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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.

Wie kann Klimaschutz im Stadtverkehr und auf dem Campus der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar umgesetzt werden? Mit dieser Fragestellung setzten sich 21 Studierende im Rahmen des »Bauhaus.Semesters« auseinander. Unter fachlicher Anleitung der Masterstudierenden Lena Klopfstein und Maximilian Wunsch entstanden acht Mobilitätskonzepte, welche nun nach und nach umgesetzt werden.

On 5th and 6th December, 2018 the international conference "Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in Baltic Sea Region" took place in Vilnius (Lithuania). The conference, in which high-ranking experts and politicians participated, was also attended by the two employees of the Chair of Traffic System Planning, Dipl.-Ing. Julius Uhlmann and MSc Johannes Vogel, who presented findings from traffic safety work.

On November 21st, the VSVI seminar "Traffic Safety of Roads" took place in Erfurt. In addition to the police Weimar and other road safety experts, the members of the Chair of Transport System Planning, Mr Raimo Harder and Mr Johannes Vogel also spoke.

On November 14th and 15th, the final attendance phase and thus the completion of this year's Certificate Course "Road Safety Audit – Auditors for Rural Roads and Cross-Town Roads" took place at the Chair of Transport System Planning.

From October 31 to November 3, 32 students and 8 staff members of the Chair of Transport System Planning went on an excursion to Copenhagen. The trip took place in the course of the lecture "International Case Studies". The programme included a guided bike tour and meetings with the Danish Railway Administration (Banedanmark) and the City of Copenhagen.

Scientists from Bauhaus-University present contributions to highly automated driving at the interdisciplinary conference on "Positioning and Navigation for Intelligent Transport Systems" (POSNAV).

What consequences could transport integration have? How can measures of transport integration benefit the public transport system? Those questions were discussed by Dipl.-Ing. Julius Uhlmann in his presentation at the conference "Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication" in Riga.

How will a Green Wave affect traffic quality? Will a more frequent public transport help reduce particulate matter emissions? M.Sc Fedior and M.Sc. Hamel wants to know how traffic management measures affect transport and the environment before the implementation. At the conference "30. Forum Bauinformatik" they presented a simulation environment for the evaluation of environmentally-oriented traffic management strategies.

Fare-free public transport is a concept that has been discussed by the public many times. The Estonian capital Tallinn was the first European capital to implement a system of fare-free public transport for its inhabitants in 2013. Allan Alaküla from the City of Tallinn will join us for the first guest lecture in the module “International Case Studies” and present Tallinn’s approach and its effects. All interested are invited.

Join us on this guided 4-day fieldtrip to Copenhagen where we will explore state-of-the-art transportation solutions.

A master thesis and a bachelor thesis will be presentedt at the Chair of Transport System Planning on October 4, 2018.

Professorship and WBA together inform about courses of study and further education possibilities in the fields of road and traffic at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Calculating traffic-related emissions: Prof. Plank-Wiedenbeck, Marco Fedior and Wido Hamel present evaluation framework for traffic and environmental impact control at the first milestone meeting of the SCHOOL project - Change of strategy through Open Data-oriented solutions.
At the meeting of the project partners in Frankfurt am Main not only the previous work packages were presented, but by mutual feedback also the elaboration of the following work packages was concretized.

Three students are going to present the outcomes of their final theses, supervised by the chair of transportation system planning, next Monday. Feel free to join the presentations!

As it has been the case for many years, again this year students and employees of the Chair Transport System Planning participated in the international workshop “City and Traffic”, which took place from 8/-14/7 in the Austrian town Tulln an der Donau.

On the 06/07/2018, a group of eleven students accompanied by two employees of the Chair Transport System Planning visited the Railway Operation Laboratory of Technical University Dresden. As part of a behind-the-scenes tour, Mr. Walerian Nesterenko, responsible for laboratory control and software development, gave the students an understanding of the basics of rail operations, process control technique as well as of the mode of operation of various signal box designs.

The Chair Transport System Planning welcomes the new research assistants M.Sc. Marco Fedior, M.Sc. Wido Hamel and Dipl.-Ing. Julius Uhlmann as part of the team.