Professor Felix Schmid Dip.El.Ing.ETH, PhD, CEng., FIMechE, FIRSE, Eurailing

Department of Civil Engineering
Honorary Professor in the School of Civil Engineering

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 5138
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 4291
Email: f.schmid@bham.ac.uk

Address: Centre for Railway Research and Education
Gisbett Kapp Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Felix Schmid is the programme director for the MSc in Railway Systems Engineering and Integration.

Teaching

Professor Schmid teaches aspects of railway systems engineering, notably, train control, signalling, economics and strategic management. Together with Charles Watson and Piers Connor he has developed railway systems engineering short programmes for Bechtel, HMRI, London Underground and other organisations.

Other activities

Membership of Professional Organisations

Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow of the Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers
European Railway Engineer (EurailIng)
Councillor, Union of European Railway Engineers’ Associations
Railway Study Association

External Examining

University of East London, Undergraduate programmes in engineering and doctorate
Kingston University, Foundation and BEng degrees in Railway Rolling Stock Systems
External examiner for doctorates at University of Birmingham, Loughborough University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Staffordshire University, Universidad de Ciudad Real

External Speaking Engagements

Lecture on Isambard Kingdom Brunel (presented 10 times, in different forms)
Lecture on Swiss Approaches to Railway Capacity Management (presented 3 times, in different forms)
Lecture on Straw-bale Construction of multi-storey buildings (presented 2 times)

Honorary Lectureships

University of Sheffield
École Centrale Lille
ENPC, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris

University Committees

Committee member of the AUT at Brunel University
College computer committee at University of Birmingham

External committees / working groups

Qualifications committee of the Union of European Railway Engineers’ Associations
Councillor, Union of European Railway Engineers’ Associations

Other Interests

Straw-bale construction of multi-storey buildings, promotion of railway transport, development of a railway training and test facility in the West Midlands

Publications

Recent publications

Article

King, J, Nicholson, G & Schmid, F 2024, 'State-of-the-art in managing reliability in mega railway projects. A systematic literature review', Safety and Reliability, vol. 42, no. 2-3, pp. 60-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09617353.2023.2284019

Moore, T, Schmid, F & Tricoli, P 2021, 'Voltage transient management for Alternating Current trains with vacuum circuit breakers', IET Electrical Systems in Transportation. https://doi.org/10.1049/els2.12034

Liu, J, Schmid, F, Zheng, W & Zhu, J 2019, 'Understanding railway operational accidents using network theory', Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 189, pp. 218-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.04.030

Xue, X, Robinson, M, Schmid, F & Smith, R 2018, 'Development issues for impact safety of rail vehicles: Robustness of crashworthy designs, effect of structural crashworthiness on passenger safety and behaviour characterisation of vehicle materials', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, vol. 232, no. 2, pp. 461-470. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954409716674982

Wemakor, W, Jack, A & Schmid, F 2017, 'Establishing the Relationship between Railway Safety & Operational Performance', International Journal of Transport Development and Integration, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 98-114.

Blumenfeld, M, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, 'A systems approach to developing a new metro for megalopoleis', Institution of Civil Engineers. Proceedings. Transport, vol. 169, no. TR5, pp. 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.16.00018

Evans, R, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, 'A systems study of influential railway strategy documents', Institution of Civil Engineers. Proceedings. Transport, vol. 169, no. 5, pp. 272-282. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.16.00023

Hasegawa, D, Nicholson, G, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, 'Analysis of the robustness of terminal turnaround arrangements for railways', IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2015.0039

Umiliacchi, S, Nicholson, G, Zhao, N, Schmid, F & Roberts, C 2016, 'Delay management and energy consumption minimisation on a single-track railway', IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 50-57. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2015.0054

Akena, R, Schmid, F & Burrow, M 2016, 'Driving style for better fuel economy', Institution of Civil Engineers. Proceedings. Transport. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.15.00116

Conference contribution

Duan, H & Schmid, F 2019, Optimised Headway Distance Moving Block with Capacity Analysis. in 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2018., 8641609, 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2018, Singapore, Singapore, 12/12/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641609

Abdurrahman, UT, Jack, A & Schmid, F 2018, Effects of platform screen doors on the overall railway system. in 8th International Conference on Railway Engineering (ICRE 2018). Institution of Engineering and Technology, 8th International Conference on Railway Engineering, ICRE 2018, London, United Kingdom, 16/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2018.0053

Wemakor, W, Jack, A & Schmid, F 2018, Modelling the relationship(s) between safety and operational performance. in Proceedings of the 2018 Joint Rail Conference. 2018 Joint Rail Conference, JRC 2018, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Joint Rail Conference, 2018, Pittsburgh, United States, 18/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1115/JRC2018-6221

Blumenfeld, M, Schmid, F & Roberts, C 2017, A systems approach to developing future urban systems: creating a metro that fits the megalopolis. in The International Conference on Railway Engineering (ICRE) 2016. Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016 International Conference on Railway Engineering, ICRE 2016, Brussels, Belgium, 12/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2016.0519

Zolfaghari, MR, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, Application of system dynamics tools to model 24-hour metro systems: integration of system engineering and operation management. in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2016., 7588736, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 224-230, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 23/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2016.7588736

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