MWK Future Lab Mobility

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The MWK Future Mobility Lab is developing digitalised and intermodal mobility concepts to respond to the increasing volume of traffic and changing mobility needs.

The volume of traffic is increasing not only in Lower Saxony, but worldwide. This is leading to changes in mobility needs and with them to changes in the requirements for mobility solutions, particularly with regard to speed, safety, reliability, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, energy efficiency and environmental compatibility. Digitalisation is an essential basis for new solutions and business models, for example through networked (autonomous) vehicle systems and functions based on environment and situation recognition, navigation, control, human-machine interfaces, as well as communication, interaction and cooperation. Mobility concepts of the future will be characterised by a stronger combination of different mobility carriers and will further integrate the transport of people and goods. Intermodality requires better networking of the mobility carriers with each other and with the users and thus a cross-transport system view of technologies and processes for collecting, analysing and providing data. The guiding principle of the MWK Future Lab is therefore from intelligent vehicles to integrated mobility.

Central aspects are digitalised and intermodal mobility concepts, digital services, intelligent traffic and transport systems, vehicle systems and functions, security and data protection of mobility-related data as well as intelligent, data-based applications, which are each examined in more detail in the individual research groups.

Among other things, the MWK Future Lab focuses on the intermodal mobility chain from door to door, as well as the selection and combination of different modes of transport and services on roads, rail and water. In addition to the individual vehicle, mobility encompasses all modes of transport and thus represents the entire mobility system. User-centred approaches based on individual needs are being analysed. Nine universities and research institutions from Lower Saxony are working hand-in-hand in the Future Mobility Lab. We are in charge of CRF3 of the Future Lab and are primarily concerned with future scenarios and their requirements for the future. The content is an important cornerstone of our strategy research and also opens up a lot of potential for us externally.

Complexity of the mobility system.
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Krasteva, TU Braunschweig

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Mobility of the future: intelligent vehicles | ZDIN Future Mobility Lab
Intelligent vehicles? Autonomous driving? The mobility of the future is very promising. The mobility lab of the future is looking at the possibilities. In the video, the researchers use a driving simulator to show how future mobility can be designed. They also explain why data management is relevant for the means of transport of the future and what new business models are possible, apart from car sharing. The aim is to find sustainable and efficient options for the mobility of the future. The Future Mobility Lab - building cross-transport bridges. Further information on the Future Mobility Lab can be found at https://zdin.de/zukunftslabore/mobilitaet
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Zentrum für digitale Innovationen Niedersachsen

Project title and -website:
MWK-Zukunftslabor Mobilität (MWK_ZL) (in English: MWK Future Lab Mobility)

Duration:
10/2019 to 09/2024

Project volume:
€ 614.981,00

Project coordinator:
NFF

Contact

Dr. Tobias Hesse

Acting Director of the Institute of Road Systems Technology
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Transportation Systems
Rutherfordstraße 2, 12489 Berlin