Ekkehard Wendler

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Ekkehard Wendler (born November 19, 1965 - † November 28, 2011 ) was a German transport engineer and professor for railways and transport economics at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

Ekkehard Wendler studied from 1986 to 1991 at the University of Transport in Dresden Transport Engineering . He then worked until 1993 as the main group leader in construction planning for the Deutsche Bundesbahn in Nuremberg.

From 1993 to 1997 he took a leave of absence from this work to do his doctorate on the subject of analytical calculation of scheduled waiting times in asynchronous timetable construction at RWTH Aachen University.

From 1997 on he returned to Deutsche Bahn in the network division , where he oversaw the expansion of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn and GVFG projects.

In January 2001, Wendler was appointed professor for railways and transport economics at RWTH Aachen University. His main research areas were railway infrastructure , railway management , railway safety technology and modes of transport choice. The Faculty of Civil Engineering elected him dean in October 2006 . He held this position until October 2010. During this time, the course was transformed into a Bachelor-Master system and the mobility and transport course was introduced. He was then vice dean of the faculty until his death at the age of 46.

As a spin-off from the RWTH Aachen Institute for Transport Science (VIA), he founded VIA Consulting & Development GmbH in 2008.

He was married and had four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data in the obituary notice and condolence in the Aachener Zeitung, December 3, 2011
  2. ↑ Railistics GmbH: "The members of our advisory board"
  3. ↑ German National Library: Analytical calculation of the planned waiting times for synchronous timetable construction / Ekkehard Wendler
  4. ↑ Obituary Professor Ekkehard Wendler in Rail Net Europe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rne.eu  
  5. ↑ werkstattatlas.info: RWTH VIA: Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Wandler passed away
  6. ↑ RWTH Aachen Children's University 2009: About rails, signals and delays ...
  7. ↑ Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau 1 + 2/2012 p. 73 Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard Wandler died
  8. ↑ Ekkehard Wendler passed away . Via Consulting & Development ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.via-con.de
personal data
SURNAME Wendler, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport engineer and professor for railways and transport economics at RWTH Aachen University
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1965
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2011