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Fraunhofer IVI and Stadtreinigung Dresden GmbH (SRD), the leading waste management company in the greater Dresden area, are launching a practical test of an automated charging system that improves the efficiency and safety of charging electric vehicles in urban logistics operations. This new technology makes charging electric trucks easier, as the entire process can be started and stopped without cables and at the push of a button. This marks a significant step forward in developing practical, space-saving charging solutions to meet the challenges of electric mobility.

Digitalization offers the construction and real estate industry an enormous potential for increasing productivity and exploring new value creation opportunities. For the past three years, eleven partners worked together in the iECO project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWiK) to develop a future-proof digital infrastructure for the industry. Their central result: a Gaia-X-compliant data space that forms the basis for a digital twin of the entire building life cycle and enables innovative smart services.

Ein zentraler Baustein für die sichere und effiziente Nutzung autonomer mobiler Maschinen wie Agrarroboter oder Baumaschinen ist die Zuverlässigkeit ihrer Wahrnehmungssysteme. Aktuell gibt es nur wenige Zulieferer für die benötigten Technologien, da diese oft nur als Konzepte existieren oder die benötigten Fähigkeiten und Ressourcen nur in großen Unternehmen vorhanden sind. Daher fehlt es an zugänglichen und wirtschaftlichen Lösungen im Bereich der mobilen Arbeitsmaschinen für mittelständische Firmen.

A first meeting with representatives of the faculty took place at Fraunhofer IVI to exchange ideas on research approaches, expertise and opportunities for cooperation. The faculty is the largest academic competence center for transport sciences in Germany and can look back on more than 60 years of research tradition. Fraunhofer IVI has been conducting research in Dresden for over 25 years, focusing on innovative solutions for mobility and infrastructure.

Wie sieht die Landwirtschaft von morgen aus? Wie werden sich elektrifizierte und automatisierte Fahrzeuge auf unsere zukünftige Ernährung auswirken? Und was machen eigentlich Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler so den ganzen Tag? Mit diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen besuchten zwei fünfte Klassen der Gemeinschaftsschule Campus Cordis das Fraunhofer IVI. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler beschäftigen sich im Rahmen einer Projektwoche intensiv mit den Themen Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit. Das Interesse an den Forschungsschwerpunkten zur elektrifizierten und automatisierten Landwirtschaft war dementsprechend besonders groß.

At the end of February, more than 220 experts in connected driving from research, business and administrative staff, from authorities and associations met at the C-ITS Forum in Frankfurt. The leading symposium for cooperative intelligent transportation systems and services is a platform for discussing the potential of C-ITS services, the path to a harmonized rollout, and challenges and solutions from practice at the highest professional level.

In order to provide services on the required scale, new vehicle concepts in passenger and freight transport will mostly have electric drive systems and a high degree of automation. The research project GAIA-X 4 ROMS (Support and Remote Operation of Automated and Connected Mobility Services) has laid the necessary foundations for the integration of innovative vehicles into the overall system.

January 21, 2025 | Comparatively low costs for both the electric buses and the charging infrastructure due to continuous competition, low energy prices and a huge potential for generating electric energy from renewable sources – thanks to these advantages, the additional costs for operating electric buses are much lower in Chile than they are in Germany. The South American country is successfully using these advantages and currently owns one of the world’s largest fleets of electric buses.

January 24, 2025 | Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), which also include the networking and digitalization of vehicles and infrastructure, are considered to be one of the essential puzzle pieces for realizing safe, efficient and sustainable transportation in the context of future mobility. The EU-funded C-Roads initiative, under whose umbrella pilot projects are being carried out in numerous European countries, is dedicated to the rollout of harmonized C-ITS services.