How can the way to school be made safer for the children of the Martin-Luther-Grundschule in Eisenberg? Lena Klopfstein (B.Sc.) dealt with this question as part of her student research project at the Chair of Transport System Planning. First approaches have already been taken up by the city administration, as local media report.
In the midth of October, the Chair of Transport System Planning in the person of MSc Johannes Vogel accepted an invitation from the partner university in Györ to Hungary. Mr Vogel held two guest lectures on road safety at the Szechenyi Istvan University in Györ on 14th and 15th October, before he gave a lecture on the training of road safety auditors in Germany at the 3rd Hungarian Transport Conference on 16th October.
From spring 2020, innovative products and services in the fields of mobility, logistics and energy will be developed and tested under real conditions in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, with the aid of artificial intelligence. An interdisciplinary consortium led by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the bauhaus-Universität Weimar and INNOMAN GmbH has successfully participated in the >>KI-Innovationswettbewerb<< of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy. With a project volume of around 20 million euros, the >>Bauhaus.MobilityLab<< is to become a beacon of mobility and energy revolution over the next three years.
For the courses "International Case Studies", "Macroscopic Transport Modelling" and "Mobility as a Service" a special application system is in operation
The Chair for Transport System Planning is offering a position, starting Nov. 2019, for a Student/Research Assistant
for tasks related to non-degree study programme „Sustainable Transportation Planning“ with ca. 10 working hours per month (according to agreement).
Students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering spent four informative days in and around Hamburg. On the excursion organized by b.is, they gained insights into the practice of recycling management, urban development in HafenCity, resources and energy use.
From 07th until 13th July 2019 the Chair of Traffic System Planning participated again in the international workshop "City & Traffic", which took place this year at its 24th edition in Krakow (Poland).
On 24 June 2019, this year's certificate course for road safety auditors for motorways, rural roads and through roads was started. It is organized by the Chair of Traffic System Planning and the Bauhaus Further Education Academy.
Am 21.06.2019 stellte die Thüringer Umweltministerin Anja Siegesmund den "Masterplan Elektromobilität für Thüringen 2030" vor, welcher von der Professur Verkehrsystemplanung zusammen mit der FH Erfurt entwickelt wurde.
On 6th and 7th June 2019 the 4th Conference “Practical Issues of Road Safety” took place in Lagów (Poland). Mr Johannes Vogel as representative of the Chair of Transport System Planning held a presentation about “Traffic accidents as a result of deficits in planning and design in urban areas” and also received a letter of honor on behalf of the former head of the chair, Mr Ulrich Brannolte.
On May 11 and 12, the two assistants of the Chair, Dipl.-Ing. Raimo Harder and M. Sc. Johannes Vogel, were invited to Zielona Góra in Poland to support their colleagues from Uniwersytet Zielonogórski in the training of road safety auditors and to intensify the exchange of experiences between Poland and Germany in the field of road safety work.
How could a transportation system look like, which is uncoupeld from traffic and economic growth? Julius Uhlmann, research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Transport System Planning, and Johannes Elstner discussed this question at the Postwachstumsstadt conference in Weimar on May 10 and 11.
Die Professur Verkehrssystemplanung sucht ab sofort mehere Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für unterstützende Tätigkeiten im Projekt Bauhaus.MobilityLab mit einem flexiblen Arbeitsumfang.
On April 4, the defense of a Bachelor's thesis in the field of urbanism is taking place at the Chair of Transport System Planning. The thesis is titeld: "Die Superblocks in Barcelona als Teil einer übergeordneten Klimaschutzstrategie" ("Superblocks in Barcelona as a part of a greate clima protection strategy"). All interested are invited to attend. The defense will take place in German.
Six students and two lecturers of the Chair of Transport System Planning attended the joined German-Russian Workshop “Urban Infrastructure”, which took place at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering in late February. This year the main topic of the workshop was the mobility of students and staff on the MGSU campus.
On March 18th and 19th this year's "Symposium for Road Safety with Auditor's Forum" took place at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, which was attended by more than 220 participants. At the annual conference, current research results in the field of traffic safety are presented and discussed together. The event is primarily aimed at road safety auditors.
On 21 February 2019, the VSVI seminar "Promotion of bicycle traffic in Thuringia" took place in Erfurt. In addition to other speakers, the member of the Chair of Traffic System Planning, Mr. Johannes Vogel, gave a presentation on the guidance of bicycle traffic at local entrances. The event was organized and moderated by Mr. Raimo Harder, member of the Chair of Traffic System Planning, and Ms. Anne Bellmann, traffic planner of the city of Weimar.
On Monday, Prof. Uwe Plank-Wiedenbeck, holder of the Chair of Transports System Planning together with Prof. Mark Jentsch (Chair of Urban Energy Systems) an Prof. Frank Lademann (TH Mittelhessen) presented the feasibility study on the operation of hydrogen fuell cell trains in Thuringia.