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Transport research at the DLR is carried out in theme-centred projects: the relevant DLR institutes research concrete solutions in an interdisciplinary way. All projects benefit from being pooled in the DLR together with its other programs Aeronautics, Space and Energy, as well as networking with politics, the economy and science.

The route of the Test Bed Lower Saxony.

Test Bed Lower Saxony for automated and connected mobility

In the development of automated and connected vehicles, powerful and flexible test infrastructures are an important tool. For this purpose, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is constructing the Test Bed Lower Saxony, which is funded by the Niedersächsischen Ministerium für...

The automated vehicles create a digital barrier so that the drone can land safely.

Air2X

Digitalisation is fundamentally changing our mobility in many areas. In addition to self-driving cars, airborne drones are playing an ever-increasing role in an automated and connected transport system of tomorrow. Possible applications include the transport of vital medical...

COROTRANS: Effects of the CORONA pandemic on logistics, mobility, and the transportation system

In the COROTRANS project, the short-, medium- and long-term consequences of these measures on passenger transport, commercial transport (especially logistics) and the transport system as a whole in Germany will be investigated. Different phases of the pandemic, such as the...

Verkehr der Zukunft mit virtuellen Haltestellen und automatisierten Fahrzeugen.

ViVre - Virtual stops for the automated traffic of the future

The growing demand for mobility of people and goods poses major challenges for the inner-city transport infrastructure. At the same time, the increased volume of commuters increases the need for demand-oriented local public transportation (LPT) as well as more flexible...

BEniVer - Accompanying research on the energy transition in transport

Within the framework of the research initiative "Energiewende im Verkehr", the scientific accompanying research project "BEniVer" comprehensively investigates the development of renewable fuels with the aim of networking the 14 technical research projects of the initiative with...

U-SHIFT

Information on the vehicle concept The concept The autonomous, driverless, U-Shift electric vehicle concept enables a new type of modularity by separating the driving module from the transport capsule, thus creating new intermodality, new products and business models. The drive...

New Paths: Paths to sustainable mobility in Lower Saxony

The energy transition within the transportation sector has gained increasing importance within Germany in recent years and is an important element in achieving climate goals. The main focus for transportation is reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants...

EVer: Energy and Transport

In order to achieve Germany's environmental goals, major changes in the energy and transport sectors are required. In the energy sector, the switch to renewable electricity has already begun and significant progress has been made, although further development of renewables...

Half of the railway lines in the European Union are electrified and already enable local emission-free rail transport. Diesel-powered trains are used on the remaining sections of the lines. In the EU project FCH2RAIL (Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Pack for Rail Applications), the...

Intersection in the Berlin district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Real experiment "Temporary city square Klausenerplatz Kiez"

Transforming the transport sector also means fundamentally rethinking the distribution of public space. Especially in cities, public space has become a scarce resource that can be used in different ways. But what are the possibilities and ideas for the redistribution of public...

TAPAS: Model for the future demand of passenger transport in urban areas

The transport model TAPAS - Travel and Activity Patterns Simulation - provides data on the future development of passenger transport demand in urban areas. It is based on sociodemographic data and information on the time use of people, in which individual transport behavior is...

EUFAL: Electric Urban Freight and Logistics

Although it is commonly believed that EVs are suited to perform last mile deliveries in particular in urban areas, only some companies make use of electric delivery vehicles. Up to now, electric vehicles have been considered as perfect substitutes of conventional vehicles. But...

Vector21

Detailed bottom-up market simulation incorporating DLR knowledge Since 2007 the DLR Institute of Vehicle Concepts is conducting research on the underlying causalities and interdependencies of vehicle markets. VECTOR21 incorporates this knowledge in a detailed bottom-up scenario...

MEDIAS

MEDIAS: Development of methods for efficient access to research data in data portals Background The user-centric provision of information about data and the data itself is increasingly gaining importance through the general availability of new approaches for the publication...

ITSforAsia

The DLR is working over 10 years in the field of sustainable transport for (upcoming) Megacities and urban areas generally. Outgoing from China in 2002, several joint projects and EC-projects were conducted and led to an good network with reliable project participants in economy...

IMPACT-1 - The Railway of the Future

Shift2Rail has a vision of radically transformed mobility for the people, regions and business of Europe. This is necessary to face the challenges from the most important current societal trends e.g. climate change, urbanisation, territorial and social cohesion.

VABENE++

VABENE++

The goal is to efficiently manage the required rescue logistics and the nearby traffic flow even under extreme conditions, thereby enabling response teams to rapidly reach the locations where they are needed. Research focuses on such areas as simulation and large-scale traffic...

NGT Cargo

NGT CARGO

The NGT CARGO trains will be composed of individual CARGO wagons and high-performance locomotives, as required. The individual CARGO wagons each have a built-in engine with lower performance as well as an energy reservoir on board. This means that they are able, autonomously and...

NGT HST

NGT HST

The DLR develops concepts to show the trends and technologies for future rail vehicles. The main goals of the Next Generation Train (NGT) project are shorter travel times and reductions in specific energy consumption, noise emissions, and wear, while increasing passenger safety...

NGT LINK

The DLR develops concepts to show the trends and technologies for future rail vehicles. The main goals of the Next Generation Train (NGT) project are shorter travel times and reductions in specific energy consumption, noise emissions, and wear, while increasing passenger safety...

Transport and the Environment

Focused expertise for a sustainable transport system How will we be mobile in tomorrow´s world? What options do we have to develop transport more sustainably? A network of twelve research institutes overseen by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is researching those and other...

Urban mobility

Cities are growing, forms of life and work are changing, people are mobile and interconnected – the urban population is constantly moving. At the same time, public transport in cities is being transformed: new systems of bicycle rental and carsharing are evolving and services...

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COLOMBO

Urban traffic control (UTC) systems aim at enabling safe and efficient passing of the ever increasing road traffic flows at intersections and elsewhere. This requires determining the situation on the roads. Emerging cooperative techniques like vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)...

A++ Set

Background Leading principle during navigation of vessels is the avoidance of collision and groundings to protect life, goods, and the maritime living space. However, a virtually unchanged number of ships’ accident has been observed during the last decade. Statistical analyses...

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