About evias

We combine cost-effectiveness, technology, and sustainability in the railway industry.

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Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. Matthias Landgraf 

Driving force behind evias

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Matthias Landgraf is CEO and founder of evias and private lecturer at Graz University of Technology as well as University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten. He is a member of the scientific steering group of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, a body of the European Union.

Excerpt of relevant milestones:

From 2011 to 2023, he was responsible for project management, research, and teaching at the Graz University of Technology, Institute of Railway Engineering and Transport Economics. In addition, he expanded his commercial expertise during his three-year tenure as authorized officer at the engineering firm BM Ing. Landgraf GmbH.
  • Founding evias rail consulting 12/2022
  • Member of Scientific Steering Group Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking since 11/2023
  • Habilitation (venia docendi) at Graz University of Technology, 09/2022
  • Research stays at UC Berkeley, CA (2019) and ETH Zürich, CH (2021)
  • PhD at Graz University of Technology with honours, 11/2016. The methods developed have since been implemented at various European railway infrastructure managers such as ÖBB (Austria), SBB (Switzerland), ProRail (Netherlands) and BaneNor (Norway).

  • Best Paper Awards at World Congress of Railway Research (WCRR), 2019 in Tokyo and at Conference of International Heavy Haul Association (IHHA), 2017 in Kapstadt
  • Forschungspreis 2017 of FSV (The Austrian Research Association for Roads, Railways and Transport) and VCÖ Mobilitätspreis 2019 as part of consortium „Hytrail“

  • Lead Author within 2nd Austrian Assessment Report Climate Change.
  • 90+ international presentations and 60+ publications in the form of scientific papers, conference papers, book chapters and books

Our team

Foto von Matthias Landgraf, CEO von evias
Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. 

Matthias Landgraf

CEO & Gründer

Foto von Matthias Landgraf, CEO von evias
Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. 

Matthias Landgraf

CEO & Gründer

Foto von Matthias Landgraf, CEO von evias
Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. 

Matthias Landgraf

CEO & Gründer

Foto von Matthias Landgraf, CEO von evias
Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. 

Matthias Landgraf

CEO & Gründer

Shaping the future together

Core Values

Shaping the future together

Shaping a sustainable future of railways together.

As Rail Consulting company from Austria we provide support with data-based optimization of processes in terms of efficiency, cost-effectiveness and sustainability in the rail industry.