Research Fields

• Mobile public transport navigation
  
• Traffic-oriented GIS systems and data integration
• Concepts for the mobility of the future
  
• Digitalization in rural areas

• Electronic and mobile ticketing
• Innovative tariff systems for public transport and revenue calculation
• Modeling and simulation of tariff systems

• Transport network models and operation concepts for public and private transport
  
• Lifecycle cost analyses and benefit-cost analyses

• Data acquisition for road planning
  
• Live camera system for traffic data acquisition
• Detection and prognosis of traffic jams
  

• Traffic-related environmental studies
• Analysis of traffic-related immissions
• Evaluation of restrictive measures

Highly automated driving

Autonomous driving functions

Intelligent traffic management

Conntected transport mode

• Communication technologies and systems
  
• High-precision positioning
  
• Automation
  

• Drivetrain development
• Alternative propulsion systems (hybrid, electric)
• Energy management and auxiliary control
• Operation concepts and consulting

• Systems integration for vehicles
  
• Air-conditioning concepts
• Public transport simulation

• Automated lane guidance
• Electronic multi-axle steering systems
• Test vehicles with measuring equipment
• Navigability analyses

• Driving simulation
• Modeling of accidents
• Analyses of accident data

• Autonomous commercial vehicles
• Automated agriculture

• Battery system development
• Mobile and stationary energy storage systems
• Grid integration of charging processes

• SOC and SOH monitoring
• Safe and secure data transmission and storage
• User-specific data evaluation

• Energy transmission and infrastructure for public transport vehicles
• Concepts for the implementation of electric vehicle fleets
• Accompaniment in the registration of new components

• Renewable heat and energy production
• Energy management
• Functional integration

• Grid-balancing energy storage
• Hydrogen production using excess electricity

• Second-life battery concepts
• Opportunity charging of electric buses
• Peak shaving
• Primary control reserve

• Design of strategic and operative planning software
• Software systems for hazard prevention
  
• Social media analyses

• Optimal maintenance planning
• Concepts for predictive maintenance
  
• Simulation of long-term maintenance strategies

• Evaluation of free data streams with regard to emerging risks
  
• Big Data applications

• Development of digitalization strategies
• Analysis of data streams
• Optimization methods using Big Data approaches

• Robust and dynamic route planning
• Online optimization under uncertainty
• Realtime-capable algorithms and systems

• Infrared thermography in human and veterinary medicine
  
• Methods of automated data processing