The DFG's Collaborative Research Centres are among the most important research funding programmes in Germany. They enable challenging, interdisciplinary and long-term research projects. The TUM School of Engineering and Design was successful in the current selection round with “AgiMo: Data-supported agile planning for responsible mobility”.
AgiMo is supervised by Prof. Dr Klaus Bogenberger, Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control at the Department of Mobility Systems Engineering (ED), and Prof. Dr Allister Loder, Professorship of Mobility Policy, and deals with questions such as: How can the forecasting and management of traffic flows be improved? And how can the various interests of traffic participants be taken into account in a more balanced way than before? The AgiMo Collaborative Research Center aims to develop new methods for agile mobility planning using a comprehensive approach based on data and computer models. New criteria for responsible mobility based on the so-called 4F principles - Function, Form, Fairness and Forever - are to be defined and applied. On this basis, the researchers want to develop a digital twin in order to make data and models available open source. They also want to investigate how all relevant stakeholders can participate in the design of evidence-based future scenarios. To this end, the technical and social sciences are working closely together at AgiMo.
In addition to AgiMo, another Collaborative Research Centre at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has been selected: "Simulation-based learning in higher education: from process diagnostics to personalised intervention (SHARP)".
The German Research Foundation has established a total of 13 new Collaborative Research Centres. They will initially be funded for three years and nine months from October 2025 with a total of around 177 million euros.
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