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Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) - Firefighting with the Ehang or take the Volocopter to reach the airport.
Mentoring: Lippoldt.With the help of a literature research, an overview of the vehicle concepts for air cabs presented so far and the possible flight missions is to be made. Which use cases are targeted by the manufacturers and which flight missions would be relevant from a transport perspective. In addition to the classification of vehicle types and thus feasible flight missions, the aim of the work is to research and assess market maturity. In addition to literature research, background discussions can also be held with experts.
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Available Bachelors' Theses
Here are the available bachelor thesis topics structured by the following thematic ares of the Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control:
Topic Category | Description |
Effects and Impacts of Mobility | mobility pricing, LCA, impact assessments, mobility coins |
Experimental Studies | data collection with e.g. field tests, surveys, test intersection, simulator |
Transportation Systems and Concept | Public & private transport, micro-mobility, shared and/or autonomous fleets, ropeways, UAM/AAM, car sharing, ride haling, pedestrians and bike traffic, ... |
Mobility Data Modeling and Simulation | AI based, large scale data modeling; methodical approaches, traffic flow, Macro- and microscopic simulations (Sumo, Visum, Vissim, Aimsun, ...) |
Traffic Control and Management | traffic light control, managed lanes, lane free, Urban traffic control |
It is possible to hand in your own topic proposal - Dr.-Ing. Antonios Tsakarestos is pleased to receive them.
The topics are provided with one or more of the following icons, these icons illustrate the main applied method:
- Simulation: 🖥️
- Experiment: 🧪
- Concept: 💭
- Programming: 💻
- Survey: 📝
- Data analysis: 📈
Effects and impacts of mobility
Experimentelle Studien
Verkehrssysteme und -konzepte
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Designing a Concept of Evaluation for Urban Air Mobility Transportation Systems.
Mentoring: Peksa.The thesis should evaluate and improve a draft concept of evaluation for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems. These include a review of proposed KPIs and indicators (based on DIN EN 13816). Next, the improved concept of evaluation should be applied to evaluate a simulated UAM service (the model will be provided). Recommendations for the industry and traffic planners should be derived.
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Evaluation of the mobility-related consequences of event strategies for large concerts.
Mentoring: Glöckl, Fehn.Adele's concerts in Munich in summer 2024 attracted around 750,000 visitors. Some of them traveled on flights lasting several hours. This is just one example of different strategies at concert events, either the artists come to the audience or the audience comes to the artist. As part of the Bachelor's thesis, these strategies are to be analyzed and evaluated in terms of their mobility-related effects with a focus on greenhouse gas emissions. From this, indications for a sustainable event strategy and accompanying measures to reduce the effects are to be derived.
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Mobility Data Modeling and Simulation
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Potentials of the use of data from connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in urban traffic.
Mentoring: Ilic, Zhang.What potential does the use of data from connected and automated vehicles (ego-perspective & surrounding traffic) offer in terms of safety and efficiency in urban traffic? Furthermore, the question arises how these potentials can be evaluated simulatively. In addition to a literature research, a concept for the simulative evaluation of the potentials of data utilization of connected and automated vehicles in urban traffic will be developed within the scope of this thesis.
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Testbed for traffic simulation.
Mentoring: Lindner.In this thesis, three goals are pursued: (1) to duplicate data and models from an existing (online) platform for (specified) offline studies, (2) to implement procedures to incorporate real-time data into testbed(s), and (3) to investigate data aggregation with respect to traffic control.
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Current methods for mode choice modeling.
Mentoring: Müller, Lippoldt.This bachelor thesis focuses on mode choice modeling and examines current statistical estimation methods. The focus is on the state-of-the-art approaches, the data used, and estimation techniques. Additionally, methods from literature that incorporate more than traditional survey data are analyzed, considering new data sources like mobile phone data or app tracking. Another key aspect is the integration of new mobility options, such as e-scooters, bikesharing, and carsharing, into mode choice models to better understand their impact on travel behavior.
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Current approaches of destination choice modelling.
Mentoring: Müller.In this thesis, the student examines ways of modeling destination choice of people. Destination choice models are a type of trip distribution or spatial interaction model which are formulated as discrete choice models, typically logit models. They can be thought of as a generalization of the traditional and widely used gravity model. The thesis will study different approaches and use a small test data set to conduct a destination choice model.
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Traffic Control and Management
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Literature review of the characteristics of traffic with low lane discipline including ways of modelling it.
Mentoring: Stüger.The focus of this work is a literature review of the characteristics of traffic with low lane discipline ("lane-less traffic") and a familiarization with one or more simulation programs for microscopic traffic flow simulation. Finally, the results and experiences must be presented and discussed in a structured way.
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Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Development of Innovative Driving Behaviour Models.
Mentoring: Stüger.Based on a literature review, it is discussed whether artificial intelligence methods are suitable for calibrating a microscopic driving behaviour model. A conventional car following and lane change model can be used as a basis. Alternatively, a lane-free driving behaviour model for highly connected and automated driving can be used.
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Literature Review on Lane-Free Traffic Control Strategies.
Mentoring: Sekeran.In this thesis, the student will conduct a comprehensive literature review and lane-free traffic control strategies. The review includes analysing the concept of each lane-free traffic strategy and to analyse the differences between these strategies and how each of them impacts traffic efficiency.
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