Just recently on the road in public traffic in the Ilmenau real-world laboratory and a much-noticed technical highlight at the in Erfurt’s COMCENTER Brühl on March 27 and 28: Ilmenau’s highly automated research vehicle P:Mover. For further expanding smart, sustainable and socially just mobility, especially in rural regions, is not only the goal of the City of Ilmenau and the Thuringian Center for Mobility (ThIMo) at TU Ilmenau, but also of the Thuringian Mobility Network (TMN), which was founded in 2024.
The conference, organized by Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thüringen mbH (LEG) on behalf of the Thuringian Ministry of Digital and Infrastructure (TMDI) and featuring a "mobility market", presented the multi-layered results of the TMN working groups as well as the current status of the Thuringia 2030 integrated cycle timetable and the federal research project "MOVEwell".
As one of around 50 stakeholders in the Thuringian Mobility Network and an active member of WG 1 "Transport infrastructure and mobility in the context of spatial development", ThIMo Director Prof. Matthias Hein and Prof. Uwe Plank-Wiedenbeck from the Bauhaus University Weimar presented the research and development project "Mobility network for valuable rural living spaces" - MOVEwell for short - which was one of four projects to receive funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as recently as autumn 2024. The inter-municipal project consortium is coordinated by the European Digital Innovation Hub Thuringia at the Bauhaus University Weimar. It is creating the conditions for better accessibility between the districts, developing economically and ecologically sustainable mobility concepts, especially for rural areas, and preparing a Thuringian model for sustainable mobility together with other state initiatives.
Like its predecessor project P:Mover, the project is part of an entire project family in which ThIMo is developing innovative mobility solutions for rural areas together with its research and development partners from science, industry, public transport companies and Thuringian districts and cities. Prof. Matthias Hein:
With the expertise and technological possibilities available in Thuringia, we want to jointly take on a leading role for autonomous driving in public transport in rural areas.
Further information on the MOVEwell project: www.mobilitaet-thueringen.de/movewell
