Innovative mobility has found its home in Thuringia

12/10/2019 | Invest in Thüringen

Robots have replaced some delivery drivers for bringing packages to people’s homes, mobility stations allow for the use of bicycles, eScooters and cargo bikes, and ride-sharing and car-sharing models are creating new sustainable transit opportunities in cities. With the help of IT platforms and Artificial Intelligence, data can be anonymously collected and shared to develop innovative solutions for mobility, logistics and energy – this may sound like blue-skies thinking, but in Thuringia’s capital city of Erfurt, these kinds of solutions will one day be piloted in one of the city’s districts.

“Bauhaus. MobilityLab” is the name of the project, which was a successful participant in the Federal Ministry’s AI competition. A field test will be conducted over the next three years in the district of Brühl, home to the Erfurter Dom, where the innovative products and services will be developed and tested. With the help of residents, the applications will be tested, and the users will have access to apps that help them to find efficient and sustainable mobility solutions. At the same time, the researchers involved can analyze the anonymized data and continuously optimize the mobility and energy solutions developed. Partners in the initiative include the Fraunhofer Society IOSB-AST (Ilmenau), the Bauhaus-University Weimar and Innoman GmbH (Ilmenau). With a project volume of around 20 million euros, the “Bauhaus. MobilityLab” is intended to become a guiding light for the mobility and energy transition in Germany in the coming years. (hw)

In the future, an electric cargo bike could be one of the offers in the framework of the Bauhaus.MobilityLab. Photo: Fraunhofer

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