On Thursday, 09.11.2023, we kindly had the opportunity to visit the Rail Service Center Dortmund-Eving of Siemens Mobility.
The 84 vehicles of the…

Over the next three years, a consortium consisting of Siemens Mobility GmbH and the Institute for Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems at RWTH Aachen…

On Friday, August 25, we received a visit from Professor Kazuo Kashiyama from Chuo University in Tokyo. Among other focuses, Prof. Kashiyama is doing…

Last week, the IFS was represented together with the project partner QINUM at the solar trade fair INTERSOLAR within the framework of The Smarter E…

As part of the presentation of the study focus in mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, IFS opened its doors to give interested students a…

On 05.06.2023 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the RCR (Research Center Railways) of RWTH Aachen University and the Southwest…

On Thursday, June 15, 2023, Mr. Jean Geisler from IKOS Consulting Group will give a lecture with the topic "Introduction to the modern driver's desk"…

On Tuesday after Whit Monday, the IFS'ers set out for the excursion to Berlin. The group numbered 24 people, who traveled together by train.

Wednesda…

On 27.4.2023, the IFS opened its doors to interested high school students as part of the "Mint Café" of RWTH Aachen University. There was an extensive…

Attention female students of the first semester! What is currently being researched on the rail vehicle system? What do I have to study to work in…

Ensuring the strength of the load-bearing components of a rail vehicle is one of the most important tasks in the development of these products. The st…

On March 16, 2023, the VDV Advisory Board met for its conference at RWTH Aachen University. The IFS hosted the event this year. This scientific…

The new course deals with current trends, challenges and perspectives in the digitization of the railroad. It consists of lectures, guest lectures by…

The International Railway Symposium Aachen (IRSA) will be held in Aachen, Germany from November 22 - 23, 2023.

To register your participation and for…

In the last week of February, Prof. Schindler held his block lecture "Railway Vehicle Vibration Dynamics" for the first time since the Corona crisis…

Today, the Envoy Counsellor for Educational Affairs of the Royal Thai Embassy, Mrs. Sasipin Siripukdee, visited our institute. Mrs. Siripukdee…

On 28.01.2023, the career information exchange "JOB INFO LIVE" took place for the 23rd time from 9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. at the…

As part of our courses "Rail Vehicles" IV and V, we offer lectures from the field on special topics. The lectures (all in german language) are given…

We wish all our friends and project partners a good start into the New Year 2023, much happiness and success and - above all - good health.

In the SuperC building of RWTH Aachen University, Prof. Christian Schindler welcomed a good 100 participants to this year's seminar. The…

On 01.12.2022, Mr. Tobias Bettinger passed his oral doctoral examination at the IFS and thus completed his doctorate. Since then, the topic has been:…

On Tuesday 22 November 2022, Mr Jean Geisler from IKOS Consulting will give a guest lecture on the topic "Battery and Battery Networks". The French…

What is currently being researched on the rail vehicle system? Why is rail technology so important for sustainable mobility? And what does everyday…

The traditional IFS-Seminar will again take place on the second Tuesday in December. This year it is 13.12.2022. As always, it is a joint event with…

In a consortium comprising Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Hörmann Vehicle Engineering GmbH, QINUM GmbH and the Institute for Rail Vehicles and…

The winter semester 2022/23 begins. We at the IFS would like to welcome you as a first semester student to RWTH Aachen University and wish you a…

The Research Center Railways of RWTH Aachen University (RCR) was represented with the institutes VIA, ISEA and IFS at the joint stand of the VDV…

The Institute of Transport Sciences (VIA), the Institute for Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems (IFS) and DB Cargo jointly participated in the…

The International Trade Fair for Railway and Transport Technology will be held in Berlin from September 20 to 23. We will be represented at the joint…

The ties between the academics in Bangkok and RWTH Aachen are strong. At King Mongkut’s University of Technology of North Bangkok (KMUTNB) the Thai-Ge…

The Institute of Transport Sciences (VIA) and the Institute of Rail Vehicles (IFS) of RWTH Aachen University as well as DB Cargo in Aachen West are…

With the new film series "Structure + Change. RWTH and the Rhenish Revier", RWTH is highlighting scientific approaches for the Revier and beyond as…

At the invitation of Kokusai, Tokyo, an IFS team under the leadership of Prof. Schindler visited the technology center of the Japanese medium-sized…

On 30.06 and 01.07.2022 the second consortium meeting took place in presence in the project FlexSbus-LR. The current work contents of the respective…

We are very pleased to announce that we at IFS, together with our partners in the #GEARBODIES project, have won the "Best paper award" for the topic…

At the invitation of the manager, Markus Bertrams, we visited the Test and Validation Center of Siemens Mobility GmbH (PCW) in Wegberg-Wildenrath.…

As part of the presentation of the rail vehicle technology field of study with entry into the professional field of traffic engineering/vehicle…

Invitation to the lecture series of the profile area MTE on the topic "Mobility - ways into the future!"

Complex challenges will be considered from…

We are happy to report another new successful PhD student at the institute. Ashwin Walawalkar, who joined IFS in 2016 when Prof. Schindler moved from…

IFS, RWTH Aachen University, is proud to announce a new Ph.D. (Doctor Engineer) in Railways. Our former research assistant Jagoba Lekue did a very…

The lecture of the summer semester 2022 will take place from 08.04.2022, 10:30 to 12:00. The location of the lecture will be published in…

Today, we had the annual meeting between the Association of University Professors on Railways (VUE) and high ranking representatives from Deutsche…

Since a few days a new vehicle is stationed at the IFS, a light railcar LVT/S of the BR 672 or VT 504. The vehicle will be used for the joint research…

On January 13, the German-Thai Railway Association (GTRA) held a workshop for its members, as travel between the two countries is currently very…

As part of our teaching events, we offer lectures from the field on special topics. The lectures are given by renowned industry representatives.

The…

For the long-term reduction of rail production costs at zb Zentralbahn AG (Switzerland), the vision of an adhesion mountain train is being pursued.…

As part of our teaching events, we offer lectures from the field on special topics. The lectures are given by renowned industry representatives.

The…

The handover of the funding decision for the "BrainTrain JuLiA" project by Transport Minister Ina Brandis took place on 22.12.2021 in bright weather…

We are pleased about the friendly provision of a ROTRAC E2 for research purposes by the company Zwiehoff. The ROTRAC E2 for trailer loads up to 250 t…

Under extremely cautious conditions (2G+) the Research Center Railways of RWTH Aachen executed the 3rd International Railway Symposium Aachen (IRSA)…

Over the next 12 months, the Institute of Rail Vehicles and Transportation Systems at RWTH Aachen University will be investigating the possibility of…

On October 28-29, the FlexSbus-LR consortium met in person for the first time. Although the project started back in July, there were only video…

On October 27, 2021, the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Center for Rail Transport Research (DZSF) met at the Federal Railway Authority in…

The winter semester sees the start of the degree programs at RWTH Aachen University. We at the IFS would like to welcome you as a first semester…

The official start of the EU-funded Project “Ben@Rail” has taken place on October 4^th in form of a virtual kick-off meeting. The project is part of…

The autumn meeting of the VUE professors was this year jointly hosted by the VIA (Prof. Nießen) and the IFS (Prof. Schindler) from September 16 to 18…

The "OecherLab" in the Kapuziner-Karee in downtown Aachen currently offers a space for creative ideas. The OecherLab sees itself as a forward thinker,…

Professor Schindler has been appointed to the nine-member advisory board of the German Center for Rail Transport Research (DZSF).

According to its…

This is the third time that we are organising the international symposium in Aachen, which is now well established in professional circles.
Details on…

Under the project title "FlexSBus-LR" (Flexible Rail Bus for Rural Areas), the Institute of Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems in a consortium of…

Dr. Katharina Meltzer, Platform Manager for Hydrogen Trains at Siemens Mobility, will talk about hydrogen production, the use of H2 in trains and…

The invitation is aimed in particular at university graduates in the engineering professions.

It offers a direct and exclusive look behind the scenes…

The structures of the load-bearing components of a rail vehicle must do their job for decades without failure. Wheelsets, chassis frames and car…

In an interview with IAA Mobility, Professor Schindler talks about the future development of autonomous driving in rail transport. He describes the…

As part of our courses "Applied Rail Vehicle Technology" and "Product Development in Rail Vehicle Construction", we offer lectures from the field on…

We wish all our friends as well as our project partners a good start into the New Year 2021, much happiness and success and - above all - good health.…

Presentation of the IFS

We are pleased that our consortium has been commissioned by the German Centre for Railway Research (DZSF) to research alternatives to chemical…

Last week the air springs were put into operation for the first time and the seismic mass could be raised.

Afterwards the mounting plates were…

A model of the autonomous "Aachener Rail Shuttle" (ARS) on a scale of 1:24 was produced using a 3D printer. The drivable model has a distance sensor…

After completion of the trough, the next essential step was the construction of the formwork for the seismic mass.
In the meantime the reinforcing…

The IFS always offers a variety of student theses with current topics from our fields of activity in the rail vehicle sector. These include funded…

At IFS, an autonomous rail bus, the Aachener Rail Shuttle, ARS, is under consideration for some time. The battery-powered railcar is about the same…

Last week the outer foundation trough was poured and stripped. This marks a new phase in the work on the large-scale test stand. In one of the next…

After intensive deliberations, we have decided not to hold the IFS seminar this year in view of the ongoing situation (Covid-19). We regret this, but…

The work on the new IFS vibration test rig is at an important stage. The foundation work will be completed shortly.

A large book project under the direction of Prof. Frenz (Fac. 5 of the RWTH) was crowned with a grand finale this week. After about one year of work,…

Dear students,

due to the Corona crisis we are currently required to offer our courses via video stream. In order to be able to participate in the…

Due to the Corona Pandemic our institute is closed to the public until further notice.
Student assistants, student research assistants and other…

The kick-off meeting for the Shift2Rail project CARBODIN (Car Body Shells, Doors and Interiors) took place on 10-11 December 2019 in Cerdanyola…

Accompanying the course "Product Development in Rail Vehicle Engineering", Dipl.-Ing. Hans Peter Lang will again give a lecture on "Approval of rail…

The 2nd International Rail Transport Symposium (IRSA) took place in Aachen from 26 to 28 November. After a relaxed get-together on the evening of the…

For the 4th time a workshop of the German-Thai Rail Transport Partnership (GTRP) took place in Bangkok. The event took place at the new depot of BTS,…

As part of the cooperation with the Thai-German-Graduate-School (TGGS) of King Mongkut's University of Technology in North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Professor…

With 50 new students enrolled, the number of new students in the RSE program is double the previous year. Thus, the target size is already reached in…

On July 29th and 30th, a high-ranking delegation from two Thai universities visited the RWTH to talk about the planned cooperation in university…

Professor Schindler was invited by Siemens Mobility GmbH to give a presentation about digitalisation on the Customer Day for the suburban and regional…

On Friday, 26.04.2019, the festive colloquium "rail vehicles and transport systems" took place in the SuperC of RWTH Aachen.

After the welcome speech…

Invited by Prof. Blessing from SUTD, a Group of 18 members and associates from the Scientific Society for Product Development (WiGeP) visited…

As part of the EU project SAFER-LC (for "Safer Level Crossing"), technical and non-technical methods are being investigated to make intersections…

As part of our new lecture series, we offered lectures from practice on specific topics of the product development process of rail vehicles. The…

The second presentation of the series: "Product Development in Rail Vehicle Construction" was given by Dipl.-Ing. Hans Peter Lang. Mr. Lang is head…

Already for the 23rd time, the IFS, together with the German Machine Engineering Society (DMG) - traditionally every second year in December -…

At the start of the winter semester, the organizers of the internationaland interdisciplinary master's program "Railway System Engineer" (RSE) welcome…

A 20-member group of experts from the China Railway Corporation (CRC), the state-owned railway operator of China, visited as part of a Germany trip…

On the occasion of the successful signing of the contract for the use of the locomotive IFS 3 D 3, the ZLSM (Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij)…

On the 5th and 6th of October the first of a series of workshops of the German Thai Railway Partnership (GTRP) took place in Bangkok. Prof. Schindler…

As part of their autumn conference in Cottbus, the members of the Association of University Professors of Railways (VUE) have elected a new…

At the InnoTrans 2018, the IFS was represented at the joint stand of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) in Hall 2.2, Booth 302. The…

In the course of the joint project “Reliable and low-latency broadband transmission over short distances” a new wireless technology is to be developed…

The 2nd updated edition of the engineering design manual published by Hanser-Verlag München is already available. This reference book edited by Frank…

The international, interdisciplinary master programme RSE, which has been launched at the beginning of the current winter semester is now listed on…

... with best wishes for health, good luck and a lot of success in 2018.

A delegation of the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Corp. ZELC of the Chinese CRRC group has visited the IFS for the second time.

The managers were…

The 1^st Smart Mobility Symposium has been inaugurated by the Thai Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith and the German Ambassador Peter Prügel.…

The 1^st International Railway Symposium Aachen (IRSA), organised by the Research Center Railways (RCR), took place on December 28-30. The RCR is a…

The 154^th session of the Railway Rolling Stock Committee of the Association of German Transport Companies took place at the IFS on the 19^th and 20^th…

The  Institute of Transport Science (VIA), the Institute of Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) and the Institute of Rail Vehicles and…

The IFS acted as a mediator in the press conference of the “Mobility Goes Additive” network that took place at the Institute of Digital Additive…

An excursion to the test and validation centre Wegberg-Wildenrath owned by Siemens took place within the context of the lectures “Principles of Rail…

The RWTH belongs to the preferred research partners of the DB AG. This has been once again manifested with the signing of a frame contract. The…

This semester there are some news regarding the organisation of the lectures and the exercises.

Exercise dates: Due to the low demand over the last…

Since 2003 a Next Generation Award is given for innovative works within the context of the International Railway Vehicle Conference Dresden.

This…

From the summer semester 2017 onwards, the new event “Principles of Conveyor Technology” will be offered by the Chair and Institute of Rail Vehicles…

The event “Job-info-Live” took place at the Maximilian-Kolbe-Gymnasium in Wegberg on the 18^th February 2017 for the 18^th time.

More than 80 companies…

On the 9^th February 2017 a trip to the Frankfurt local public transport operator VGF took place for interested students of the lecture “Principles of…

DB Systel is testing the automated driving on the track in a pilot project. The road-rail vehicles used for shunting tasks are to be equipped with the…

Our team needs reinforcement and we are searching for new research assistants. Please check the offers by clicking the tab Jobs/Career or directly her…

The ministries of transport of Thailand and Germany have signed a common declaration of intent with regard to the intensified cooperation in the field…

The Institute of Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems offers a review course for the lecture “Mechatronic Systems in Vehicle Engineering” once again…

After almost one year holding office, the inaugural address of Professor Schindler took place on Wednesday evening. During the presentation, entitled…

The 18^th International Wheelset Congress, which is organised at different locations every three years since 1963, took place this time in Chengdu,…

Since the Chinese companies CNR and CRS merged into the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), this new company is the biggest manufacturer…

The InnoTrans, the world's biggest industrial fair of rail transport, took place in Berlin from the 20^th to the 23^rd of September. The IFS, together…

On September 19, the IFS hosted a delegation of professors of the railway field and the vice-chancellor for international affairs of the University of…

A visit to the Hambach open-pit mine was organised for the students after concluding the lectures and exercises of the module Continuous Conveyors,…

The group structural integrity, in collaboration with the Altair company, will offer a training course in the field of the finite element method in…

The IFS has received a research contract from the renowned German roller coaster manufacturer Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH.

In the field of…

The International Trade Fair for Transport Technology takes place once more in Berlin in September. Interested visitors can get free tickets at our…

This year the Institute of Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems participates in the fair together with the FH Aachen. You can find us at the VDV joint…

Dear visitors,

We are pleased to present our new website. We hope that you like it and that you find the information you are looking for. The page…

The new professor gave his first lecture on the subject ‘Principles of Rail Vehicle Technology’ (Sfz 1) today at 10:15. Due to the high number of…

The International Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium at the University of Kaiserslautern took place from 8^th to 10^th March. For the first time,…