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

Professor Felix Schmid

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 麻豆精选
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 麻豆精选, 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 麻豆精选

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, '', Safety and Reliability, vol. 42, no. 2-3, pp. 60-100.

Blumenfeld, M, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2021, '', Future Transportation, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 154-168.

Moore, T, Schmid, F & Tricoli, P 2021, '', IET Electrical Systems in Transportation.

Liu, J, Schmid, F, Zheng, W & Zhu, J 2019, '', Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 189, pp. 218-231.

Xue, X, Robinson, M, Schmid, F & Smith, R 2018, '', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, vol. 232, no. 2, pp. 461-470.

Wemakor, W, Jack, A & Schmid, F 2017, '', International Journal of Transport Development and Integration, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 98-114.

Hasegawa, D, Nicholson, G, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, '', IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 41-49.

Blumenfeld, M, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, '', Institution of Civil Engineers. Proceedings. Transport, vol. 169, no. TR5, pp. 249-261.

Evans, R, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, '', Institution of Civil Engineers. Proceedings. Transport, vol. 169, no. 5, pp. 272-282.

Conference contribution

Duan, H & Schmid, F 2019, . in 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)., 8641609, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2018, Singapore, Singapore, 12/12/18.

Abdurrahman, UT, Jack, A & Schmid, F 2018, . 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.

Wemakor, W, Jack, A & Schmid, F 2018, . 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.

Blumenfeld, M, Schmid, F & Roberts, C 2017, . 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.

Blumenfeld, M, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, . in AK Parlikad, JM Schooling, K Soga, RJ Mair & Y Jin (eds), Transforming the Future of Infrastructure through Smarter Information - Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction, ICSIC 2016. Transforming the Future of Infrastructure through Smarter Information - Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction, ICSIC 2016, ICE Publishing Company, pp. 735-740, 2016 International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction, ICSIC 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 27/06/16.

Zolfaghari, MR, Roberts, C & Schmid, F 2016, . 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.