systransis Team

Prof. Ulrich Weidmann

Board of Directors, Scientific External Expert

Masters in Civil Engineering, ETH, 1988
Ph.D. ETH, 1994

• Professor for Transportation Systems at ETH Zurich, Institute for Traffic Planning and Transport Systems, Departments of Construction, Environmental, and Geomatics.
• Area Manager Engineering Rail Systems in the Division of Infrastructure SBB
• Project Manager Safety System and Tunnel Radio/GSM-R of Lötschberg-Basislinie.
• Area Manager Engineering Rail Systems in Operational Division System Management of Division Infrastructure SBB.
• Associate Area Manager Regional Transportation or Division Passenger Transportation SBB.
• Manager Regional Transportation in the Direction of Passenger Transportation.
• Transportation Engineer in the Direction of Passenger Transportation SBB, Division Planing and Coordination; from 1997 Leader of Group for Transportation Planning/Coordination RPV and Assistant Division Leader.
• Engineering in the Business Direction SBB, Division Concept.
• Assistant Lecturer at IVT der ETH Zurich, Area of Public Transportation.
• Assistant at IVT der ETH Zurich, Areas of Passenger and Public and Transportation.

• Urban Transport – Development of market oriented and cost effective public transport in metropolitan areas: optimal transport decision-making in agglomerations from the perspective of community objectives, transport objectives and potential for intermodal connections; cost efficient and customer attractive public transport network design; potential for combined transport.
• Freight Transport – Future railway freight operations and technology in the context of global logistics: the impact of the path pricing systems on modal shift from road to rail; the potential for intermodal freight to impact development patterns; freight transport modal split models; sustainable logistics chains.
• System Operations – Stable operation of highly saturated networks: high precision systems for controlling trains in network bottleneck areas; improving operating stability in mixed traffic systems; operational robustness against disturbances.
• Pedestrian Technology: Analysis and simulation of passenger boarding, alighting and transferring; analysis and simulation of pedestrian movements, processes and facility sizing/design procedures.

• Transport and public policy, transport regulation
• Organization and financing of public transport, public transport business models
• Infrastructure development, infrastructure organization
• Technical standards, regulations, innovation management