On 4 January 2025, our colleague of many years, Prof Dr Robert Sausen, passed away unexpectedly at the age of just 69. Robert Sausen was born in Lissingen in the Eifel in 1955 and attended the Cusanus ...

In order to strengthen cooperation within the DLR institutes and facilities in the fields of space, aeronautics and transport, make optimum use of synergy effects and avoid thematic duplication, the ...

DLR researcher Marco Sagliano from the Institute of Space Systems in Bremen has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for his STARGATE project. November 25, 2024 ...

Automated driving functions and intelligent assistance systems have become an integral part of our everyday lives. In the future, traffic will be even more characterised by them. But how can we trust ...

Future urban intersections will have several new functionalities to make traffic safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. Communication between vehicle and infrastructure, intelligent ...

In the 5G Living Lab, DLR and the Smart Rail Connectivity Campus (SRCC) moved a remote-controlled train through the Ore Mountains. The train driver was in a control centre in Braunschweig and the ...

The Test Bed Lower Saxony actually covers the Braunschweig-Wolfsburg-Hanover region, but thanks to the mobile measurement station, researchers can also record and directly analyse traffic at any other ...

In road traffic conflicts can only be resolved and trusting co-operation can only be achieved through good communication. Cooperative vehicles and intelligent infrastructures are a good approach to ...

In view of climate change, railway research is more important than ever. At the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), researchers at the Institute of Transportation Systems are making an important ...

The institute members are marked with bold letters. Under the given Links you will find the abstracts of the papers and if necessary also the papers, if they may be published in the internet.

The aim of the ProTrain project is effective passenger routing for better utilisation of existing capacities in rail transport. With the help of forecasts and current occupancy information, travellers ...

In the project Gaia-X 4 KI, researchers at the DLR Institute of Transportation Systems have investigated how the open IT infrastructure GAIA-X can support automated and connected driving. In this ...