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08/27/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Project of the University of Kassel among Top 5 at Austrian Mobility Award

A research project of the University of Kassel has been selected by a jury of experts as one of the top 5 in the Mobility Award 2018 of the association "Mobilität mit Zukunft" (VCÖ, stands for the old name Verkehrsclub Österreich). This is a project for recording and allocating the costs of different modes of transport in a municipality according to their cause.

Image: Sonja Rode/Light Catch Photography
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer, Head of the Department of Transport Planning and Systems, had developed a tool in the project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure as part of the National Cycling Plan that enables municipalities to comprehensively determine the direct and indirect costs incurred by car, truck, public transport, pedestrian and bicycle traffic. As a result, he made it to the shortest list of this Austrian competition.

Sommer's project will be presented in the VCÖ project database at mobilitaetsprojekte.vcoe.at from fall 2018. At the festive VCÖ Mobility Award ceremony on September 18, 2018 in Vienna, Sommer's project will be mentioned as a top five project. Sommer's project is among the top five submissions in the category "Scientific Research and Studies".

The VCÖ Mobility Award is Austria's largest competition for sustainable mobility. It is awarded in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Sustainability and ÖBB. The motto of this year's competition was "Society.Change.Mobility". There were 321 submissions in the 2018 run.


Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer
University of Kassel
Head of Department
Department of Transport Planning and Systems
Tel.: +49 561 804-3381
E-mail: c.sommer[at]uni-kassel[dot]de