01.09.2021 Source: Internationales Verkehrswesen Urban Air Mobility - reality in the coming decade! Statement by Prof. Hartmut Fricke, Head of the Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics, on "International Transportation". He pleads for: "Think Made in Germany through to the end - and realise it". >Read more
25.08.2021 Source: mdr AKTUELL How useful are cargo bikes? Everyone is talking about cargo bikes right now - even in the Bundestag election campaign. mdr AKTUELL spoke with traffic engineer Sven Lißner from the TU Dresden about the topic. Contribution until 01.09.2021 online. >Read more
25.08.2021 Source: tagesschau.de Robotaxis on the streets of San Francisco A next step towards self-driving cars? Google's sister company Waymo is piloting robotaxis through the streets of the US metropolis San Francisco. >Read more
17.08.2021 Source: Deutschlandfunk Will electromobility solve our traffic problems? In Deutschlandfunk's "Streitkultur", transport ecologist Prof. Udo Becker, TU Dresden, and battery researcher Prof. Martin Winter, University of Münster, meet with their arguments for and against electromobility. Rating: worth listening to >Read more
17.08.2021 Source: SMWA Rail is coming back in Saxony Offensive of the Free State for the activation of disused railway lines: Expert opinion prepared on 22 Saxon railway lines that could potentially be activated. >Read more
22.08.2021 Source: mdr AKTUELL/mdr.de Gas and brake again and again Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk asked traffic experts how ecologically sensible speed signs are. MDR also spoke with Udo Becker, traffic ecologist at the TU Dresden (minutes 0:39-01:33; 02:51-03:15). Article available online until 29.08.21. >Read more
02.08.2021 Source: INGENIEUR.de Extremely efficient lithium sulphur battery Researchers in Berlin have used X-ray vision to discover a crucial disruptive factor in promising electricity storage devices: migrating polysulphides >Read more
02.08.2021 Source: BMVI One million electric vehicles on German roads for the first time Today, there are about 60 percent more electric vehicles on German roads than at the end of 2020. Among the one million electrically powered vehicles, the Federal Motor Transport Authority counts 54 percent purely electric vehicles and 46 percent plug-in hybrids. >Read more
22.07.2021 Source: SMWA Border region: New railway line Dresden-Prague and autonomous driving The Czech Republic and Saxony are holding talks on joint projects for cross-border transport links and autonomous mobility. >Read more
15.07.2021 Source: MDR.de EU Commission: From 2035 no new cars with combustion engines MDR.de asked experts about the topic, including Prof. Frank Atzler, Chair of Combustion Engineering and Drive Technology, at the Transport and Traffic Sciences of TU Dresden. >Read more