Hamed Mehranfar

Hamed Mehranfar

Infrastructure Asset Manager

SZU AG

Biography

I am an infrastructure asset manager with special focus on engineering structures and railways at Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn. I earned my Dr. Sc. ETH Zurich degree in 2024 for my research at the Chair of Infrastructure Management on the use of digitalization to improve railway asset management with a close collaboration with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

I also obtained a MSc. in railway transportation engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2019 with a focus on railway operations management, where i had the chance to work on a national project funded by Iranian National Railway Company (RAI) in order to increase the efficiency of mineral cargo transportation. Before starting my PhD, after graduation, I had a chance to experiance the indutry by working at RailPardaz Seir company for a year.

Although I am no longer actively involved in academic research, I am still passionate about new research topics and willing to collaborate as much as my time allows. My academic interests include The use of mathematical optimization to improve infrastructure management, the use of technologies and methods such as data analysis, learning models, large language models, and computer vision to provide better decision support in the railway context.

Interests
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Railway Systems
  • Interventions Planing
Education
  • Dr. Sc. ETH Zurich in Civil engineering, 2024

    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

 
 
 
 
 
SZU
Infrastructure Asset Manager
January 2025 – Present Zürich, Switzerland

Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring engineering structures, public assets as well as the railroad assets such as bridges and switches provide required level of service
  • Collaborating with internal and external experts to plan required preventive and corrective interventions
  • Developing strategies for inspection and maintain assets with close collaboration with internal and expertal experts
  • Analysing the lastest condition of assets according to the inspection resutls and deterioration of assets over time
  • Working with universities and consultants to exploit digitisation for improving railway asset management
  • Coordinating the project Asset Database
 
 
 
 
 
ETH Zürich
Doctoral Candidate | Scientific Assistant
September 2020 – December 2024 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

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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(2025). Enhancing Railway Track Intervention Planning: Accounting for Component Interactions and Evolving Failure Risks. Journal of Infrastructures.

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(2023). Automated early estimation of bridge interventions, possession windows and costs. Journal of Infrastructure Asset Management.

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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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Contact

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