Innovation Center ● Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Hecht
Rail vehicles
©M. Hecht
DIRECTOR
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Hecht
Berlin University of Technology
Rail Vehicles Specialty
Phone +49 30 314 25195
Fax +49 30 31422529
E-mail markus.hecht@tu-berlin.de
Short Vita
Professional stations:
- since 1997 Head of the Department of Rail Vehicles at the Institute of Land and Sea Transport at the Technical University of Berlin
- 1988 to 1997 in managerial position at Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik AG in Winterthur
- 1988 Doctorate on the subject of "track position measurement
- until 1988 studies and work as research assistant at the RTWH Aachen
Other activities and functions:
- Since February 2017, Prof. Hecht has been a member of the board of "Allianz pro Schiene".
- Since 2016 Member of the VDI Advisory Board for Railway Technology
- In 2002, he was appointed Advisory Professor at Tongji University Shanghai
- Deputy Head of the "Quiet Traffic" Research Network
- Advisory board of technical journal "ZEV-Rail Glasers Annalen" and "Eisenbahningenieur
- Member of the EU expert team EURNEX
- Expert assessor for rail vehicles at the German and Swiss accreditation bodies DAKKS and SAS
- Member of the ERRAC Strategic Board (ERRAC = European Rail Research Advisory Council) and the TIS (technical innovation group rail freight)
Research and development
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Telematics and maintenance for rail vehicles
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Acoustics of rail vehicles
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Multibody simulations for longitudinal dynamics and wear behavior.
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Energy efficiency calculations and simulations
Expertise
- Development of telematics and sensor systems as part of the research work on the digitalization of rail freight transport
- Investigations of condition-based maintenance for freight wagons
- Research into innovative approaches and solutions for the reduction of railroad noise at track, vehicle and track construction machines.
- Solution of acoustic measurement tasks by means of state-of-the-art measurement technology
- Investigations and simulations on excitation mechanisms of railroad noise
- Multibody simulations for the longitudinal dynamics of passenger and freight trains
- Multibody simulations of the wear behavior of wheel and rail
- Calculations of energy and fuel consumption as well as CO2 emissions for passenger and freight trains on real routes
- Design and assessment of energy saving potentials
- Engineering services in the fields of acoustics, running technology, telematics, passive safety
Reference projects
"Research project "Concretization and prediction of maintenance intervals by using digital twins".
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