Transport

Transport System

Mobility is a central feature of developed societies. The transportation of people and goods not only generates social participation and added value but also causes negative effects that need to be minimised. For this reason, DLR is researching the interrelationships between the development of transport and its impact in their different dimensions.

Road Traffic

Road traffic will remain the dominant mode of transport for the foreseeable future. Researchers are not limiting their focus simply to the technical development of road vehicles, but are also pursuing an integrated approach in which the relationships between vehicles, infrastructure and traffic management approaches are considered and investigated in a methodical manner that addresses the entire system.

Rail Transport

A sustainable transport system that is viable in the long term from an economic, ecological and social point of view can only be achieved with modern, reliable and efficient rail transport. For this reason, DLR is also following a systematic research approach for this mode of transport.

News / Transport

Projects

Projects DLR Transport

Transport research at the DLR is carried out in theme-centred projects: the relevant DLR institutes research concrete solutions in an interdisciplinary way.

Infrastructure

Large-scale research facilities
The portfolio at DLR currently comprises some 180 large-scale research facilities at 15 locations, including the polar regions. DLR also makes its large-scale facilities available to partners from industry and academia as part of its cooperative research activities.

Jobs / Transport

Participating institutes

Facts / Transport

Transport – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

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Transport systems – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

19,42,17

19
Rail transport – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

19,42,17

42
Road traffic – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

19,42,17

17

Transport research at DLR

Transport System

Road Traffic

Rail Transport

Joint Japanese-German research project investigates networked and automated driving

Significant reduction in global and particularly German air traffic expected, with prospects for recovery

DLR 2020 – research for climate, mobility and the energy transition

DLRmagazine 163 – Metropolitan transformer

Decline in low-cost flights despite a record number of routes in summer 2019

Declining numbers of flights in Germany and subdued growth worldwide until the end of 2019

All-rounder in urban traffic – unveiling of the Urban Modular Vehicle (UMV)

DLR at IAA New Mobility World 2019

DLR jury selects the winning German team for this year's NASA/DLR Design Challenge

DLR conducts flight tests for gyrocopter drones

Worldwide decline in air traffic growth

Lufthansa Consulting and DLR form strategic innovation partnership

DLRmagazine 161 - Light as air and versatile

DLR strengthens Germany as a technology location with seven new institutes

European reusable launch systems for more sustainability in spaceflight

DLR at the Paris Air Show 2019

Artificial intelligence assists with accident data analysis

DLR tests innovative crisis management solutions in The Hague

A record number of flight connections and falling prices

DLR/NASA Design Challenge dedicated to concepts for small aircraft and new technologies for regional air transport

Projects DLR Transport

Large-scale research facilities

National and international research tasks and development of topics for the fields of traffic and mobility management as well as public transport

Navigation and sensor systems (camera, LiDAR, GNSS) for vehicles and transport infrastructure

Runtime Tracing of Flight Software

Characterizing atmospheric turbulence for adaptive optics correction techniques toward free-space optical communications

Support and further development of a design laboratory including software and hardware prototypes for automated vehicles

Institute of Vehicle Concepts

Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology

Institute of Vehicle Concepts

Institute of Flight Guidance

Institute of Aerospace Medicine

Institute of Materials Research

Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics

Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems

Institute of Flight Systems

Institute of Combustion Technology

Institute of Propulsion Technology

Institute of Communications and Navigation

Institute of Air Transport and Airport Research

Institute of Optical Sensor Systems

Institute of Transportation Systems

Microwaves and Radar Institute

The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)

Institute of Structures and Design

Institute of Transport Research

Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF)

Institute of System Dynamics and Control

Institute of Material Physics in Space

Institute for Software Technology

Flight Experiments facility

Transport – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

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DLR is transitioning to minimum operational status

8th Industrial Days at the DLR site in Lampoldshausen

Pascale Ehrenfreund takes office as President of the IAF

Space – accessibility, diplomacy and cooperation

The DLR delegation during a visit to the JAXA Tsukuba Space Centre on 31 July 2019

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and DLR welcome European policy-makers to Brussels

Dust storms swirl at Mars' north pole

DLR and ONERA – joint research into AI for the aerospace sector

Global Conference on Space in Emerging Countries

EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska visits DLR

Consul General of India Sugandh Rajaram visits DLR

Mars mole HP³ arrives at the Red Planet

UN Germany High Level Forum 'The Way Forward after UNISPACE+50 and on Space2030' in Bonn

Lightweight construction and the factory of the future: DLR@UBC cooperation agreement signed in Augsburg

The search for the perfect energy storage system

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visits the DLR site in Cologne

Pascale Ehrenfreund elected incoming President of the International Astronautical Federation

Shaping future mobility through European research

DLR and French research institute IFSTTAR announce cooperation

Global Space Applications Conference 2018