City and Traffic: International Students Workshop on Transport and Urban Engineering

The international internship "City & Traffic" was held for the first time in 1996 (then called "Seminar for Traffic and Urban Planning") at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt. Since then, it has taken place 28 times every year in July, now in 14 different cities. During the internship, proposals for improving real (street) areas with specific traffic-related problems are developed over the course of one week.

This year, for the first time, the Czech city of Zlín hosted the event. From July 6 to 12, 2025, more than 30 students and supervisors from six countries gathered there. Six intentionally internationally mixed small groups worked for four days to create posters with problem analyses and solution proposals for street sections and intersections specified by the host city. On the fifth day, the results were presented to the entire group as well as to representatives of the local urban traffic planning department and critically discussed.

The result posters of the group led by Wolfgang J. Berger from the Institute of Transport Studies are shown as an example. For him, this year's workshop marked a special milestone: it was his 25th time participating as a lecturer.