Cross-Institute Journal Publication “A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Sustainable Technical Design of a Connected, Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicle Fleet for Inner Cities” Published
2024/09/20
As part of the “Campus FreeCity” project, the Institute of Railway Systems and Railway Technology, the Institute of Mechatronic Systems and the Institute of Ergonomics have published a joint journal publication.

The article addresses the issue of increasing traffic from personal motorized vehicles in cities, which leads to congestion, noise, air pollution, and land consumption. A promising solution is an innovative mobility concept based on a connected, automated, shared, and electric vehicle fleet, such as the EDAG CityBots () developed in the Campus FreeCity project ( https://www.edag-citybot.de/en/), which could replace personal motorized vehicles in urban centers. This paper analyzes the various key technical system components of the proposed mobility concept and optimizes them in terms of economic, ecological, and social sustainability dimensions to maximize the overall system’s sustainability and support the transition to a more sustainable urban transportation system. The article also highlights how multidisciplinarity contributes to different sustainability dimensions, explores their interdependencies, and emphasizes that early integration of sustainability aspects in technical optimization is key to enabling a more sustainable shift in transportation. https://www.campusfreecity.de/
The article was published in August in the Special Issue “Design Theory, Method and Control of Intelligent and Safe Vehicles” of the peer-reviewed open-access World Electric Vehicle Journal by MDPI. Paul Rieger, Arturo Crespo, and Andreas Oetting are involved from the Institute for Railway Engineering, Paul Heckelmann, Tobias Peichl, and Stephan Rinderknecht from the Institute for Mechatronic Systems, and Sarah Schwindt-Drews, Nina Theobald, and Bettina Abendroth from the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. The article is available at this link: https://www.mdpi.com/2032-6653/15/8/360.
Publication:
Rieger, P., Heckelmann, P., Peichl, T., Schwindt-Drews, S., Theobald, N., Crespo, A., Oetting, A., Rinderknecht, S. & Abendroth, B. (2024). A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Sustainable Technical Design of a Connected, Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicle Fleet for Inner Cities. World Electric Vehicle Journal, 15(8), 360. https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj15080360