PIER Climate-friendly Mobility

The challenges associated with providing mobility that produces fewer greenhouse gases represent some of the key research questions in the context of climate change. PIER Climate-friendly Mobility therefore focuses on the issue of how mobility can be designed to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and thus be more environmentally friendly. Against this backdrop, PIER Climate-friendly Mobility brings together various research topics from the fields of engineering, natural sciences, business sciences, and social sciences to form an interdisciplinary approach, expanding potential technical solutions to include research into social components.

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Overview

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Collaborative research

PIER Climate-friendly Mobility academics tackled a wide range of research questions concerning “green mobility”, particularly the climate-friendly transportation of people and goods in metropolitan regions, greenhouse gas-free long-distance freight transport, and the question of how intercontinental air and maritime traffic can be made more climate-friendly.

PIER Climate-friendly Mobility, under the leadership of the Hamburg University of Technology and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, builds on many years of collaborative research efforts between various research institutes in Hamburg. In collaboration with its partners – Universität Hamburg, the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services and Helmut Schmidt University – the profile brings together current research questions.

Research activities

On-demand mobility

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On-demand mobility

Universität Hamburg is providing scientific guidance for remo, a pilot project on on-demand mobility in rural areas. It will look at the opportunities for and limits to digitally-driven local transport with a view to how local transport can contribute to a larger transformation of the transport system.

Go to the remo pilot project website (German only)

KoLa

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KoLa

The KoLa project focuses on the potential for flexibility in handling load and loading management in electrified commuter transport. The research team is also developing a coordination platform for the energy distribution network at a depot of Hamburg’s public transportation provider Hamburger Hochbahn.

Research project website (TUHH)

Go to the research project website (Hochbahn, German only)

Go to the research project website (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, German only)

H2Avia

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H2Avia

The H2Avia project takes a holistic look at hydrogen as a sustainable primary energy source in aviation. The project group is working with complex system technologies and architectures that should facilitate the integration of hydrogen into the entire system of aviation.

Go to the H2Avia website (German only)

ALIGHT

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ALIGHT

The ALIGHT projects looks at the Copenhagen airport to develop holistic concepts for aviation in the future. It focuses on the procurement and use of sustainable airplane fuel.

Go to ALIGHT website

BIOCTANE

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BIOCTANE

The goal of the EU BIOCTANE project is to produce climate-neutral, competitive airplane turbine fuel out of organic waste material with high water content, by combining biotechnological and thermochemical procedures to develop an innovative manufacturing procedure.

Go to BIOCTANE website

BELLE

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BELLE

Researchers in BELLE look at a depot of Hamburg’s municipal cleaning providers for solutions related to the challenges of loading infrastructure and load management with a view to the electricity network.

Go to BELLE website

Transfer

The PIER PLUS partners are already involved in the following transfer projects:

In the DTEC.bw project DigiHyPro (project partners HSU, DLR, TUHH, GKN Hydrogen), the entire hydrogen process chain is to be experimentally and digitally mapped on a technical scale, linking the electricity, gas, and mobility sectors.

As part of the „GreenAviation“ project, which is funded by the City of Hamburg, Hereon and TUHH are jointly preparing a study on H₂ infrastructure in industrial production using the example of the Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder site.

In the “HyPoKo” project (BMBF’s “Hydrogen Republic of Germany” ideas competition), UHH, Hereon, and TUHH are working with GKN Hydrogen to develop hydrogen storage systems based on light metal hydride polymer composite materials which are designed to store H₂ at temperatures below 100 °C.