After successful completion of the course
• Participants are familiar with and can identify rail traffic planning procedures and stakeholders, 
• understand concepts and current procedures in railway timetabling 
• can classify different planning problems in railway system and traffic design and their respective scopes, 
• are able to evaluate methodological approaches for capacity planning, railway timetabling, and delay propagation modelling and mitigation 
• can apply the methodologies in small real-world inspired problems

Visit by Mathias Merforth and Andrea Cárdenas Sánchez from GIZ

This week Mathias Merforth and Andrea Cárdenas Sánchez joined us for a workshop to discuss academic collaborations in transportation engineering with Mexico and gave a guest lecture in our Seminar on Railway Systems. Thank you for the interesting discussion and the insightful lecture on sustainability in rail transport system design with showcases from Mexico!

New courses on rail traffic and operations

In the summer term we will be offering three new courses:

ED150033 Railway Operations:
The course provides an introduction to railway operations and explains the fundamental technical, organizational and logistical processes in rail traffic operations. We will discuss how the rail transport system works and how different system components and personnel work together to ensure the safety and performance of railway operations.

ED150032 Rail Traffic Lab:
In this course, we will take a look "behind the scenes" of rail traffic planning software tools in order to understand and get hands-on experience in the basic concepts and peculiarities of rail-specific algorithmic approaches for train routing, timetabling and capacity planning. The course is a hands-on programming exercise where we will implement and test different approaches for train routing, timetabling, and capacity planning.

ED150034 Railway Systems Seminar:
In this interactive seminar we will review design perspectives on rail transportation systems. Complementing other courses focussing on densely operated, high-performance railway systems in Europe or East Asia, we will particularly focus on options and characteristics for less-developed networks.

We look forward to seeing you!