Current Projects
Here is a brief overview of the current projects at the Chair, click for more details:
- OpenTrafficCam_live (Open Source Framework for Video Based, Automateted Collection and Analysis of Traffic Data)
- The Infrastructure-Safety-Improvement-Potential - An adequate road safety indicator for road infrastructure?
- Road safety analysis of turbo roundabouts in Germany
- Urban accidents between pedestrians and cyclists
- TEMPUS (Test Field Munich: Pilot Test Urban Automated Road Traffic)
- LBS2ITS: Curricula Enrichment delivered through the Application of Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems / LBS2ITS
- Kompass – Development and Change Processes of Everyday Mobility in Regional Future Labs
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NaMAV - Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality through Transport Automatisation
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FIS - Research Information Systems (FIS) for mobility and traffic - LOS 2 und LOS 6
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German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) |
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Duration | 10/2022 – 10/2024 |
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A set of urban mobility indicators to enable standardized assessment of mobility systems across European cities has previously been developed within the EU project “Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators” – SUMI (2017-2020). In the current project, these indicators will be reviewed and adapted to the German context. |
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Against this background, we are creating a comprehensive overview of the objectives and indicator definitions used in strategic transport planning in Germany, analyzing the existing European SUMI indicator set, identifying the need for change, and, with the involvement of municipalities and other relevant stakeholders, developing additional context-specific German sustainable mobility indicators. |
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Municipal Survey on Mobility |
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OpenTrafficCam_live (Open Source Framework for Video Based, Automateted Collection and Analysis of Traffic Data) |
Sponsor | Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) |
Cooperation Partner(s) | platomo GmbH Chair of Photogrammetry (TU Dresden) |
Duration | 01/2022 to 12/2024 |
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Automated object recognition is now standard in many economic sectors, also due to the rapid development of computer technology and machine vision. Road traffic, on the other hand, is often surveyed manually with great effort, which is why suitable data bases are sometimes lacking for research and planning. In a preliminary study, the development of a prototype of the OpenTrafficCam showed that powerful and freely available algorithms can also be made available for traffic experts. The goal is to further develop tools for data protection-compliant, automated recording and analysis of road traffic movements to market maturity. A new multi-camera system and updated AI algorithms will improve the detection of all vehicle classes as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic, enabling a variety of common traffic analyses. |
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In the project software and hardware of the system developed in the previous feasibility study are optimised, data protection concepts are developed, the open-source camera system is modularised and made online-capable, and image data sets are annotated, with which own AI models are trained, implemented and published. In cooperation with traffic software developers, engineering consultancies, cities and federal institutions, OpenTrafficCam is being tailored to practical applications in the transport sector. |
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Project on ministry website |
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Dipl.-Ing. Martin Bärwolff |
Project name | Design of transport networks in built-up areas |
Client | Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) |
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Duration | 09/2021 to 05/2024 |
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The goal of the project is the development of a consistent and transferable method for designing transport networks within built-up areas for cars, road-based PT, cyclists, and pedestrians, which integrates the requirements of network design and road space planning. |
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The first step is a literature analysis to outline the national and international status of road network design, based on which the requirements of urban transport networks are systemized. To enable statements on the possibilities and limitations of the current ‘Guidelines for Integrated Network Design’ (RIN) method, the RIN method is to be applied to urban transport networks and the results are to be discussed with planners. The analysis of the application of RIN then is the basis for developing a suitable method for designing transport networks in built-up areas. Herein, a mode-specific and a mode-comprehensive approach are combined. The results are to be adapted for the utilization in the rulebook of the Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV), to demonstrate options for planners and to give indications on the functional structure and on the design options of network sections in built-up areas. |
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Project name | Safety and possible applications of Protected Intersections |
Client | Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) |
Cooperation Partner(s) | Mobycon |
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11/2021 to 02/2024 |
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The goal of this research project is to identify the design characteristics of Protected Intersections, to analyse their impact on traffic safety, perceived safety and the behaviour at Protected Intersections and to compare them to conventional intersections. From this, recommendations can be derived on safe design and operational conditions, which will contribute to the technical rulebook. |
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As a first step, international findings and rulebooks are analysed and design characteristics of Protected Intersections are identified. Furthermore, Protected Intersections in the Netherlands are examined and compared with conventional intersections in the Netherlands as well as with intersections in Germany which share certain design characteristics with Protected Intersections. The focus of this examination is placed on cyclists, while also including the needs of other road users (pedestrians, drivers, service operators, etc.). |
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Project Name | The Infrastructure-Safety-Improvement-Potential - An adequate road safety indicator for road infrastructure? |
Client | Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) |
Cooperation Partner(s) | PTV Transport Consult GmbH |
Duration | 06/2021 to 04/2023 |
Goals | The aim of this research project is to develop a procedure for monitoring the development of road safety in addition to accident and casualty statistics. The main focus is on what a survey concept for such a procedure could look like. Parallel to this, further application possibilities for the use of the SPI concept are to be examined. |
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In the project, a database of safety-relevant traffic, infrastructure and operational characteristics of the road network that can be used as safety indicators will be created. Through interviews and workshops with experts, but also by analysing extensive data on known safety-relevant features of road infrastructure and operation from previous research projects, one or more safety indicators will be selected for a Germany-wide safety monitoring. These will also serve to develop a methodology for network segmentation, sampling and aggregation into a higher-level safety indicator. Finally, the developed concept will be tested on a part of the German road network. |
Contact Person(s) | Dipl.-Ing. Martin Bärwolff +49 (0)351 463 366 61 Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Medicus +49 (0)351 463 366 17 |
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Client | Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) |
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Chair of Transportation - Planning and Management at Ruhr-University Bochum |
Duration | 07/2021 to 07/2023 |
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The aim of this research project is to analyse infrastructural and operational influences on road safety and the perception of safety at turbo roundabouts and to derive recommendations for safe design and traffic control that will be incorporated into the technical regulations. To this end, significantly more case studies of this relatively new type of intersection are to be investigated than was possible in previous studies. One focus will be on the safety of level crossings for non-motorised road users. Comparative evaluations with other types of intersections will also be carried out. |
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In order to answer the questions, existing findings from Germany and abroad will be evaluated, the majority of existing turbo roundabouts in Germany will be comprehensively documented and analysed with regard to the occurrence of accidents. In addition, in-depth behavioural and conflict analyses will be conducted over longer periods of time at selected turbo roundabouts, as well as a survey of road users. |
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TEMPUS (Test Field Munich: Pilot Test Urban Automated Road Traffic) Sub-project "Traffic Culture |
Sponsor | Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) |
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City of Munich |
Duration | 01/2021 to 06/2023 |
Goals | In the near future, vehicles will also be able to drive automatically in metropolitan areas and cities. In TEMPUS, the traffic effects of automated vehicles on performance and safety and the acceptance of other non-motorised road users are being investigated on the basis of extensive driving tests in the real Munich road network. The research field "Quality and Safety in Road Traffic" of the Chair of Integrated Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering is particularly involved in researching the interaction between non-motorised road users and automated/networked vehicles. |
Contents | In this sub-project, the communication and interaction processes in urban mixed traffic between automated vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRU), such as pedestrians and cyclists, are analysed with regard to objective and subjective traffic safety and traffic quality. |
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Project on the pages of the Chair of Traffic Psychology |
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Dipl.-Ing. Martin Bärwolff |
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European Union – Erasmus+ : Capacity Building in Higher Education |
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Duration | 01/2021 to 01/2024 |
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Sri Lanka faces many transportation challenges. Constraints such as timely access to modern technology and the lack of appropriately trained personnel have contributed to increasing social, economic and environmental concerns around road safety, pollution and transport inefficiencies. The project will address these issues through enrichment of the university curricula. Specifically, the integration of Location-based Services (LBS) into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). |
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LBS deliver information based on the location of objects. Smart transportation is therefore an ideal LBS application since it is based on locating people (e.g. using smartphones) and objects (e.g. cars, trains, etc.). As LBS evolve rapidly, there is an increasing need to train the next generation of skilled professionals who can leverage these new capabilities. This is important for Sri Lanka, where population growth and resource constraints demand the urgent use of emerging technologies to secure the safety and sustainability of their society. This level of education is in its infancy and cannot rapidly deliver the knowledge inputs required to change transport management decision-making. LBS2ITS is based on a consortium of three EU and four Sri Lankan Universities. It will build a fully immersive and integrated teaching and learning experience. The outcome will be a digital learning environment supporting synthetic and real-world learning experiences encouraging self-paced learning modules for both teacher and students. It will contain digital resource kits for interaction with modern equipment, continuous assessment and two-way feedback. Webinars and virtual experiences will underpin real-world Problem-based Learning (PBL) scenarios. A key novelty will be inclusion of industry representatives and external experts in the advisory groups. These will support our dissemination and quality control initiatives, the relevance of the PBL and student learning outcomes. Mentorship and a focus on cultural awareness, gender equity and social parity will govern our principles for curricula enrichment. |
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Project name | Kompass – Entwicklungs- und Veränderungsprozesse der Alltagsmobilität in regionalen Zukunftslaboren |
Sponsor | Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
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Duration | 01/2021 to 12/2023 |
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The goals of the Kompass project are to develop evidence-based options for sustainable mobility by using a unique MiD/SrV database which has for the first time been harmonized and completed with external variables, in order to achieve better availability of mobility especially for economically marginalized groups. The following results are expected:
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Changing the transport system is something that is discussed a lot, with hopes of achieving sustainable everyday traffic. However, the debate often gets lost in partial solutions or settles on single elements like cycling, car sharing or new types of mobility. A lot of the time, already available suitable data is misregarded or not processed in an integral and practice-oriented way. Additionally, mobility is too often viewed as detached from its causes. Also, the current situation with the pandemic shows how events that break with trends have an enormous effect on the mobility behaviour in people's everyday lives, which can also have long-term effects. These are the deficits which are addressed within the Kompass project, it also enables an extensive analysis and brings research and practice closer together. The central research question is about the strategic orientation of mobility measures in regional-specific future labs for selected target groups, which in data analyses have proven to be especially promising in terms of their potential for behavioural changes, or are especially relevant because of their group size or are believed to be especially vulnerable in terms of potential exclusion from mobility. The TU Dresden is the institution responsable for Mobility in Cities - SrV and infas as well as it is the three-time contractor for Mobility in Germany (MiD) and therefore it has extensive methodical and factual knowledge on the data stocks. These are to be longitudinally re-harmonised, collected and evaluated. Based on this, a content analysis will provide a time series, data on environmental factors and it will be the starting point for different scenarios and recommendations for action. This approach is expanded with laboratory-specific impact models which include traffic-external impact factors and thus make visible which changes in transport are supply-induced and which ones are influenced by other factors. The results are to be reflected and further developed in future labs with two practice partners. The practice partners are the Rhine/Main Regional Transport Association (RMV) with the urban space Frankfurt/Rhine-Main and the Bavarian Ministry of Housing, Building and Transport. |
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Contact Person(s) | PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Rico Wittwer +49 351 463-34232 |
Project Name | NaMAV - Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality through Transport Automatisation |
Sponsor | Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
Cooperation Partner(s) | TU Berlin, Chair of Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics; City of Leipzig, Office of Transportation and Public Works |
Duration | 11/2020 to 04/2024 |
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The goal of the NaMAV project are:
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The starting point of the project Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality through Transport Automatisation (NaMAV) is the hypothesis that automated vehicles of the leves four and five will become present in urban space, that they come with considerable opportunities as well as risks and that urban and transport planning should prepare for such scenarios of transport automatization and actively shape them. The NaMAV project works with the City of Leipzig as an active practice partner to develop concepts for an anticipatory utilisation of possible opportunities as well as the minimisation of risks of future traffic systems with a higher rate of automatization. In order to reach these goals, NaMAV develops deployment scenarios for highly and fully automated vehicles on the example of the city of Leipzig. The effects of selected scenarios are then modelled with the transport simulation software MATSim (TU Berlin) and evaluated on their effects on sustainable mobility. Hence, recommendations for the City of Leipzig and other local authorities are derived and finally, the findings are used to formulate generalisable recommendations on how to transfer the findings to other cities and municipalities in Germany. As a result of the project, customized deployment scenarios of automatized traffic are made available to the City of Leipzig; these will be evaluated on their effect on promoting sustainable urban mobility in the target year 2050. Specific steps and recommendations on the implementation will be derived. The MATSim traffic model of the City of Leipzig as well as the model configurations and adaptations for the use of autonomous vehicles will be made available on a public server after the project so that they can be used and further developed for free by the city of Leipzig and others. Within the NaMAV project, generalisable recommendations on sustainable urban mobility are established which will be deployed in Leipzig; additionally they will also help facilitate the acces to mobility, reduce motorised traffic and mitigate negative effects on the environment. |
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NaMAV Project Page |
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FIS - Research Information Systems (FIS) for mobility and traffic - LOS 2 und LOS 6 |
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Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) |
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01/2016 bis 12/2018 (optional 2019) |
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The Research Information System (FIS) for Mobility and Transport is a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) to establish an internet-based knowledge platform. Within the scope of the project phase 01/2016 to 12/2018 the supervised topics were maintained and processed in terms of content. In particular, scientific publications were researched, compiled and synthesized with regard to their political relevance. If required, the FIS topics can be supplemented by optional assignments with additional content in the form of new knowledge maps. During the project period the topics of LOS 2 and LOS 6 are dealt with. These cover the areas "Passenger Transport" and "Integrated Mobility Supply in Urban and Regional Areas". |
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