Railway Operation Research Centre - A Learning Factory for the Railway Sector

The railway operation research center Darmstadt (EBD) developed from a pure simulation center towards an interdisciplinary learning factory. The paper presents methodical concepts for the three main fields of its application - the student's education, the advanced education and the research on railway operation. Education is focus on role and business games. The participants can slip in the role of operators or dispatchers training the regular or disrupted operations. Research projects complement the needed technique and enable new didactical concepts. Moreover new technical concepts are developed and tested in the EBD before they are used in railway operation.