MITHOS – make cycling and walking in Hamburg safer and more attractive

The project MITHOS uses locally installed sensor systems, extensive traffic and infrastructure data as well as modelling and simulations to evaluate the safety, efficiency and attractiveness of cycling and walking in Hamburg and to derive future mobility developments.

In the project MITHOS, locally installed sensing units will support cyclists, pedestrians and micro-mobility users in a flexible and dynamic way to increase safety, efficiency, comfort and thus, attractivity. Gathered real-time and offline information about the traffic situation (e.g. traffic volumes, critical situations, objects, trajectories, CPM (collective perception message)) merged with crash data-bases help to assess the safety and efficiency of cyclists and pedestrians by well-defined KPIs such as loss/journey time, number and severity of accidents and critical situations, noise pollution, fuel consumption, infrastructure failure. Modelling and 3D-simulating certain road spots of the Smart Bike Corridor (SBC) design additionally helps to design the safe, efficient and comfortable future cycling in Hamburg. Extending these findings by scaling up local results with regard to current and future traffic demand (e.g. increased modal-shift towards cyclists) shows opportunities and limits of the current and future mobility in Hamburg.

Use Case Smart digital tools for reconstructing and assessing Smart Bike Corridors (SBC).
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Project title:
MITHOS – Innovative Decision-making Tool for the Federated Monitoring Re-Design and Conservation of Multimodal Transport Infrastructures

Duration:
08/2025 to 07/2029

Project volume:
€ 5 Mio

Contracting authority:
European Commission

Project coordinator:
CEIT (Centro de Estudios e InvestigacionesTécnicas de Guipúzcoa), Spain

Project participants:
AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH), Austria
Bilbao City Council, Spain
BVM (Authority for Transport and Mobility Transition), Germany
CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas), Greece
DLR (German Aerospace Center), Institute of Transportation Systems, Germany
EMISIA (Anonimi Etairia Perivallontikon Kaienergiakon Meleton Kai Anaptixis Logismikou), Greece
IFPEN (IFP Energies Nouvelles), France
JKU (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Austria
KEITA (Keita Mobility Factory SL), Spain
MLC (Asociación Clúster de Movilidad y Logística de Euskadi), Spain
PATRIC (Prague Advanced Technology and Research Innovation Center), Czech Republic
THETA (Thessaloniki Transport Authority), Greece
THI (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt), Germany

This project is managed by the department:

Digitalized Road Transport

Our department Digitalized Road Transport is actively shaping the digital twin of the transport system – with a particular focus on road transport. The aim is to enable open and barrier-free access to all relevant data and technologies – non-discriminatory, federated and networked. On this technological basis, we develop intelligent digital services that work across all levels of the transport system: from road users and vehicles to edge [...]

Contact

Dr. Sascha Knake-Langhorst

Head of Department
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Transportation Systems
Digitalized Road Transport
Lilienthalplatz 7, 38108 Braunschweig