Dr.-Ing. Christopher Szymula

Dr.-Ing. Christopher Szymula is a real railway enthusiast and started his career as a light rail driver in 2010. After successfully finishing his studies of traffic and transportation engineering, he became a PhD-student at the chairs of railway operations and traffic flow science at the “Friedrich List” faculty of traffic and transportation sciences. He successfully graduated in 2024. In parallel, he was optimizing public transit in Leipzig as traffic engineer and also led the team of transportation technology at Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB). Since January 2026, Christopher works full time at the chair of railway operations. His research interests span the topics of railway network capacity, network resilience, multimodal disruption management and AI-based problem reduction. Furthermore, he still collects on-board evidence as tram driver.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Railway network capacity
Network resilience
Multimodal disruption managemen
AI-based problem reduction

Veröffentlichungen

7 Einträge

2025

Demand-based capacity assessment using mixed integer programmingSzymula, C., Bešinović, N. & Nachtigall, K., 15 Jan. 2025, in: Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management. 33, 17 S., 100502Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

2024

Quantifying periodic railway network capacity using petri nets and macroscopic fundamental diagramSzymula, C., Bešinović, N. & Nachtigall, K., Jan. 2024, in: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 158(2024), 28 S., 104436Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

2023

Promising solutions for railway operations to cope with future challenges — Tackling COVID and beyondWang, Z., Aoun, J., Szymula, C. & Bešinović, N., Dez. 2023, in: Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management. 28, 13 S., 100405Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
Vulnerability envelopes for railway transport networksBešinović, N. & Szymula, C., 6 Sept. 2023, International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science 2023Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Konferenzbericht/Sammelband/Gutachten > Beitrag in Konferenzband

2022

Resilience assessment of railway networks: Combining infrastructure restoration and transport managementBešinović, N., Ferrari Nassar, R. & Szymula, C., Aug. 2022, in: Reliability engineering & system safety. 224, 108538Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

2021

Estimating impacts of covid19 on transport capacity in railway networksBešinović, N. & Szymula, C., 2021, in: European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research : EJTIR. 21, 1, S. 1-18, 18 S.Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

2020

Passenger-centered vulnerability assessment of railway networksSzymula, C. & Bešinović, N., Juni 2020, in: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 136, S. 30-61, 32 S.Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel

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