Christoph Groneck

Christoph Groneck (born July 1, 1976 in Dinslaken ) is a German traffic planner and author with a focus on the renaissance of the tram .

Life

Groneck attended the Leibniz Gymnasium in Dormagen , where he graduated from high school on June 7, 1995 . Before his studies, he completed a three-month internship in the construction industry at Adolf Rohde GmbH in Dormagen. He then studied civil engineering with a specialization in "Transport Planning and Transport Systems " at the Bergische University in Wuppertal , where he graduated on February 5, 2001. The topic of the diploma thesis was the construction of a new tram line in Bochum to the Ruhr-Park .

During his studies, Groneck worked from 1995 to 2001 as a student assistant in the engineering office Vössing in Cologne and Düsseldorf and from 1997 also as a student assistant at the BUGH Wuppertal at the chair of "Public Traffic and Transport Systems - Local Traffic in Europe" at C. Hass-Klau. In addition, he was a city guide from 2000 to 2003 as part of the “Expansion of suspension railway” visitor program of the Wuppertal press office and Wuppertaler Stadtwerke AG .

Shortly after completing his studies, Groneck was a research assistant at the chair of “Environmentally Compatible Infrastructure Planning and Urban Planning” at the Bergische Universität. During this time he was also employed in a temporary job at the district of Mettmann to manage a passenger survey. Since 2003 Groneck has been working as a traffic planner for the Rhein-Sieg district .

In November Groneck received his doctorate on the subject of "French planning models for tram systems in comparison to Germany". In August 2013 he worked as a scientific advisor on a project study regarding the reintroduction of the tram in Bremerhaven .

Groneck is also often active as a speaker at events. There he speaks frequently on his main topic “The Renaissance of the Tram in France”.

Publications

Since 2001, Groneck has been working as a freelance journalist for various specialist journals on the subject of traffic (e.g. "Stadtverkehr", "StraßenbahnMagazin" and "Regionalverkehr"). Since 1997 he has been working as an editor at the "Nachrichtenblatt - Information on Transport Policy in the Rhineland", of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2000. Groneck is also the author of the following specialist books:

2003: New trams in France
2005: Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn Album 1 and Köln / Bonn Stadtbahn Album
2006: Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn Album 2 and metros in France

Cooperation

since 1998: Working for the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD)
since 2004: Participation in working committee 2.5 "Public Transport Systems" of the Research Association for Roads and Transport (FGSV)
2006: Temporary teaching assignment as a guest lecturer for the mathematics course at the ZVA advanced training center in Dormagen-Knechtsteden

Honors

2002: Cologne environmental protection award for a bus network optimization concept
2003: Henry Lampke Prize of the German Transport Science Society (DVWG)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f C. Groneck: French planning guidelines for tram systems in comparison to Germany, dissertation ( memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file), November 2007, accessed December 2, 2016 @1@ 2

^ Christoph Groneck: Projected tram route to the Ruhrpark shopping center. (PDF) Master's thesis by the transport planner and editor-in-chief of the newspaper “nachrichtenblatt - information on transport policy in the Rhineland” Dr.-Ing. Christoph Groneck. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 .

↑ The tram. For the future of Bremerhaven (PDF file), accessed on December 2, 2016

↑ Start: Seminar “Attractive Infrastructure: Urban Design and Public Transport - Does That Fit? / Accessibility - what does that mean? ”On November 7th, 2017 in Nürnber. In: xing.com. August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Groneck, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German traffic planner and author specializing in the renaissance of the tram
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dinslaken

[dissertation-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f C. Groneck: French planning guidelines for tram systems in comparison to Germany, dissertation ( memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file), November 2007, accessed December 2, 2016 @1@ 2

[2] Christoph Groneck: Projected tram route to the Ruhrpark shopping center. (PDF) Master's thesis by the transport planner and editor-in-chief of the newspaper “nachrichtenblatt - information on transport policy in the Rhineland” Dr.-Ing. Christoph Groneck. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 .

[3] The tram. For the future of Bremerhaven (PDF file), accessed on December 2, 2016

[xing-661550-4] Start: Seminar “Attractive Infrastructure: Urban Design and Public Transport - Does That Fit? / Accessibility - what does that mean? ”On November 7th, 2017 in Nürnber. In: xing.com. August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .