NAMAV – Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality through Transport Automatisation

This picture shows a transformed street with automated vehicles and services.

Project Description
The starting point of the project Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality through Transport Automatisation (NaMAV) is the hypothesis that automated vehicles of the levels 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 utilization of possible opportunities as well as the minimization of risks of future traffic systems with a higher rate of automatization.

Project Goals
The project goals of NaMAV are…

to elaborate deployment scenarios for highly and fully automated vehicles (levels 4 and 5) on the example of the City of Leipzig,
to rate these scenarios in terms of their occurrence probability as well as their effects on the goals of strategic urban and traffic development planning, especially in terms of the formulated sustainability criteria,
to derive recommendations for specific steps for the preparation of implementing measures within chosen scenarios including the planning of milestones, communication and participation and
to evaluate the transferability of the findings and the established scenarios to other urban spaces and contexts and to formulate generalizable recommendations.

NaMAV Future Labs

Accompanying the project work, a total number of four NaMAV Future Labs will take place, where representatives of the project advisory board and other interested stakeholders meet to discuss selected topics:

NaMAV Future Lab for the elaboration of deployment scenarios (07 June 2021)
NaMAV Future Lab on the topic of „Low Traffic Zones for Leipzig 2050 in MATSim“ (21 September 2022)
NaMAV Future Lab on the topic of „Ridepooling Areas in Leipzig 2050“
(28 November 2022)
NaMAV Future Lab for the presentation of project results (09 April 2024)

MATSim Traffic Model Leipzig

The individual scenarios of future mobility developed in the project are modeled using the transport simulation software MATSim. The MATSim transport model of Leipzig will remain available on a public server structure at the end of the project and can be used free of charge. The City of Leipzig can include it in their mobility planning.

The Dashboard with preliminary analysis results of the deployment scenarios can be accessed here: Dashboard NaMAV
The GitHub Repository for the project is available here: GitHub Repository NaMAV

Project Results

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.

Within the NaMAV project, generalizable recommendations on sustainable urban mobility are established which also address other regions and cities beyond the specific application in Leipzig.

Further Weblinks

Project information on the webpage of the City of Leipzig
NaMAV Project website of the City of Leipzig (in German)
Project information on the webpage of TU Berlin, VSP
NaMAV Project website of TU Berlin (in German)
Future on Sustainable Mobility (BeNaMo)
BeNaMo website: NaMAV-Project (in German)
Funding measure "MobilitätsZukunftsLabor 2050" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Research for Sustainability (FONA) Website (in German)

Contact and Further Information
The research project "NaMAV – Sustainable Mobility and Urban Quality Through Transport Automatization" is part of the funding measure "MobilitätsZukunftsLabor 2050" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project consortium consists out of TUD Dresden University of Technology – Chair of Mobility System Planning, Technische Universität Berlin – Chair of Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics and the City of Leipzig, Office of Transportation and Public Works.