Project MOTUS started - pilot municipalities wanted!

How can a resilient and sustainable transport system be designed despite the challenges posed by pandemics, climate and structural change? The MOTUS research project is dedicated to this question. Over the next three years, it will investigate what measures municipalities can take to make their urban transport system sustainable and resilient even when disruptive events occur.

At the end of the project, a simulation platform will exist that enables municipal decision-makers to play out various disruptive scenarios for their transport system and derive suitable countermeasures.

MOTUS is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) as part of the mFUND innovation initiative with a total of around 800,000 euros.

Pilot municipalities wanted: applications now opened!

Since MOTUS is explicitly aimed at municipal decision-makers, the simulation platform shall be developed together with two selected pilot municipalities which benefit directly from the research results. If you are interested in becoming a "pilot municipality" you may contact the MOTUS consortium directly. Preference is given to municipalities from the lignite mining areas with an urban transport system and the willingness to make transport data available for research purposes.