Concepts of multi-modal electric mobility using local renewable energies

Project Partners:

• Professorship of human factors and ergonomics
• Professorship of Communications Engineering
• Professorship of Power Systems and High-Voltage Engineering

Associate Partners:

• Diamant Fahrradwerke GmbH
• eins energie in sachsen GmbH & Co. KG
• ELICON GmbH
• FusionSystems GmbH
• Sächsisches Kompetenznetzwerk Innvelo
• MUGLER AG
• SIEMENS AG

Funding

 Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) provided by the European Social Fund (ESF)

Duration:

01/2012-12/2014

Topic:

fahrE is the joint project of an interdisciplinary groups of early stage researchers from the fields of Psychology, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Communication Engineering, and Power & High-voltage Engineering.

Today mobility is high rated in everyday life. Most trips, even the short distance ones, are done by car. Fossil fuel resources become scarcer and increasingly expensive.

Hence, sustainable transport systems become increasingly important. Such transport systems could be electric vehicles, mainly charged with renewable energies. The goal of the fahrE project is to develop a sustainable mobility concept for short and medium trips.

Within this framework, a pool of electric vehicles which are interconnected with an intelligent grid will be provided to users. The intelligent grid will regulate charging according to current user needs and the fluctuating availability of renewable energies. It will also provide all necessary information about the vehicles available at specific moments and their charging level. This information will be integrated in a smartphone application (mobility assistant), which will offer suggestions to the user on how to reach his destination in the quickest and most environmentally friendly way.

Focus areas of the chair of Cognitive & Engineering Psychology within the project “fahr E”:

• identification of everyday mobility needs
• identification of global and individual issues for the promotion of acceptance regarding alternative mobility concepts
• evaluation of the Mobility Assistant during development
• evaluate the implemented concept