Orth, Hermann

ETH Zurich Hermann Orth Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) HIL F 12.1 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15 8093 Zurich SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 44 633 31 09 E-Mail:

Projects

current

• Study on the attractiveness of transit services within cities and influences thereon, since August 2011
• Organization of the conference IT13.Rail, in cooperation with Systransis AG, SMA und Partner AG and OpenTrack Railway Technology Ltd, since August 2011
• Quality and capacity of road public transit, VSS 2007/305, since January 2010
• Information technologies in future freight transportation economy, subproject E of master research project „strategies for adequate applications of means of transport in freight traffic in Switzerland“, SVI 2009/005, since December 2009

completed

• TESS - Intermodal Solutions for Trans-European Temperature-Sensitive Shipments, May 2011
• Application areas of various means of transportation in agglomerations, SVI 2004/039, June 2011
• Organization of the conference on different user´s competition for space and time in urban transport in cooperation with the VBZ (Zurich Public Transport), March 2011

Publications

• Orth, H., U. Weidmann, R. Dorbritz (2012) Development of a Public Transport Performance Measurement System presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA, January 2012
• Weidmann, U., R. Dorbritz, H. Orth, M. Scherer, P. Spacek (2011) Application areas of various means of transportation in agglomerations, final report SVI 2004/039, report nr. 1345, Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, DETEC, Berne
• Weidmann, U.; H. Orth (2011) Mit Bus und Tram durch dichte Räume, TEC21, 21/2011 pp. 32 – 35
• Orth, H., R. Dorbritz, U. Weidmann (2011) Public Transport Capacity and Quality – Development of an LOS-Based Evaluation Scheme , 11th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, May 2011
• Orth, H., M. Scherer, U. Weidmann (2011) Small agglomerations, high transit use: Transportation system deployment and land use in Switzerland. Poster presentation at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA, January 2011

Presentations

• Orth, H. (2011) Einsatzbereiche verschiedener Verkehrsmittel in Agglomerationen, presentation at SVI Fachtagung, Olten, September 2011

Teaching

• Spring semester 2012, supervision of a master´s thesis on 24/7 public transport services in Switzerland, D. Länzlinger
• Spring semester 2012, teaching assistant for a class on freight transport and logistics
• Fall semester 2011, teaching assistant for a class on safety and reliability in railway operations
• Fall semester 2010, teaching assistant for a class on safety and reliability in railway operations
• Spring semester 2010, supervision of a master´s thesis on the improvement of a heavily used multimodal urban transportation facility at the example of the Central in Zurich, M. Schauwecker

Education

09/2009

Completion of M.S. at Northwestern University, Research report titled "Estimating urban arterial link delays due to curbside stopping occurences"

09/2008 - 09/2009

Graduate student at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

10/2005 - 8/2008

Student (Diplom) in civil engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
specialization in regional and infrastructure planning