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Teaching

The Professorship for Design and Operation of Public Rail Transport Systems is offering lectures and interactive labs which, on the one hand, provide an extensive overview on the fundamentals of railway operations and logistics, and, on the other hand, introduce advanced methodological concepts in timetabling, capacity planning, and traffic management.

The teaching offer of the chair is continuously growing. We will offer additional courses as the Professorship grows.

Currently we offer the following courses:

Course Overview

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Rail Traffic Planning and Management

Vortragende/r (Mitwirkende/r)
Norman Weik [L]
Norman Weik [L]
Martin Tosstorff
Nummer 0000001030
Art Vorlesung mit integrierten Übungen
Umfang 4 SWS
Semester Wintersemester 2025/26
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Stellung in Studienplänen Siehe TUMonline
Termine Siehe TUMonline

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Teilnahmekriterien

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Lernziele

After successful completion of the module
• Students 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

Beschreibung

The course provides an introduction to current topics in rail traffic planning and management. After a general introduction of modelling and description of rail traffic, current concepts and methodologies for rail traffic planning and capacity management are discussed. The course is suited to prepare for a MSc or PhD project in rail traffic modelling and analysis.
• Rail Traffic Planning – Stakeholders and Overview of Planning Problems and Procedures
• Interdependencies between Railway Infrastructure, Rolling Stock and Train Operations
• Infrastructure usage of individual train runs
• Railway Timetabling – Concepts and Timetabling Principles
• Minimum Headways and Timetable Reserves
• Methodological Approaches for Timetabling
• Railway Capacity – Concepts and current approaches
• Statistical modelling of train operations
• (Max,+)-systems for railway performance modelling
• Train Dispatching

Inhaltliche Voraussetzungen

Fundamentals of train kinematics and public transport planning, comparable to, e.g., module ED150033 "Railway Operatoins" or modules BV 340007 Kinematik und Fahrdynamik, BGU56057 „Public Transport Concepts, Planning and Operation“ or comparable knowledge about vehicle dynamics and centrally organized transport systems

Lehr- und Lernmethoden

The module consists of lectures with integrated exercise classes. In the lectures the focus is on introducing the theoretical concepts and fundamental principles in rail traffic planning. In the exercise classes, the concepts discussed in the lecture are applied on practice-inspired problems involving small calculations and (voluntary) homework which are performed individually by students and discussed in the group during the exercise classes

Studien-, Prüfungsleistung

The examination consists of a written exam of 75min duration featuring 6-8 exam questions. Apart from a calculator, and a single page of hand-written notes, no additional materials are allowed.
In the exam, students demonstrate their knowledge about procedures, stakeholders, and methodological approaches in rail traffic planning and operations. The ability to successfully develop solutions to planning problems in the rail industry based on the methods discussed in the lecture is assessed based on questions requiring analytic approaches and calculations.

Empfohlene Literatur

Hansen, Pachl (eds.) Railway Timetabling and Operations,
Eurailpress, 2013;
Pachl, Railway Operation and Control, VTD Rail Publishing, Mountlake Terrace, 2018
Borndörfer et al. (eds.): Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry, Springer, 2018

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Bachelor and Master thesis projects

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We are continuously offering Bachelor and Master thesis projects related to our research topics. Please contact us via e-mail with a short description of your interests and academic background. We are also open to suggestions for possible topics matching our profile.

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