Walther Lambert

Walther Lambert (born June 30, 1908 in Ludwigsburg , † February 15, 1987 in Stuttgart ) was a German transport scientist and professor for railways and transport at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

Career

Walther Lambert studied civil engineering at the TH Stuttgart, after which he began his career at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This assigned him to 1938 as a scientific assistant to Carl Pirath at the TH Stuttgart. This was followed by positions on the board of the Aachen Works Office and as head of operations at the Reichsbahndirektion in Cologne . From 1948 to 1950 he worked again as a scientific assistant at the TH Stuttgart, before he was responsible for the planning department of the Federal Railway Directorate in Stuttgart from 1951 and in particular with the project of the Stuttgart S-Bahn . During this time he also received his doctorate with the dissertation The vertical loosening of urban traffic - a space and cost problem of rail-based transport . In 1955 he succeeded Pirath's professor for railways and transport at the TH Stuttgart and director of the institute for transport at the TH Stuttgart. He stayed in both until 1975.

Selection of works

The name Walther Lambert is associated with eleven research books from the (today's) Transport Science Institute in Stuttgart. These deal with a. with helicopter traffic, large shipping on the Upper Rhine , mail delivery in large cities, P + R and travel time comparisons .

1. Oil pipelines from a transport point of view. Verlag Springer, 1962 (with Dietrich Meyer)
2. Local railways of the big cities; Space and cost problems of vertical loosening: Space and cost problems of vertical loosening. Springer publishing house, 1956
3. Connection of the commercial airports in the Federal Republic of Germany to public high-speed transport networks. 1969
4. Transport economic study of the effects of the new refineries in south and south-west Germany and in Alsace on the future development of the transport of mineral oil products in the state of Baden-Württemberg. 1964
5. The vertical loosening of urban traffic poses a space and cost problem for rail-based transport. 1956
6. Transport issues of local air traffic. 1960
7. Traffic in the European Economic Community. 1961
8. Need and prospects of a close air traffic in the southwest of Germany: investigation. 1963 (with Erwin Skubinna)
9. Economy of the helicopter: Influence of the payload capacity and airspeed on the economy of helicopters. 1959 (with Erwin Skubinna, Helmuth Brusberg)

literature

• City Archives: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart 1984–1987. Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart, p. 367 ISBN 3-608-91345-9 .
• Festive colloquium on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Transport Science Institute at the University of Stuttgart and the 70th birthday of Professor Doktor-Ing. Walther Lambert. Stuttgart, 1979

Web links

• VWI website on Prof. Lambert