Hamed Mehranfar

Hamed Mehranfar

Doctoral candidate/ Scientific assistant

ETH Zürich

Biography

I am a doctoral candidate/ scientific assistant in the field of infrastructure management in the chair of Infrastructure Management at ETH Zürich. I have graduated with an MSc. in railway transportation engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran with a focus on railway operations management in 2019. Before joining the Chair of Infrastructure Management, I collected experience in applications of operations research in the railway industry during the Master’s program in Transportation Systems and Logistics (TSL) research lab where I had the chance to work on a national-wise project funded by Iranian National Railway Company (RAI) in order to increase the efficiency of mineral cargo transportation. Also, after graduation, I worked in RailPardaz Seir company. Now, the focus of my research is to determining optimal intervention program for the railway networks with a close collaboration with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

Interests
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Railway Systems
  • Interventions Planing
Education
  • Dr. Sc. ETH Zurich in Civil engineering, 2020 - present

    ETH Zürich

  • MSc. in Railway transportation engineering, 2019

    Iran university of science and technology

  • BSc. in Industrial engineering, 2015

    Ferdowsi university of Mashhad

Skills

Infrastructure Management
Project Management
Intervention Planning
Team Work
Mathematical Modelling
Statistical Analysis
Lean Management

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
ETH Zürich
Doctoral Candidate | Scientific Assistant
September 2020 – Present Zürich, Switzerland

Responsibilities:

  • Collaboration with SBB on project STABILITY
  • Supervising master’s and bachelor’s theses
  • Organising and charing sessions in international conferences
  • Assisting in teaching courses (Infrastructure Management I and III)
  • Estimating railway assets intervention requirements using Stochastic modelling
  • Assessing failure risks of railway assets using condition-dependent fault trees
  • Optimal clustering of interventions using Mathematical optimisation
 
 
 
 
 
Rail Pardaz Seir
Operation, Mobility, and Productivity Engineer
July 2019 – July 2020 Tehran, Iran

Responsibilities include:

  • Preparing daily reports on status of cargo fleets
  • Collaborating on project Smart Fleet Allocation
  • Simulating the freight operations
  • Failure analysis of cargo fleets
 
 
 
 
 
Iran University of Science and Technology
Research Assistant
October 2016 – July 2019 Tehran, Iran

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborating with RAI on project Cargo for Rail
  • Evaluating management policies using discrete event simulation of freight operations
  • Assessing safety using Statistical modelling
  • Assessing sustainability of Oil’s supply chain using mathematical optimisation
 
 
 
 
 
Choob Sang
Industrial Engineer
October 2016 – October 2016 Mashhad, Iran

Responsibilities:

  • Evalvating the efficiency of the production line as a freelancer
 
 
 
 
 
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Industrial Engineer
January 2016 – June 2016 Mashhad, Iran

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborating with Electrical engineering department on conducting a feasibility study for producing an advanced welding machine production line as a freelancer
  • Conducting cost-benefit analyses
 
 
 
 
 
Mashhad Centeral Library
Intern
Mashhad Centeral Library
September 2015 – October 2015 Mashhad, Iran

Responsibilities:

  • Mapping the processes
 
 
 
 
 
Shahr-e-babana
Intern
June 2014 – August 2014 Mashhad, Iran

Responsibilities:

  • Mapping the processes of operation line
  • Conducting a time-study analysis to evaluate the performance of the production line

Talks

Projects

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STABILITY
Maintaining train schedule (STABILITY) and managing time table reserves via digitalized railway intervention planning.
Smart Fleet Allocation
Facilitating the decision making for allocation of open top cargo wagons across the railway network aiming at improving the availability and profitability.
Cargo for Rail
Providing a decision aiding tool for evaluating different operation policies to improve the efficiency of heavy haul transportation

Recent Publications

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(2023). Benders decomposition to accelerate determination of optimal railway intervention programmes. Journal of Infrastructure Asset Management.

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(2023). Estimation of bridge component condition states with varying data availability. In IALCCE.

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(2021). Improving operational efficiency of iron ore logistics by rail using simulation. Simulation.

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Contact

Should you wish to contact me, please do not hesitate to reach out.

  • hmehranfar[at]ethz.ch
  • +41 44 633 20 08
  • HIL, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich, Swizterland
  • Enter HIL Building and take the stairs or lift to Office G32.2 on G Floor
  • Monday to Friday 08:00-10:00 AM & 03:00-05:00 PM