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We are researching ways to make transport more climate-friendly, safer and more liveable.
Many needs and requirements of different stakeholders come together on the road. The number of vehicles, especially for transporting goods, is increasing and collides with the desire for safe routes for children and green spaces for leisure activities. And despite increasingly urgent climate protection targets, the transport sector has not been able to reduce CO2 emissions in recent years.
At the Institute of Transportation Systems, we are researching technologies that make the transport system more climate-friendly, safer and more liveable. To this end, we are driving forward the digitalisation and automation of road traffic, optimising the flow of traffic and providing all road users with the best possible support for their mobility needs.
Connecting vehicles with the infrastructure opens up new optimisation opportunities and provides technological solutions for controlling automated vehicles and infrastructure systems. With innovative operating concepts for passenger and freight transport fleets, we want to make the management of transport networks more sustainable and efficient. With a human-centred development and design of future technologies, innovative concepts and human-technology interfaces, we want to make these safe, efficient and, in particular, target group-oriented.
In many projects, we are working with industry to drive forward the testing of automated driving functions and identify operational areas in order to get connected, automated vehicles on the road as soon as possible. To do this, we use both simulative methods, such as our self-developed traffic flow simulation SUMO, and our Test Bed Lower Saxony for testing on real roads. We are also researching the support of vehicles through external technical supervision, thereby contributing to the implementation of the amended Road Traffic Act. In addition, we are developing traffic control procedures to increase road safety.
We are testing the interaction between different road users in various urban and suburban settings using test subject studies. In our MoSAIC laboratory, we use multi-user simulation to research the interaction of pedestrians and cyclists with automated vehicles. In this way, we are already making human-centred transport system technology not only testable but also tangible, paving the way for safe, climate-friendly mobility.