Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd-Axel Ahrens

This picture shows Professor emeritus Gerd-Axel Ahrens. © IVST

Emeritus, Senior Professor (10/2015-09/2018)

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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd-Axel Ahrens

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Organization Name

Chair of Mobility System Planning

Chair of Mobility System Planning

Areas of Research
  • Integrated Mobility and Transport Development Planning
  • Mobility Research, Traffic Behaviour
  • Planning Processes, Organisation, Cooperation and Participation
Current Activities (Status 04/2023)
  • Advisory Board Research Campus „Mobility2Grid“, HightechStrategy of the Federal Government, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the EUREF-Campus of the TU Berlin
  • Advisory Board „Kooperatives Werkstattverfahren Güterbahnhof Köpenick“, Berlin
  • City of Leipzig: Transport (Development) Planning, Auditing and Consultations
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2018 Emeritus
2015–2018 Senior Professor, Institute of Transport Planning and Road Traffic, TU Dresden
2000–2015 University Professor, Head of Chair of Transport and Infrastructure Planning, TU Dresden
2003–2006 Dean of the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
1991–2000 Head of Division Integrated Transport Development (until 1992) and Head of Transport Department for the Senator of Building and Environment of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
1985–1991 Research Associate "Environment and Transport" at the Umweltbundesamt Berlin
1983–1985 Construction Trainee (Urban Engineering) for the State of Lower Saxony (2. State Examination)
1983 Obtaining the Doctorate Dr.-Ing., TU Braunschweig
1978–1983 Research Associate at the Institute of Urban Engineering, TU Braunschweig
1977–1978 Traffic Engineer at the Office of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steierwald, Vienna
1975–1976 Fulbright-Scholar at the Transportation Research Institute of the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, P.A., U.S.A
1970–1977 Studies of Civil Engineering, Field of Urban Engineering, Traffic and Transport Science and Transport Technology, TU Braunschweig
Recent Publications
  • AHRENS, G.-A. (2018): Verkehrsplanung. In: Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Hrsg.): Handwörterbuch der Stadt‐ und Raumentwicklung. Hannover
  • AHRENS, G.-A. (2017): Automatisiert, digitalisiert, vernetzt – Mit integrierten Konzepten nachhaltig in die Zukunft? In: DVWG aktuell, Ausgabe 40 – September 2017, S. 5-7
  • Beckmann, K.J., Holzapfel, H., Sammer, G., AHRENS, G.-A. et al. (2017):Elektromobilität: Macht der Wandel des Fahrzeugantriebs den Verkehr umweltfreundlich? - Stellungnahme der emeritierten Hochschullehrer Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik deutscher und österreichischer Universitäten Link
  • ÖPNV-Strategiekommission, kcw/ETC (2017): Abschlussbericht der Strategiekommission für einen leistungsfähigen ÖPNV/SPNV in Sachsen, Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr (SMWA)
  • AHRENS, G.-A., WITTWER, R., HUBRICH, S. (2017): Auch flexibles Carsharing nutzt dem ÖPNV! Mittelbare Effekte aus mehr Multimodalität und geringerem PKW-Besitz. In: Internationales Verkehrswesen, 69. Jahrgang, Heft 3, S. 48-51
Past long-term Committee Work
  • Scientific Advisory Board Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (until 2015)
  • Road and Transportation Research Association - FGSV (until 2015)
  • Scientific Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry of Transport (until 2014, Head 2013)
  • Speaker of the Scientific Advisory Board Trafic Development Plan Dresden 2025+ (until 2014)
  • German Society for Transport Science DVWG, (Head of Saxony until 2014)
  • Friedrich-List-Forum (Head and Managing Director until 2014)
  • Research Network „Transportation in New EU Member Countries, General Research Network for Harmonization and Integration“ (T-NEG) (Head and Managing Director until 2008)
  • Traffic Expert Commission to the German Council of Cities (Deutscher Städtetag) (Head until 2000)

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