Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems involved in two projects nominated for the Mobility Award 2024

Last week, the MoveOn project won the Audience Award of the German Mobility Prize 2024 at the Federal Government's Digital Summit! In addition to the project partners Climate Alliance and the Chair of Transport Ecology at TU Dresden, flow.d GmbH, which was spun off from the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems (formerly Computer Networks) in 2021, received this award.

The MoveOn research project uses the CITY CYCLING campaign app to collect digital cycling data from hundreds of thousands of cyclists, which municipalities and federal states can use directly for their cycling planning.

Since March 2021, flow.d GmbH has been designing, developing and operating the RiDE - Cycling in Germany data portal, in which the cycling data for the MoveOn project is also recorded, processed and made available to the municipalities participating in the CITY CYCLING campaign. As part of two final theses, the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems and flow.d also jointly developed the key innovations for two use cases in the MoveOn project.

In addition to MoveOn, the PrioBike-HH project was also nominated for the short list of the German Mobility Award in the "practical examples" category. Even though PrioBike-HH did not win in this category, the nomination once again recognizes the project's contributions to improving conditions for cyclists after being awarded 3rd place in the German Bicycle Prize.

In the PrioBike-HH research project, the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems is working together with institutions of the City of Hamburg, INAVET GmbH, Yunex Traffic and the Chair of Traffic Control Systems and Process Automation at TU Dresden to accelerate cycling traffic through smart, networked systems.

In the PrioBike-HH project, the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems is responsible for the design and implementation of the PrioBike app, including the associated backend services. The PrioBike app offers Hamburg cyclists routing based on cycling infrastructure and altitude data, a digital green wave and a wide range of other information on cycling in the city. In line with the continuous cycling approach, cyclists also provide ride data via the app, which flows back into the app to improve routing and speed information.