Stefan Engels M.Sc.
PhD Student
Arcisstrasse 21, 3rd floor, room 3942
Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 23563
stefan.engels@tum.de
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Research
Interests
- Design automation methods for the European Train Control System (ETCS), especially
- routing under Moving Block systems
- optimal block layout generation for Hybrid Train Detection systems
- Mixed integer linear programming
- Mathematical modeling and optimization
Publications
Journals
- S. Engels, T. Peham, J. Przigoda, N. Przigoda, and R. Wille. Design Tasks and Their Complexity for the European Train Control System with Hybrid Train Detection. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 2025. arXiv:2308.02572, DOI, PDF.
Conferences
- S. Engels and R. Wille. Using A* for Optimal Train Routing on Moving Block Systems. In Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization and Systems (ATMOS). 2025. PDF.
- S. Lochschmidt, S. Engels, and R. Wille. Towards Optimal Train Routing Using Microscopic Simulation on Moving Block Controlled Networks. In Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS). 2025. PDF.
- S. Engels and R. Wille. Comparing Lazy Constraint Selection Strategies in Train Routing with Moving Block Control. In Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS). 2024. arXiv:2405.18977, DOI, PDF.
Teaching
Advised Theses
- Y. Kibakura: ‘Optimal Design of Train Control Systems with Hybrid Train Detection using A*’, BA Thesis, 2024
- S. Lochschmidt: ‘Integrated Train Timetabling and Line Planning using Microscopic Moving Block Simulation’, MA Thesis, 2025
Work contributed to the scientific paper “Towards Optimal Train Routing Using Microscopic Simulation on Moving Block Controlled Networks”. - C. Yeng: ‘Automated and Time-Efficient Placement of ETCS L2 Data Points of Type 60 in ProVI LST’, MA Thesis, 2025
If you are interested in one of these works and want to have a digital copy, drop me an email.
Courses
- WT2024/25
- WT2025/26
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
| Name: | Stefan Engels |
| Nationality: | German |
Education
| Doctoral Candidate, Technical University of Munich, Germany | |
| 08/2019–09/2022 | Master's Degree (M.Sc.), Mathematics in Operations Research, Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Master's Degree (M.Sc.Eng.), Engineering Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Master’s Thesis: "Approximation Algorithms for the Survivable Network Design Problem with Node Weights" | |
| 10/2016–08/2019 | Bachelors's Degree (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Bachelor’s Thesis: "An Integer Programming Approach for the Minimal Superpermutations Problem" | |
| until 07/2016 | High-School, Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium, Aachen, Germany |
