Future Mobility Prospects

Mobility of the future is an extraordinarily complex and multi-layered topic, impacting society as a whole, from individuals in their daily routines to the transportation and supporting infrastructures of global goods and supply chains. The Institute of Physics (IOP) and German Physical Society (DPG) come together to explore, on one hand, considerations on future traffic concepts in urban areas and, on the other hand, the rise of completely new approaches for bridging greater distances in passenger and freight traffic while simultaneously reducing environmental pollution by connecting mobility perspectives with sustainability and the green economy. All these areas also offer interesting fields of work for physicists in the development of the fundamentals of the new techniques and technologies required for this or in the modelling and realisation of the process chains. Barbara Lenz, a transport researcher and mobility expert, chairs the discussions between the panel of experts from the UK and Germany. Join Walter Neu (head of the German Hyperloop project - University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer), Marcus Ebert (specialist for infrastructures - Deutsche Bahn) and Giles Perkins (Head of profession and future mobility) for a lively discussion in these exciting topics.