Intermodal analysis of sustainability examination regarding traffic and transportation infrastructure
Within this project, we are working together with the Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft to develop a system for sustainability assessments applicable to all modes of transportation. This scheme will enable both a more sustainable infrastructure and a purposeful development of traffic flow and volume by taking into account holistic aspects. The system ought to increase acceptance of large-scale projects among the general populace and cover the area of roadways, railways, waterways and airports.
In its area of application, the system will support federal transportation planning, more precisely the Plan for Federal Traffic Routes (BVWP), in making decisions based on economical, ecological and social criteria as well as an early life-cycle analysis.
During the course of the project, assessment criteria for built transport infrastructure will be developed. In addition, relevant reference values will be appraised, and a calculation and rating methodology for economical, ecological, social, technical and functional aspects will be established.
In this sense, 'sustainability' encompasses ecological aspects as well as economic and social ones. A sustainable transportation system efficiently enables individuals, businesses and society as a whole to fulfil its basic needs. In doing so, it ensures security, human health, the functioning of ecosystems, intra- and intergenerational fairness, and affordability as long as in line with the framework created by internalising external costs. It leaves a choice between different modes of transport, supports a balanced regional development, limits emissions and waste to the amount determined by earth's absorption capacity, and employs renewable resources only to the extend that they regenerate. The impact on land usage and noise development are to be reduced to a minimum.
FINANCING
The project is funded by the German Federal Road Research Institute (BASt).
LEADERSHIP
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Hochschule Karlsruhe: Prof. Dr. Jochen Eckart
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TU Dresden: Prof. Dr. Udo Becker
RESEARCHERS
- Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Julia Gerlach
TERM
- 11/2017 to 03/2019