About Us

The Chair of Aviation Technology and Logistics teaches and conducts research in five key areas of aviation. A highly motivated team of scientific staff, bundled by PostDocs, addresses the areas "Airport Operations/Data Mining", "Airspace Management/Network Optimization", "Safety", "Trajectory Management/Flight Guidance" and "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones/Urban Air Mobility".

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Key Topics

Profile of the Chair

Next to providing education to traffic engineering students, the Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics also conducts DFG fundamental and applied research in different fields related to aviation.

Simulation Facilities

The chair’s extensive simulation infrastructure was developed and is used in the context of research. At the flight simulation laboratory, an A320 simulator is available for research and education. Next to that, a virtual tower test environment simulates airport supervision tasks. Furthermore, various ATM-Simulations have been developed.

Staff

Research assistants from various scientific fields work at the Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics. This diverse professional expertise allows us to deal with challenging problems in education and research in a versatile way. Our staff members are supported in their educational tasks by student assistants.

Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics

The Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics at the Institute of Logistics and Aviation (IfL) of our Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences offers targeted education to students who wish to become a graduate Traffic Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) with a focus on Air Traffic Technologies. Furthermore, the first semester of the academic year 2017/18 marks the start of the new master’s programme “Air Traffic and Logistic”. Regular guests from study programmes such as Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science and Economics are welcomed as well. Our courses cover the technological foundations of aircraft, their propulsion and their operational environment. Moreover, process-oriented knowledge in the fields of Airline Management, Flight and Airport Operations, Terminal Processes, Safety and Security as well as Environmental Impact is imparted to our students. The chair is an active contributor to DFG fundamental research projects and conducts applied research in the fields of Flightpath optimization, Process control at airports and Safety assessments in Air Traffic Control and Flight operations. As a member of the ASDA as well as the DLR@TU9, the chair has excellent connections to the European and national world of science.

Our team consists of graduates of various research fields and varying professional expertise. This broad composition enables us to work on a wide range of research topics while considering problems from different perspectives and discussing alternative solutions. Our ambition is to make the results of our research accessible to the professional world by participating in conferences and submitting articles to scientific journals. However, we also strive to provide cutting-edge education by including these results in our courses. We therefore also try to expand our educational offer by inviting speakers from the professional world to our lectures where possible.