The mobility of people and goods is a central basis of our modern society with increasingly global and diverse networked processes. It enables an efficient economy and is a valuable asset that must be preserved and developed. Mobility, especially with regard to road traffic, is currently confronted with global challenges that urgently require fundamental solutions. This includes aspects such as durability, safety, efficiency, ecology, costs or automation.

In the cCollaborative Research Center “Digital twin street - physical-informational mapping of the system for the street of the future”, which the German Research Foundation (DFG) has now approved, scientists from the TU Dresden and RWTH Aachen are pursuing a completely new approach: They develop and research a Spatially and temporally multidimensional virtual image - a reality model in space and time - made up of vehicle, tires and road surface (concrete and asphalt), taking into account the road pavements. The digital twin allows simulations based on a large number of data sources, large amounts of data and numerous analysis methods from statistical methods to machine learning (ML) approaches. This enables significantly better planning and more sustainability.

The DFG will initially fund the Collaborative Research Center for four years. On the part of the TU Dresden, the areas of construction and the environment, humanities and social sciences and engineering are involved with a total of eight institutes. The speaker is Prof. Michael Kaliske, Director of the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Structures at the TU Dresden. The cooperation partner RWTH Aachen is represented by Prof. Markus Oeser as deputy spokesman of the SFB/TRR 339.

Further information on the website of the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Structures at TU Dresden: https://tu-dresden.de/bu/bauingenieurwesen/sdt/forschung/sfb-339digitaler-zwilling-strasse

Contact:
Prof. Michael Kaliske
Speaker SFB/TRR 339
Tel. +49 351 463-34386