At this year's Mobility Week exhibition mile in Görlitz, institutions from research and practice will be presenting the future of mobility in Upper Lusatia. The Mile serves as a platform for discussing current research results and pilot projects, strengthening cooperation with local authorities and industry and providing impetus for future developments. The aim is to present innovative and sustainable mobility solutions to an interested public and to test them in practice.

In this context, the Chair of Vehicle Mechatronics presented the WALEMObase research project. WALEMObase stands for hydrogen, automation, lightweight construction and mobility, the “base” for the fundamental research into the use of the vehicle in rural areas. The aim is to integrate a combined hydrogen-battery-hybrid system into a compact automated shuttle vehicle. The result should be a long-distance energy and heat supply system for the comfortable, safe and sustainable operation of hydrogen-based vehicles. In addition, data sets and scenarios for highly automated driving in rural areas are to be created. The construction and test operation in Lusatia as well as the direct exchange will provide Lusatian companies with low-threshold access to high technologies such as automated driving, hydrogen-based drives and lightweight construction with fiber composite technology and additive manufacturing in order to develop their own products and solutions for this and test them in application.

The European Mobility Week (EMW) is a Europe-wide campaign that takes place every year from September 16 to 22 and is coordinated in Germany by the Federal Environment Agency. Numerous cities and research institutions in Saxony also take part in order to raise awareness of sustainable transport concepts and develop environmentally friendly mobility solutions.