Urban and traffic planner Helmut Holzapfel admitted to acatech

Helmut Holzapfel, born in Göttingen in 1950, was a university lecturer at the University of Kassel until 2015 and has since headed the Center for Mobility Culture in Kassel. He has also held teaching positions in London (University College London) and in Vienna and currently teaches at the University of Dortmund. Holzapfel is considered one of Germany's most distinguished urban and transportation planners. The focus of his work is on an ecologically oriented transport future. He is editor of the journals "Verkehr und Technik" and "World Transport Policy and Practice." Together with experts from Copenhagen, Lisbon and Budapest, he is working on European Commission research projects dealing with environmentally oriented transport planning. In this context, Holzapfel is committed to a resource-conserving, livable and climate-neutral urban future.

acatech represents the German technical sciences at home and abroad in a self-determined, independent and public interest-oriented manner. It advises policymakers and society on matters relating to the technical sciences and technology policy. According to acatech, its goals are the transfer of knowledge between science and industry and the promotion of young scientists. The approximately 500 members of acatech are renowned scientists from research, teaching and industry. They are admitted to the academy on the basis of their scientific achievements and reputation.