Chair of Traffic Flow Science

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Traffic Flow Science

The term „traffic flow theory“ was heavily influenced by Gerhart Potthoff. The Chair of traffic flow science is concerned with the use of knowledge and methods of different scientific disciplines with the analysis, evaluation, planning, simulation and design of transportation / logistics processes.

teaching areas

In the lectures and exercises students are taught theoretical knowledge and presented methods that come from different areas of science (mathematics, computer science, operation theory, physics, ‥) and for analysis, evaluation, planning and design of transportation / logistics processes are used.

Main research interests

A major research focus is the further development of the program system TAKT for generating clock timetables in large railway networks. There are also research projects on the safety record of railway components. Back lying there were projects for the optimization of air service processes and optimize networks of public passenger transport.

The chair of Traffic Flow Science

The chair concentrates upon the theoretical bases of traffic flows on networks as well as upon methods of the analysis, assessment, planning and control of traffic systems. Besides, there come method from other science areas like mathematics, physics and informatics generally and especially statistics, operation theory and operation research to the application.

Employees with several education (traffic engineers, traffic economists, mathematicians and information scientists) belong to the chair.

The employees are lectures and exercises for the graduate degree program transport engineering, bachelor's degree program in transport economics and master's degree program railway system engineering.

In research was/is working on issues such as automatic generation of clock timetables in large railway networks, optimizing networks for public passenger transport, slot allocation in air transport and safety case for railway components .