Madlen Ringhand

Since 12/2018
Research fellow at TU Dresden, Chair of Traffic and Transportation Psychology

07/2014 to 11/2018
Ph.D. at TU Braunschweig „Factors influencing drivers' urban route choice“  phD thesis in library of TU Braunschweig phD thesis on ResearchGate

(05/2017 to 06/2018 in parental leave)

05/2014 to 04/2017
Research assistant at TU Braunschweig, Department of Engineering and Traffic Psychology (DFG-Research Training Group „SocialCars – cooperative (de-)central traffic management“) SocialCars

10/2008 to 03/2014
Study of psychology (Diploma) at TU Dresden
(diploma thesis: „Influence of collision warning systems on reaction in critical situations - examination in field study“)

Research interests:

• Technology for people: driving behaviour of manual and automated driving
• Sustainable transport and multimodal transport
• Strategies of traffic management

Current projects:

• AutoDrive - https://www.ecsel.eu/projects/autodrive
  • AutoDrive will provide fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational integrated electronic components, Electrical/Electronic (E/E) architectures as well as (deeply) embedded software systems for highly and fully automated driving to make future mobility safer, more efficient, affordable, and end-user acceptable.
• third-party funded research

Journals (peer-review)

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2019). Faster or slower? Valence framing of car drivers’ urban route choices. Transportation Research Procedia, 37, 123-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2018.12.174

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2019). Effect of complex traffic situations on route choice behaviour and driver stress in residential areas. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 60, 274-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2018.10.023

Schlag, B., Mai, M., Weller, G., Schreiber, F., Prokop, G., Deutsch, D., Grün, T., Rehbein, P. & Ringhand, M. (2018). Wie beeinflussen Warnungen unterschiedliche Parameter des Fahrerverhaltens? – 4 experimentelle Studien. Zeitschrift für Verkehrssicherheit, 64 (3), 199-208.

Ringhand, M., & Vollrath, M. (2018). Make this detour and be unselfish! Influencing urban route choice by explaining traffic management. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 53, 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.12.01

Rybarsch, M., Aschermann, M., Bock, F., Goralzik, A., Köster, F., Ringhand, M., & Trifunovic, A. (2017). Cooperative parking search: Reducing travel time by information exchange among searching vehicles. In 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1–6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2017.8317697

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2017). Investigating urban route choice as a conflict between waiting at traffic lights and additional travel time. Transportation Research Procedia, 25, 2432–2444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.258

further publications

Ringhand, M. (2019). Factors influencing drivers' urban route choice. Dissertation. Technische Universität Braunschweig. Link Universitätsbibliothek BraunschweigDOI Researchgate

Conference contributions

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2018). Faster or slower? Valence framing of car drivers’ urban route choices. (Präsentation) 21^st Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Transportation.

Ringhand, M., Bentrup, M. & Vollrath, M . (2017). Faster or slower? Influencing drivers‘ decision-making by framing the gains or losses of route options. (Poster) Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Dresden.

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2016). Lieber an der Ampel stehen oder Tempo 30 Zone? Der Einfluss von Wartezeit und Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung auf Navigationsentscheidungen. (Poster) 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig.

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2016). The effect of a red traffic light and reduced speed limit on drivers’ route choices in a driving simulator. (Präsentation) International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Brisbane.

Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2016). Investigating urban route choice as a conflict between waiting at traffic lights and additional travel time. (Präsentation) 14th World Conference on Transport Research, Shanghai.

Goralzik, A., Ringhand, M. & Vollrath, M. (2015). Der Mensch in kooperativen Verkehrssystemen. (Poster) 2. Doktorandentag des Niedersächsischen Forschungszentrums Fahrzeugtechnik, Braunschweig.

Ringhand, M., Friedrich, B. & Vollrath, M. (2015). "Wo fährst du lang?" - Routenwahlentscheidungen als Interessenkonflikt zwischen Stauvermeidung und Zeitgewinn. (Poster) 1. Kongress der Fachgruppe Verkehrspsychologie, Braunschweig.