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.
Call for presentations
One of the profile's aims is to develop synergy effects between the research groups active in the metropolitan region and to identify new interdisciplinary issues. To this end, this profile is organizing a full-day lecture event for researchers/promoters in this field on 11 September 2025. Further information, submission of lectures and registration can be found here.
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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, Helmut Schmidt University, Bucerius Law School and HafenCity University – the profile brings together current research questions.
Research activities
Research in the Profile
KoLa
ALIGHT
Bioctane
BELLE
HAWICC
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.
Scientific direction
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Profile spokesperson
Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltschmitt
(TUHH)
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Deputy profile spokesperson