Research Focus of the third Research Training Group
"Mobility in Transition - Challenges and Solutions for Technology, Environment and Society".
Future issues and possible solutions in the context of changed mobility systems will affect various areas of society. New technologies such as e-mobility and autonomous driving offer the potential for sustainable change in the mobility sector. A multitude of different future mobility scenarios are conceivable. The question arises as to which technologies can be combined for a successful transformation of mobility and which effects the various scenarios have on the environment and society. The operational perspective is also relevant here as production processes and value chains adapt and new services are created. The transformation of mobility also involves new usage patterns and consumption preferences, with effects on our individual everyday lives; effects that are not yet fully understood. At the same time, change requires constant technological development, for example in the production and storage of new synthetic fuels.
The expected change in mobility has become a complex and challenging topic in every respect. The accompanying changes raise scientific questions that penetrate deeply into our existing self-image as a society and into our everyday lives. For as comprehensive as the solutions offered by the new mobility systems are, they will radically change those things that seem self-evident today.
The third Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group continues this topic. Within the scope of the doctoral projects, new mobility technologies and scenarios as well as the related questions are considered from different scientific perspectives. The 19 doctoral projects are divided into four scientifically delimited but thematically converging clusters. In this way, the transformation processes in the fields of traffic, environment, and society can be examined in a technically appropriate, perspectively diverse, and methodologically multifaceted manner and existing synergies can be exploited on a broad interdisciplinary basis.