101-0415-01L Public Transport and Railways
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2024 |
| Lecturers | F. Corman |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Abstract | Fundamentals of public and collective transport, in its different forms. Categorization of performance dimensions of public transport systems, and their implications to their design and operations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Teaches the basic principles of public transport network and topology design, to understand the main characteristics and differences of public transport networks, based on buses, railways, or other technologies. Teaches students to recognize the interactions between the infrastructure design and the production processes, and various performance criteria based on various perspective and stakeholders. At the end of this course, students can critically analyze existing networks of public transport, their design and use; consider and substantiate different choices of technologies to suitable cases; optimize the use of resources in public transport. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Fundamentals: Infrastructures and vehicle technologies of public transport systems; interaction between track and vehicles; passengers and goods as infrastructure users; management and financing of networks. Infrastructure: Planning processes and decision levels in network development and infrastructure planning, planning of topologies; tracks and roadways, station infrastructures; Fundamentals of the infrastructure design for lines; track geometries; switches and crossings Vehicles: Classification, design and suitability for different goals Network design: design dilemmas, conceptual models for passenger transport on long distance, urban regional transport. Operations: Passenger/Supply requirements for line operations; timetabling, measures of realized operations, capacity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Slides, in English, are made available some days before each lecture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Reference material books are provided in German and English (list disseminated at lecture), plus Skript Bahninfrastruktur; System- und Netzplanung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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