Current Projects
Here is a brief overview of the current projects at the Chair, click for more details:
- Demand for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
- KONZERT: Konzertiertes Parkraummanagement als Baustein einer nachhaltigen Campusmobilität
- SML - Smart Mobility Lab in Hoyerswerda | Subproject Reallabor
- SivaS - Safety of Networked and Automated Road Traffic
- FoPS - Determination of Pedestrian Traffic Volumes from Short-Term Counts and Environmental Data
- 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?
- 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
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NaMAV - Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality through Transport Automatisation
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Demand for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) |
Sponsor | German Research Foundation (DFG) |
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This project is one PhD project in the Research Training Group (RTG) “AirMetro Research Training Group 2947” at TU Dresden, which investigates the technological and operational integration of highly automated air transport in urban areas. Cooperation partners are listed at AirMetro project webpage. |
Duration | First cohort: 5/2024 – 4/2028 |
Motivation |
Thanks to rapid technological development, travel via Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft such as air taxis could increasingly be considered a technologically realistic option for future passenger mobility . Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) offers several possible advantages, including low-congestion travel routes and higher speed than for the alternative modes on road and rail. However, to fully prepare for the emergence of AAM, methods for estimating future demand for this new mode of transportation need to be developed. |
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Website | AirMetro Research Training Group 2947 at TU Dresden |
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Project name | KONZERT: Konzertiertes Parkraummanagement als Baustein einer nachhaltigen Campusmobilität |
Sponsor |
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) |
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Duration | 01/2024 to 06/2025 |
Goals |
In the KONZERT funding project, the aforementioned stakeholders are working together to implement responsible car park management as a core component of sustainable mobility development at the university location. The core of the KONZERT project is to answer three central scientific research questions:
The results of the research project should not only make a contribution to the scientific discourse on corporate mobility management, but also provide concrete recommendations for action for universities and comparable institutions. Particular attention will be paid to the practical relevance and transferability of the findings to other educational institutions and organisations. |
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Implementation of core elements of innovative corporate mobility management
Institution of innovative work and process structures
Process and impact evaluation
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Links | KONZERT Project page |
Contact Person(s) | PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Rico Wittwer +49 351 463-34232 |
Project Name | SML - Smart Mobility Lab in Hoyerswerda | Subproject Reallabor |
Client | Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMDV) |
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In addition, the following chairs at Dresden University of Technology are involved in the overall SML project: Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics (IFL), Chair of Agricultural Systems and Technology (AST), Chair of Information Technology for Traffic Systems (ITVS), Chair of Networked Systems Modeling (NSM), Chair of Software Technology (ST), Chair of Traffic Process Automation (VPA) |
Duration | 4/2023 – 12/2026 |
Goals | The urban area of Hoyerswerda will be equipped with technology for traffic monitoring. This will enable field tests on road safety and traffic behaviour to be carried out in public road traffic. |
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A key area of work is the further improvement and analysis of methods for assessing the criticality of interactions in road traffic, known as surrogate safety measures (SSMs). These can provide information about the road safety of a traffic infrastructure so that in future adjustments can be made to the traffic system to improve road safety before traffic accidents occur. Furthermore, new methods for recording and analysing traffic behaviour will be used. |
Website | Smart Mobility Lab |
Contact Person(s) |
Prof. Regine Gerike |
Project Name | SivaS - Safety of Networked and Automated Road Traffic |
Client | Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMDV) |
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Duration | 4/2023 – 12/2024 |
Goals | There are currently no Europe-wide investigation and evaluation criteria for the safety assessment of automated driving functions. In preparation for the development of these criteria, the aim of the project is to develop the necessary methods and procedures. In the future, these will enable specific traffic monitoring as a data source for the continuous development of the test and evaluation criteria to cope with the expected changes in road use. In addition, the city of Hoyerswerda should benefit from the improved data for traffic planning obtained by the planned open traffic monitoring system. |
Content | The central area of work is the further development of methods for collecting and simulating traffic data. This includes methods of stationary traffic observation (permanently installed camera systems, drone recordings), mobile traffic observation (naturalistic driving data) and a simulation of selected traffic situations in a driving simulator. A standardised data structure and processing chain will be created to transfer all data sources to a central database. Citizens will be involved through different formats. |
Website | mFUND - Project |
Contact Person(s) | Dipl.-Ing. Armin Kollascheck +49 (0)351 463-36501 |
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FoPS - Determination of Pedestrian Traffic Volumes from Short-Term Counts and Environmental Data |
Client | Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) |
Cooperation Partner(s) |
platomo GmbH |
Duration | 04/2023 to 07/2025 |
Goals |
The aim of the project is to derive extrapolation factors that can be used to calculate daily volumes (e.g. for traffic planning or research projects) from short-term counts (cross-sectional counts). The project will also examine – and if possible develop a methodology – to improve the extrapolation by including environmental data (e.g. location of the counting point, extent of development and type of use in the surrounding area). These results should ultimately enable the inclusion of pedestrian traffic volumes in municipal planning projects and in research projects with lower personnel and budget. Furthermore, they should be incorporated into the regulations of the Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) – e.g. the recommendations for traffic surveys (EVE). |
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Data on travel volume, often in the form of cross-sectional counts, is a central component of planning processes; it is used to dimension traffic facilities and to weigh up the interests of the different user groups of the traffic zone. Research projects and road safety work also require data on the travel volume of the various traffic modes, e.g. for evaluating measures or as exposure variables in the assessment of road safety (calculation of accident rates, etc.). While this data is generally widely available for motor vehicle traffic (from automatic permanent counting stations supplemented by a large number of coordinated manual short-term counts) and is increasingly being taken into account for bicycle traffic, e.g. through permanent counting stations and smartphone-based surveys, there are no established methods for pedestrian traffic other than manual traffic counts. For example, it is difficult to motivate pedestrians (unlike cyclists) to actively track their trips, and mobile phone data collected automatically via radio cells can usually only be used for longer trips or vehicle traffic due to the coarse spatial resolution of this data. Due to the high personnel and therefore financial costs involved in manual counting, data on pedestrian traffic volumes has therefore only rarely been collected to date. |
Website | Website: Fops |
Contact |
Dipl.-Ing. Hendrik Görner +49 (0)351 463-36503 |
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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. |
Contents |
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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Project Name |
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 |
Goals |
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. |
Links |
Project on ministry website |
Contact Person(s) |
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 |
Duration |
11/2021 to 02/2024 |
Goals |
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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TEMPUS (Test Field Munich: Pilot Test Urban Automated Road Traffic) Sub-project "Traffic Culture |
Sponsor | Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) |
Cooperation Partner(s) |
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. |
Links |
Project on the pages of the Chair of Traffic Psychology |
Contact Person(s) |
Dipl.-Ing. Martin Bärwolff |
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European Union – Erasmus+ : Capacity Building in Higher Education |
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Duration | 01/2021 to 12/2024 |
Goals |
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 | 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 |
Goals |
The goal of the NaMAV project are:
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Contents |
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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