Current Projects:

BMK Endowed Chair of Digitalization and Automation in the Transport and Mobility System (DAVeMoS)

Innovations in the transport and mobility system are accompanied by spatial, social and ecological effects - this also applies to digitalization and automation and requires a systemic research approach to the topic. The BMK Endowed Professorship will investigate the interactions and connections between the expected technological development on the one hand and the impact structure of people, society, space, environment and economy on the other in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner with broad methodological approaches. The aim of the endowed professorship is to help avoid negative system effects by creating a sound evidence base, to identify suitable framework conditions (e.g. legal and infrastructural) from a social perspective, to promote their implementation and to develop promising planning procedures, methods and materials. A particular focus is on supporting public and private sector decision-makers in order to provide fact-based economic impetus and promote socially desirable sustainable development.

 

ZeroFlex - Flexible mobility stations as a module for the traffic turnaround

The core of the ZeroFlex project is the development, construction and broad demonstration operation of flexible and highly innovative mobility points (ZeroFlex stations) as an important basis for the spread of zero-emission technologies and the associated reduction of greenhouse gases. The central advantages of ZeroFlex are (1) the enormous cost efficiency in construction and operation (compared to solutions and offers currently on the market), (2) the flexible leasing model for public and private providers / infrastructure operators, (3) the (associated) flexible use of individual components by customers and thus (4) the greatly facilitated dissemination in the area, both in rural and urban areas. The basis for ZeroFlex is efficient and intelligent integration into the Austrian energy system and overall integration into public and private infrastructure systems. The project aims at the development and subsequent broad use of hardware solutions (including software components for scheduling, administration and an APP for users) for flexible mobility stations in order to test the practical suitability (organizational, technical, economic, etc.) in demonstration operation and to think in terms of scalability from the outset or to go into the field after the end of the project.