Details about Axel Wolfermann

Main topics

• Traffic planning and traffic engineering with a focus on urban traffic
• Sustainability in transportation, mobility transition, climate protection
• Bicycle traffic planning
• Commercial traffic
• signal control

Career history

Professor of Transportation at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2017.

Studied civil engineering, after completing his doctorate in traffic engineering at TU Darmstadt, he spent a year as a postdoc at the University of Tokyo, Advanced Mobility Research Center, and at Nagoya University. From 2011-2017 employee at the Institute of Transport Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR ) in Berlin in the Department of Commercial Transport, Group Leader Modeling of Commercial Transport. Research on the evaluation of measures to increase the sustainability of commercial transport and ICT in transport (Intelligent Transport Systems).

Member of various national and international expert committees in the transportation sector(FGSV, WCTRS).

We have set out the department's main research areas in the field of mobility and transportation on a separate page.

Selection of current and past projects:

• Use of cycling infrastructure with S-Pedelecs
• Separated and Safe Crossing for All Darmstadt(SQUADA)
• System innovation for sustainable development (s:ne)
• LieferradDA - bicycle delivery service for Darmstadt
• Bike Offenbach - Bicycle (road) city Offenbach

A list of my publications can be found under my ORCID or on ResearchGate.

Are you interested in final theses on

• Sustainable transport planning
• bicycle traffic
• Mobility turnaround
• Traffic engineering (traffic signal control etc.)
• Commercial traffic
• Traffic and climate protection

or related areas, please feel free to contact me. I am happy to receive concrete suggestions, also in cooperation with external parties (planning offices, authorities, companies, etc.).