Julia Gerlach
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Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Julia Gerlach
Research Associate
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Chair of Transport Ecology
Chair of Transport Ecology
Visiting address:
Potthoffbau, POT/ 7A Hettnerstraße 1
01069 Dresden
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Research Topics and Areas of Focus
- Impact Evaluation
- Environmental Justice and Mobility-Related Social Exclusion
- External Costs and Internalization
- Sustainability Assessment
- Supervision of term papers and theses
Research Projects
Current Research Projects
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Climate Check Infrastructure —An Assessment Tool for Municipal and Regional Transportation Projects
Project in collaboration with Ecoplan AG and Rosinak & Partner ZT. The project was commissioned by the professional associations FGSV, VSS, and FSV as a D-A-CH research project. 04/2025 – 02/2027
- VINK - Climate Study on Transportation: “Transportation Infrastructure Construction, Induced Traffic, and Climate Impacts,”November 2024–August 2025, commissioned by the Hessian Climate Advisory Board.
- InuM – Indicators of Sustainable Urban Mobility (Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators for Germany, SUMI-D); Project commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMDV), in collaboration with Rupprecht Consult, the Chair of Mobility System Planning at TU Dresden, the German Institute for Urban Studies (DIfU), and VDI-VDE-IT, 2022–2024.
- MOTUS – Sustainable Transportation Despite COVID-19, Climate Change, or Structural Change? Project in collaboration with the Chairs of Traffic Control Systems and Process Automation and of Automobile Engineering at TU Dresden, as well as the Chair of Bicycle Traffic and Local Mobility at the University of Kassel and the SME “Teralytics.” The project is funded by the BMVI as part of the mFUND innovation initiative, 11/2021–10/2024.
- MobilBericht II – Implementation and Consolidation Phase of the Funding Measure “Implementation of the Flagship Initiative ‘City of the Future’”;
Project in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin and the Berlin-Pankow District Administration. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the implementation of the “City of the Future” flagship initiative. 06/2021–05/2023 -
DZS Leipzig – Validation and evaluation of continuous vehicle counting stations in Leipzig. Commissioned by the City of Leipzig. 04/2021–03/2022.
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Impact of noise on mental health in humans, subproject: Acoustics Survey Unit, in collaboration with the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency, 2017–2021.
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Development of university curricula and a baseline study on urban mobility in Georgia; project commissioned by GIZ Tbilisi as part of the Mobility4Cities project, 2020–2022.
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MobilBericht – Mobility Reporting: A Tool for the Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Design of Urban Mobility;
Project in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin and the Berlin-Pankow District Administration. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the implementation of the flagship initiative “City of the Future.” 2017–2020. - Evaluation of Bicycle Traffic – Development of Guidelines for Municipalities; project as part of the National Bicycle Traffic Project (NRVP), TU Dresden, Chair of Transportation Ecology, 2016–2021.
- Multimodal Analysis of Sustainability Considerations in the Field of Transportation Infrastructure;
Project commissioned by the Federal Highway Research Institute, in collaboration with the Chair of Transport Ecology at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, 2017–2019. - Hoch-N: Sustainability at Universities: Develop – Network – Report; project commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in collaboration with the Chair of Business Administration, specifically Industrial Environmental Economics, 2016–2018.
- “NAMA II – Non-Motorized Transportation in Colombia”
Scope: Technical consulting on the development of an MRV concept for climate protection measures in the field of non-motorized transportation
Client: GIZ, 2016 -
“NAMA – Non-Motorized Transport in Colombia”
Scope: Technical consulting, development of evaluation approaches for bicycle traffic
Client: GIZ, 2015 -
“Development of Mobility Indicators for the National Sustainability Strategy”
Scope: Development of a proposed set of indicators for the mobility sector
Client: Federal Environment Agency, 2013–2014 -
“The True Costs of Automobility: External Costs of Cars—Overview of Existing Estimates in the EU-27”
Content: Estimation of the external costs of passenger car traffic in Europe
Client: The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, 2012–2013 -
“Comparison of Environmental Impacts and Travel Times of Various Modes of Transportation for Three Selected Vacation Trips”
Content: Conducting an emissions assessment
Client: Dresden Transportation Museum, 2013 -
“Concept for the Future Design of Transportation Structures in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (SAMO) District,” in collaboration with the Korff Agency for Regional Planning
Content: Development of an action plan
Client: Saxon Switzerland-Osterzgebirge District, 2008–2009 -
“New Management Tools in Public Administration”
Content: Development of a concept forCO2 management in the City of Dresden (carried out at the Chair of Industrial Environmental Economics)
Client: City of Dresden, 2007–2008
Publications
2023
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Traffic noise annoyance in the LIFE-adult study in Germany: Exposure-response relationships and a comparison to the WHO curves, 1 Jul 2023, In: Environmental research. 228, 115815Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Traffic-Related High Sleep Disturbance in the LIFE-Adult Cohort Study: A Comparison to the WHO Exposure-Response-Curves, Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20, 6, 4903Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Einfluss des Lärms auf psychische Erkrankungen des Menschen, 2023, Umweltbundesamt, 364 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Preprint/documentation/report > Project report (Final and progress reports)
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Leitfaden Nahmobilität: Nahobilitätskonzepte für die Mobilitätswende im Quartier. , 2023Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
2022
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Belästigung und Schlafgestörtheit durch Verkehrslärm: ein Vergleich mit den WHO-Expositions-Wirkungsfunktionen., Aug 2022, In: Das Gesundheitswesen. 84, 08/09, p. 811-812, 2 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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- Gerlach, J.: Ohne Rückblick kein Ausblick: Warum Evaluation ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Radverkehrsförderung ist. Vortrag auf der Fachtagung "Fahrradland Niedersachsen/Bremen 2023" 27.04.2023 in Emden.
- Gerlach, J.: Wie misst Berlin? Begleitung Kiezblock Komponistenviertel. Vortrag auf dem 4. Fachforum "Berliner Kiezblocks" 30.11.2022 in Berlin.
- Gerlach, J.: Lärm- & Luftschadstoffindikatoren für die Teilstudie 2. Methodik und ausgewählte Ergebnisse. Digitale Informationsveranstaltung zu Auswirkungen von Lärm auf die Psyche (Abschlussveranstaltung Forschungsprojekt Lärm & Psyche). 24.02.2022.
- Gerlach, J.: Mobilitätsberichterstattung. Ein Instrument zur nachhaltigen Gestaltung urbaner Mobilität. Vortrag auf dem Kongresse Umweltgerechtigkeit in Berlin - vom Konzept zur Praxis. 30.01.2020, Berlin.
- Gerlach, J.: Wissen was wirkt - Erfahrungen aus dem Forschungsprojekt RADeval. Vortrag auf dem Nationalen Radverkehrskongresse, 14.05.2019, Dresden.
- Gerlach, J.; Hübner, S.; Böhmer, T.: Impact Evaluation of Cycling Measures - exploring the state-of-practice in German Municipalities. Vortrag auf der International Cycling Conference, 19.09.2017, Mannheim
- Gerlach, J.; Richter, N.; Becker, U.: Mobility Indicators Put To Test - German Strategy For Sustainable Development Needs To Be Revised. Vortrag auf der Transport Research Arena, 19.04.2016, Warschau.
- Hanicke, A.; Gerlach, J.; Baldauf, R. (2016): Ermittlung nahräumlicher Erreichbarkeiten mit GIS – Methodik und Ergebnisse anhand des Fallbeispiels der Stadt Dresden. Konferenzbeitrag zu den 25. Verkehrswissenschaftlichen Tagen 2016, Dresden 17.03.2016.
- Gerlach, J.: The polluter pays? Soziale Unterschiede im Verkehrsverhalten. Vortrag bei der Veranstaltung "Zur praktischen Gestaltung der vor uns liegenden Verkehrswende: Welche Rolle spielen Preisinstrumente?" der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 14.11.2013, Berlin.
- Gerlach, J.: Analyse von Verteilungswirkung externer Kosten. Vortrag bei der Jahrestagung des Pegasus-Netzwerks, 12.10.2013, Frankfurt am Main.
- Friedemann, J.: Analyse von Verteilungswirkungen externer Effekte von Verkehr, Vortrag im Verkehrsplanerischen und Verkehrsökologischen Kolloquium, TU Dresden, 14.11.2007.
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Scharfe, Paula (2021): Wie können kommunale Radverkehrskonzepte evaluiert werden? Das Beispiel Dresden. Diplomarbeit an der Professur für Verkehrsökologie, TU Dresden (2021). In: Verkehrsökologische Schriftenreihe (14/2021). ISSN 2367-315X.
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Hartl, Richard (2021): Integration von Nachhaltigkeit in der Bundesverkehrswegeplanung. Diplomarbeit an der Professur für Verkehrsökologie, TU Dresden (2021). In: Verkehrsökologische Schriftenreihe (13/2021). ISSN 2367-315X
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Flamm, Leander (2016): Internalisierungsmaßnahmen für externe Kosten im Güterverkehr: Welche Chancen und Risiken könnten sich aus welchen Marktreaktionen ergeben? Diplomarbeit an der Professur für Verkehrsökologie, TU Dresden (2016), In: Verkehrsökologische Schriftenreihe (7/2016). ISSN 2367-315X.
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Huber, Kerstin (2016): Ermittlung von Mobilitätsbedürfnissen bei sozial benachteiligten Bevölkerungsgruppen. Masterarbeit an der Professur für Verkehrsökologie, TU Dresden (2016). In: Becker, U. / Gerlach, J. (Hrsg.) Verkehrsökologische Schriftenreihe (1/2016). ISSN 2367-315X.