Highschooler investigates traffic justice at traffic lights

The Chair of Traffic Process Automation congratulates 11th grader Tabea Degenhardt from Martin-Andersen-Nexö Gymnasium, supervised by research assistant Dipl. Dipl-Ing. Django Adam, for her successfully defended scientific project work "Potential analysis to increase traffic justice at traffic signal systems - exemplary traffic engineering revision". With her performance, she proved that schoolgirls are also interested in engineering and technical problems in the current times and that she is able to develop complex solutions based on her sound school education. This opinion was shared by an independent jury from the "Saxony. Land of Engineers" foundation and the Saxony Chamber of Engineers, who honored her work with an award. With her work, Tabea Degenhardt presents an exemplary, practical analysis of the potential for more traffic justice at traffic light systems (LSA). She is thus making a valuable research contribution to the mobility transition in urban areas. Tabea Degenhardt finds motivation and relevance in the current IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the national climate protection goals of the German government and the cycling concept of the city of Dresden. According to her, the aim of her work is: "[The] development of a circuit [of the traffic lights] for the Wiener Straße/Gellertstraße intersection, which improves the traffic quality for pedestrians and cyclists without causing a significant deterioration for motorized individual traffic." Using extensive simulation, Tabea Degenhardt proves that she was able to achieve this objective for the selected intersection and concludes: "[...] that there are other intersections in Dresden with as yet untapped potential in terms of greater traffic justice."