Dissertation project
Probabilistic Operating Concepts for Highly Automated and Autonomous Rail Vehicles in Rural Areas
Collaborations
Martin Comis: Robust Primary Care Systems
Katharina Eickhoff: Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems under Uncertainties
Dennis Fischer: Optimization under Uncertainty
Janosch Fuchs: Special Online Problems with Advice
Christoph Grüne: Complexity and Algorithms in Optimization under Uncertainty
Rebecca Haehn: Satisfiability Checking for Optimisation of Timetables in Railway Engineering under Consideration of Uncertainties
Tabea Krabs: Robust Hospital Management
Björn Tauer: Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time
Laura Vargas Koch: Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time
Matthias Volk: Dynamic Fault Trees: Semantics, Analysis and Applications
Norman Weik: Long-term capacity planning of railway infrastructure : a stochastic approach capturing infrastructure unavailability
Prizes and Awards
Accepted Paper: "The impact of buffer time distributions on the nominal capacity of railway lines"
Engagement
Organisation of the Meeting of the German Computer Science Research Training Groups
Talks
Bi-Weekly Talk: Stephan Zieger: The Dial-a-Ride Problem in Railways
Bi-Weekly Talk: Stephan Zieger: Identifying and Reducing Performance Uncertainty in UK Railway Timetables
Presentation for UnRAVeL application: Stephan Zieger

 

Bachelor/Master Theses

In the past, I have been supervising the following theses:

• Callistus Okoye, Demand-Responsive Rail Transport: Opportunities, Challenges and Financing, 2022, Master Thesis
• Yaswanth Torangallu Junjgondru Harishankar, Disruption Management in Railway Systems, 2022, Master Thesis
• Caglar Firat: Usage of RAMS-Methods in the Railway Sector, 2021, Master Thesis
• Christopher Menzel, Die Einordnung der Eisenbahn als Kritische Infrastruktur, 2020, Bachelor Thesis
• Christoph Grüne, Dial-a-Ride for Railway Traffic, 2019, Master Thesis
• Malte Schmidt, Stochastic Performance Modelling of Railway Station Areas, 2019, Master Thesis
• Felix Lampe, Analyse der Modellierung von Einbruchsverspätungen im Eisenbahnwesen, 2018 Master Thesis
• Xiabingqing Wu, Bestelleingangsprüfung im Prozess der Digitalen Kapazitätssteigerung, 2018, Master Thesis
• Bianca Eichin, Vergleich von Trassenvergabeverfahren unter Berücksichtigung von Auktionsmodellen, 2017, Bachelor Thesis
• Tobias Müller, Auswertung von Störfällen anhand von Daten des Leitsystems Disposition (LeiDis) der DB-Netz AG, 2017, Bachelor Thesis
• Felix Lampe, Automatische Detektion von Infrastrukturänderungen im Eisenbahnnetz der DB Netz AG, 2016, Bachelor Thesis
• Denis Löbbering, Trassierungsvarianten und Fahrplanstudien zur schienenseitigen Anbindung der Stadt Heinsberg an die niederländische Stadt Roermond, 2016, Bachelor Thesis

 

Reviews

• Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management
• 7th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis
• 1st International Railway Symposium Aachen
• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
• International Journal of Rail Transportation
• 23rd Euro Working Group on Transportation
• 32nd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium
• 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation

 

Publications related to UnRAVeL

Source	Author(s)
[Book, Journal Article] Solving the Dial-a-Ride Problem for Railway Traffic by Means of Heuristics In: Communications in computer and information science, 1843, 93-133, 2023 [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37470-8_5]	Grüne, Christoph Manfred (Corresponding author) Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author)
[Journal Article] Weiterentwicklung der Streckenstandards zur Gestaltung der betrieblichen Infrastruktur In: Deine Bahn : DB, 50 (10), 46-51, 2022	Müller, Tobias (Corresponding author) Zieger, Stephan Pfeifer, Andreas Hilbrich, Erwin Schaer, Thorsten
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] A simulation framework for the operation of automated small rail vehicles in rural areas In: [13th World Congress on Railway Research, WCRR2022, 2022-06-06 - 2022-06-10, Birmingham, UK], 6 Seiten, 2022	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Demand-responsive Scheduling in Railway Transportation In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems / Editors: Jeroen Ploeg, Markus Helfert, Karsten Berns and Oleg Gusikhin, 239-248, 2022 [DOI: 10.5220/0011018700003191]	Grüne, Christoph Manfred (Corresponding author) Zieger, Stephan
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] Analysing Rail Traffic Patterns in Operational Data In: [9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, RailBeijing2021, 2021-11-03 - 2021-11-07, Beijing, Peoples R China], 17 Seiten, 2022	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Lenze, Wiebke Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] Sub-Threshold Delays and GB Timetable Quality In: [9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, RailBeijing2021, 2021-11-03 - 2021-11-07, Beijing, Peoples R China], 21 Seiten, 2022	Armstrong, John (Corresponding author) Preston, John Zieger, Stephan Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] The Dial-a-Ride Problem in Railways In: [9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, RailBeijing2021, 2021-11-03 - 2021-11-07, Beijing, Peoples R China], 19 Seiten, 2022	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Opportunities and Challenges for the Demand-Responsive Transport Using Highly Automated and Autonomous Rail Units in Rural Areas In: 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 11-17 July 2021, 77-82, 2021 [DOI: 10.1109/IV48863.2021.9575561]	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Nießen, Nils (Corresponding author)
[Report] UnRAVeL Research Training Group : Uncertainty and Randomness in Algorithms, Verification, and Logic, 2020	Katoen, Joost-Pieter Ritzert, Martin Wilke, Richard Marlon Dannert, Katrin M. Lindner, Peter et al.
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] Analyse der Umsetzung von Eisenbahnprojekten des BVWP 2003 In: Die Schere zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit : 36. Horber Schienen-Tage, 21. bis 25. November 2018, Horb am Neckar : Tagungsband / herausgegeben von Christina Brock, Rudolf Barth, 65-73, 2020	Isenhöfer, Laura Zieger, Stephan
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Waiting for Trains: Complexity Results In: Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics : 6th International Conference, CALDAM 2020, Hyderabad, India, February 13-15, 2020 : Proceedings / Manoj Changat, Sandip Das (Eds.), 282-303, 2020 [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-39219-2_24]	Tauer, Björn Frederik (Corresponding author) Fischer, Dennis Fuchs, Janosch Vargas Koch, Laura Zieger, Stephan
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] Identifying and Reducing Performance Uncertainty in UK Railway Timetables In: IRSA 2019 : Tagungsband, Proceedings : 2nd International Railway Symposium Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 26-28 November 2019 / Herausgeber Univ.-Prof. Dr. ir. Dr. h. c. De Doncker, Rik W. (Institut für Stromrichtertechnik und elektrische Antriebe (ISEA), Aachen), Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nießen, Nils (Verkehrswissenschaftliches Institut (VIA), Aachen), Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Schindler, Christian (Institut für Schienenfahrzeuge und Transportsysteme (IFS)/Institute of Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems, 288-305, 2020 [DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2020-00143]	Armstrong, John (Corresponding author) Zieger, Stephan Preston, John Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] A Generalized Stochastic Petri Net Model for Performance Analysis of Trackside Infrastructure in Railway Station Areas under Uncertainty In: The 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference - ITSC : Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 October 2019 / IEEE, IEEE-ITSC 2019, ITSS - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 3732-3737, 2019 [DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2019.8917459]	Schmidt, Malte Weik, Norman (Corresponding author) Zieger, Stephan Schmeink, Anke Nießen, Nils
[Journal Article] The influence of buffer time distributions in delay propagation modelling of railway networks In: Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 8 (3/4), 220-232, 2018 [DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2018.09.001]	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Weik, Norman Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] The impact of buffer time distributions on the nominal capacity of railway lines In: Computers in Railways XVI : Railway Engineering Design and Operation / Edited By: G. Passerini, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy; J. M. Mera, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain; N. Tomii, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan; P. Tzieropoulos, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 307-318, 2018 [DOI: 10.2495/CR180281]	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Weik, Norman Nießen, Nils
[Journal Article] Analyse der Umsetzung von Aus- und Neubauvorhaben im Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2003 In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, 67 (7+8), 52-57, 2018	Isenhöfer, Laura Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author)
[Contribution to a conference proceedings] The influence of buffer time distributions on delay propagation in railway networks In: IRSA 2017 : Tagungsband, Proceedings : 1st International Railway Symposium Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 28-30 November 2017 / Herausgeber Univ.-Prof. Dr. ir. Dr. h. c. De Doncker, Rik W. (Institut für Stromrichtertechnik und elektrische Antriebe (ISEA), Aachen), Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nießen, Nils (Verkehrswissenschaftliches Institut (VIA), Aachen), Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Schindler, Christian (Institut für Schienenfahrzeuge und Transportsysteme (IFS)/Institute of Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems, 279-295, 2018 [DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2018-222704]	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Weik, Norman Nießen, Nils
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Der Einfluss von Pufferzeitverteilungen im Fahrplan auf die Modellierung der Folgeverspätungen im Eisenbahnwesen In: 26. Verkehrswissenschaftliche Tage an der Technischen Universität Dresden : Tagungsband : 14 und 15. März 2018 / Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften, 731-745	Zieger, Stephan (Corresponding author) Weik, Norman Nießen, Nils