KIVI Department of Traffic and Transport invites you to three lectures on the remodelling of Amsterdam Central Station. We approach it from a traffic engineering perspective. Speakers from Prorail, BAM and Dura Vermeer will explain the renovations enabling the development of passenger traffic and the impact of the renovations on rail traffic and the (traffic) environment.

Built, expanded, rebuilt, ... Amsterdam Centraal has a long history. Built on islands in the IJ, later expanded with platforms and tracks on the north side (water side) of the then existing station. Under those new tracks came space for handling freight traffic. The extension was built as a railway viaduct: the IJ Viaduct.

The construction of the viaduct is now in need of "life-extending maintenance". Moreover, passenger traffic has increased and rail services have changed. Whereas in the 1990s the "three-train system" was the basis for platforms, tracks and switches, it is now "trackless running" or PHS. Maintenance and replacement is also needed on the east side of the station. Four steel and one concrete railway bridge are being replaced. But now the station is no longer on the outskirts of the city with construction space as in the attached photo, but in the middle of the city and on top of important urban connections. Before the works, Amsterdam is no longer worried about the view of the IJ (as it was during construction) but about the traffic flow around the station for cyclists, cars, trams, buses and shipping.

Project managers from Prorail, BAM and Dura Vermeer will explain how, in the middle of the city and between the rail, shipping and urban road and tram traffic, they are working on an Amsterdam Central Station that can take it again for a while.

Register via the KIVI website.

Admission: members € 10, students € 10, non-members € 20

Max 35 people in order of registration. Bring identification for access to the venue.

Route description PHS Amsterdam Centraal project room