Mobility of tomorrow

Conference provides new impulses

Getting from A to B in your own car is usually the most comfortable form of transport but by no means the most climate-friendly. The mobility of tomorrow will probably look different and was the topic of the conference by the same name in September 2022. It was hosted by Hochschule BonnRhein-Sieg in cooperation with the Institute for Technology, Resource and Energy-efficient Engineering (TREE) and the Institute for Digital Consumption (IVI). More than 200 visitors took part on site or via live streaming to learn about new approaches ranging from the 9-euros ticket to corporate mobility management and data-driven solutions for selecting a means of transportation.

The university space offered four parallel thematic tracks for presenting one’s own projects on the topic, such as “MobilCharta5”. In this track, researchers, together with the city of Overath as a partner, are looking for creative mobility solutions for rural regions with a lack of public transport. Transport by volunteer-run community buses is being tested, for instance.

Bike wash or coffee bike

While experts exchanged views at the Sankt Augustin campus, interested members of the public could visit the exhibition area in a neighbouring car park. Companies, municipalities, clubs and associations presented what they had on offer as well as ideas on the topic of mobility. This included a diverse range of options, such as a hydrogen-powered bus, cargo bikes and a bicycle washing system.

Both formats, inside and outside, followed a networking approach under the common umbrella of the first “Regional Intercommunal Mobility Day”. The Network for Intelligent Mobility (NiMo) and the cities of Sankt Augustin, Siegburg, Königswinter and Troisdorf were involved in the organisation. Paul Bossauer, research associate at H-BRS, considers this overarching approach to be particularly important: “Municipalities often only consider mobility within their own borders. But people frequently move beyond municipal boundaries.” For this reason, intelligent solutions that see the big picture must be found for the mobility of tomorrow – so there was plenty of material for the already planned, even larger second Intercommunal Mobility Day.

More about the event 2023 ȹ https://interkommunaler-mobilitätstag.de

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