Transportation and mobility

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

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Personal mobility

Mobility with or without your own car - wishful thinking or reality? Fraunhofer is working on solutions that enable individual mobility to be combined seamlessly with public transport services. Information technology/logistics solutions pave the way for intelligent networking across all modes of transport. 

Projects

  • A mobile guide for buses and trains

    If people had access to a fully-fledged system to help them navigate public transport, it could persuade many drivers to switch to their local trains, buses and trams. Researchers are busy developing an application that will enable passengers to use a cell phone to navigate their way through the public transport network.

  • Cars and signs in dialog

    Motorists will soon be able to make detours around traffic jams, avoid accidents and save energy on the basis of pinpointed information. New simulation software is helping in the development of intelligent traffic and driver assistance systems.

  • When cars talk to one another

    Image: The new C2X system

    Networking vehicles with one another and with the infrastructure gives the driver information on the situation beyond his or her field of vision and warns the driver about accidents or traffic jams.

Further information

  • Fraunhofer Rail - Passenger transport

    In the realm of public passenger transport, especially on railways, offers Fraunhofer Rail a wide spread know-how for its customers. Planning and operating of the passenger traffic are among other aspects part of the projects the Institutes of Fraunhofer Rail are working on with its partners from politics and economy. A special focus is on the development of solutions, which base on latest IT technologies.