On 4 January 2025, our colleague of many years, Prof Dr Robert Sausen, passed away unexpectedly at the age of just 69. Robert Sausen was born in Lissingen in the Eifel in 1955 and attended the Cusanus ...

In order to strengthen cooperation within the DLR institutes and facilities in the fields of space, aeronautics and transport, make optimum use of synergy effects and avoid thematic duplication, the ...

Our next institute seminar will take place on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 at 2:15 p.m. with a guest from Japan. DLR researcher Marco Sagliano from the Institute of Space Systems in Bremen has been ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

In the 5G Living Lab, DLR and the Smart Rail Connectivity Campus (SRCC) moved a remote-controlled train through the Ore Mountains. The train driver was in a control centre in Braunschweig and the ...

The Test Bed Lower Saxony actually covers the Braunschweig-Wolfsburg-Hanover region, but thanks to the mobile measurement station, researchers can also record and directly analyse traffic at any other ...

In road traffic conflicts can only be resolved and trusting co-operation can only be achieved through good communication. Cooperative vehicles and intelligent infrastructures are a good approach to ...

The DLR Institute of Transportation Systems is dedicated to the comprehensive investigation of current traffic conditions. Using cameras and sensors, traffic on motorways (Test Bed Lower Saxony) and ...

The institute members are marked with bold letters. Under the given Links you will find the abstracts of the papers and if necessary also the papers, if they may be published in the internet.

In the project Gaia-X 4 KI, researchers at the DLR Institute of Transportation Systems have investigated how the open IT infrastructure GAIA-X can support automated and connected driving. In this ...

The aim of the ProTrain project is effective passenger routing for better utilisation of existing capacities in rail transport. With the help of forecasts and current occupancy information, travellers ...

The operation of traffic lights has a significant impact on how smoothly traffic flows and how high the risk of traffic jams is. This is where the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has come in and ...