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The mission of the chair of traffic process automation is:

To educate students at a high scientific level, but not detached from practice, in the fields of traffic control technology, traffic control systems and traffic process automation and to enable them, as graduates of our university, to contribute significantly to the improvement of traffic systems in industry, administration or in engineering offices,
To make significant contributions to the further development of traffic sciences in the field of research, to promote the development and testing of innovative procedures and methods, and
To apply and implement the scientific findings in an exemplary manner together with appropriate partners in the region in order to improve transport.

The following laboratories, some of which are still under construction, serve the chair to meet these objectives:

Test field for equipment and design of control centers (ÖV+IV), practical training, development and test field for optimally designed control centers
Operating station for productive systems: VAMOS control center Dresden
Operator station for research work and investigations of operator interfaces, presentations.
The control center laboratory is not only used for training purposes. The VAMOS control center of the Dresden traffic management system is also installed in this laboratory. This VAMOS control center includes an extensive background system consisting of several networked servers that operate 24 hours a day. The traffic data center of Dresden is also located here, where all online traffic data from the urban area of the state capital and from the highways in Saxony are collected, evaluated and transferred into an up-to-date dynamic traffic situation model (the georeferenced database system VAMOS-DVM).

Laboratory for the development and testing of software solutions (in-house developments and commercial products) for various fields of activity, in particular traffic telematics (traffic engineer workstations with various software, including LISA, Siemens P2, furthermore VISUM, VISSIM, development systems for artificial neural networks, fuzzy control, genetic algorithms, software for traffic flow simulation, geographic information systems)

Laboratory for the development of methods for the optimization of train movements, in particular for energy-optimized driving modes and for energy-optimized operating controls
Driving simulator consisting of an original traction unit driver's cab BR425 and video projection
Comparative studies on the driver's cab for conventional and computer-aided driving modes
proof of savings potentials
practical test field for driver assistance systems in railroad systems

Hardware and its control/control technology for practical training/practical courses (LSA and LSA models, WVZ prism turner, Vario display, SPS control, IRIS components, stop displays, on-board computers, navigation systems, driver assistance systems)
Test and demonstration of traffic information components (visualization variants, terminal devices, user behavior, user profiles, acceptance)

Demonstration, test and knowledge transfer of traffic detector technology (models e.g. loop detector, level counting station, TLS cabinet, TEU, camera detector, live camera detector, public transport detection, satellite based positioning and navigation, navigation systems)

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