Interdisciplinary research network for railway technology

Interdisciplinary Research Association for Railway Technology e. V. ; (IFV RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY)
legal form	registered association
Seat	Berlin
founding	1995
place	Berlin, Germany
Board	Raphael Pfaff
Former board members	Pedro Portella, Markus Hecht, Klaus Knothe
Website	www.ifv-bahntechnik.de

The interdisciplinary research association for railway technology e. V. (IFV Eisenbahnechnik e.V., Interdisciplinary Railway Research Network ) is an association with the aim of promoting the further development of rail technology and traffic engineering.

This includes the tasks of research funding, profiling at the participating institutions, interdisciplinary cooperation, cooperation with operators and the railway industry, dissemination and discussion of research results in publications and events.

history

IFVbahnechnik e. V. in 1995. The founding initiative came from the Technical University of Berlin and the Senate Administration of the Federal State of Berlin , with the aim of promoting the modernization of rail technology through an interdisciplinary research network. The seat of the association is Berlin; the association has an internationally unrestricted radius of action with a geographical focus on German-speaking Europe. On December 18, 2015, the association celebrated the twenty-year anniversary of the association in the Berlin House of Representatives with a ceremony under the patronage of the President of Parliament.

Members of the association are buyers, operators, manufacturers, service providers, research institutions, associations and press representatives.

organization

According to the articles of association (as amended on January 31, 2012), the association is represented by the board. The board of directors includes Prof. Dr. Raphael Pfaff (Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Department of Rail Vehicle Technology) as board spokesman and board members Mihai Demian (Certified Consultant), Michael Brandhorst (Photon Meissener Technologies GmbH), Steffen Kürth ( Siemens Mobility GmbH ) join the board of the association. Rüdiger Wendt (TBG Technisches Gemeinschaftsbüro GmbH) was elected as a member of the extended board. The previous spokesman for the board, Prof. Dr. Pedro D. Portella ( Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing ) remains associated with the association as a member of the scientific advisory board. The former board spokesman Markus Hecht ( Technische Universität Berlin ) was made an honorary member and appointed spokesman for the IFV BAHNTECHNIK advisory board. The organs of the association are advised by an advisory board made up of around 30 experts, which consists of three sub-advisory boards:

Scientific Advisory Board
Political and social advisory board
Economic Advisory Board.

The association organizes an extensive competence network in more than 25 specialist areas of rail and traffic technology. The federal office of the association is based in Berlin - on the grounds of the Technical University of Berlin am Salzufer.

activity

IFVbahnechnik is an independent network with around 10,800 members, partners and sponsors worldwide (as of May 2013). To the approx. 25 subject areas dealt with by the working groups (competence networks) of the association include:

Bahn-AERODYNAMIK RAIL-AERODYNAMICS (International Conference - in English)
Railway ACOUSTICS (rail noise, sonRAIL, railway acoustics seminar at the Technical University of Berlin )
RAILWAY OPERATION
Railway FIRE PROTECTION ( fire safety )
Railway MAINTENANCE
Railway RESEARCH (research funding)
Railway INTERIOR TECHNOLOGY (Interior Design, Safe Interiors)
RAIL AIR CONDITIONING ( RAIL AIR CONDITIONING (HVAC) )
Railway MANAGEMENT (Strateg. Management)
Bahn-PRM (Barrier-Free Mobility for People with Reduced Mobility)
Railway SAFETY (Passive Safety etc.)
Railway information technology (RAIL-IT, information technology in transport: software, hardware, interfaces, telematics)
Railway MATERIALS and MATERIAL EFFICIENCY
Technical approval for rail vehicles ( TSI )
Railway approval for railway infrastructure ( TSI )
ENERGY efficiency and EMISSION reduction
OVERALL RAIL TRANSPORT SYSTEM (urban, regional, national and international aspects of mobility)
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT in the rail and traffic technology sector
CONTROL AND SECURITY TECHNOLOGY
RAIL TRAILS
RAIL VEHICLES (Rolling stock)
Rail freight transport
RAIL PASSENGER TRANSPORT
STREET-RAILWAYS and SUBWAYS
QUALITY [IRIS Certification, Quality Management]
TRAFFIC POLICY (public transport, regional rail transport)
LANE TRANSITIONS
STOPPING STATIONS, TRAIN STATIONS

Research projects (selection)

LEILA-DG: Lightweight and low-noise freight car bogie
Safe Travel: Passive safety of passengers and staff in railway vehicles
sonRAIL: Railway noise calculation model (on behalf of the Swiss Federal Administration)
Numerous projects within the scope of ZIM (Central Innovation Program for SMEs) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

Public conferences and conference documentation in book form

PASSIVE SAFETY of RAIL VEHICLES 2015. 10th international symposium on passive safety, crash safety , interior design, Berlin, May 7th - 8th, 2015, ISBN 978-3-940727-48-0 .
FIRE SAFETY in RAILWAY SYSTEMS 2015. 7th international symposium on rail fire protection, Vienna, 26. – 27. March 2015; ISBN 978-3-940727-47-3 .
RAIL AIR CONDITIONING - HVAC 2013: 2nd expert conference on rail air conditioning, Munich, December 17-18, 2013 / IFV rail technology; ISBN 978-3-940727-40-4 .
FIRE SAFETY 2013: 6th international expert conference on the subject of railway fire protection, Rostock, September 25th - 27th, 2013 / IFV railway technology; ISBN 978-3-940727-39-8 Table of contents (PDF; 351 kB)
PASSIVE SAFETY - Passive Safety of Rail Vehicles 2013: 9th symposium on passive safety in rail vehicles, Berlin, February 21-22, 2013 / TU Berlin; IFV railway technology .; contents
TRAM SYMPOSIUM 2013:; contents
Rail PRM; contents
Railway PRM 2015
Vehicle technology rail vehicles
Railway infrastructure, track construction, slab track
Control technology ETCS
Railway acoustics seminar (in cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin)
Railway fire protection (title index of the German National Library http://d-nb.info/1042633355 )
Railway technical approval ( interoperability / technical specifications interoperability (TSI))

RAIL-QUALITY quality management in the railway sector (IRIS certification)

Railway air conditioning

RAIL-IT (rail software, rail hardware, interfaces, telematics)

RAIL AERODYNAMICS

RAIL-NOISE (5th international symposium, Berlin, February 18-19, 2016)

Symposium on MODERN RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORT

International Symposium on Passive Safety for Rail Vehicles Passive Safety

BAHNTECHNIK SYMPOSIUM BERLIN (BSB 2011 - under the patronage of Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer )

Publications

IFVbahnechnik e. V. publishes the BAHNTECHNIK AKTUELL series of publications , which currently comprises 58 specialist books (as of February 2016). or the complete directory of the BAHNTECHNIK AKTUELL series of publications: List of publications: www.ifv-bahntechnik.de/habenverzeichnis.pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

[1] Program of the anniversary celebration TWENTY YEARS IFV BAHNTECHNIK

[2] Public list of advisory board members

[3] ZIM

[4] BMWi

[5] Conference documentation of the 9th symposium on passive safety in rail vehicles, Berlin, February 21-22, 2013 / TU Berlin; Ifv railway technology

[6] TRAM - Vehicles and Infrastructure; Berlin, 6.-7. December 2012; Conference documentation of the III. International symposium on "Trams"

[7] BAHN-PRM 2013: Accessibility at train stations and rail vehicles 2012 Conference documentation of the 2nd expert conference on PRM, Berlin, 8. – 9. November 2012

[8] Passive safety of rail vehicles (8th International Symposium on Passive Safety of Rail Vehicles, Berlin, February 10-11, 2011). TU Berlin; Ifv railway technology

[9] Title index according to the catalog of the German National Library