STADT:up

Consortium

Chemnitz University of Technology with the three professorships

• Applied Geropsychology and Cognition (Prof. Dr. Georg Jahn / Dr. Matthias Beggiato)
• Ergonomics and Innovation Management (Prof. Dr. Angelika Bullinger-Hoffmann)
• Communications Engineering (Prof. Dr. Klaus Mößner)

as well as 21 industrial and research partners: CARIAD SE, Mercedes-Benz AG, Opel Automobile GmbH, 3D Mapping Solutions GmbH, Aptiv Services Deutschland GmbH, AVL Deutschland GmbH, Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH, DeepScenario GmbH, DENSO ADAS Engineering Services GmbH, Ergosign GmbH, gestigon GmbH, HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Robert Bosch GmbH, Valeo ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München, TU Darmstadt, TU München.

Funding (Project Number: 19A22006R)

Duration

01/2023 - 06/2026

Topic

STADT:up is a research and development project consisting of 22 companies from the automotive and supplier industry as well as research institutions. Main aim is to develop concepts and pilot applications for continuous automated driving in urban areas. The total budget of the project is 62.8 million euro, of which 33.5 million euros are provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The research at Chemnitz University of Technology is funded with around one million euro.

In the subproject "Human Factors" of STADT:up, the competences of the three TU Chemnitz professorships in the areas of psychology, ergonomics, and sensor data fusion are bundled to investigate comfortable automated driving in urban areas. By handing over the driving task to the automated vehicle, new comfort factors arise such as trust in automation, perceived safety, appropriateness of the driving style, or information about upcoming vehicle maneuvers. The research at TU Chemnitz focusses on detecting discomfort as early as possible and reduce it by providing information and adapting the automated driving style. Studies in the driving simulator as well as a test vehicle aim at finally achieving a pleasant automated driving experience in urban areas.

Contact: Dr. Matthias Beggiato, Cornelia Hollander, Silvio Heß

Project website: www.stadtup-online.de

Publications, talks, poster

Beggiato, M., Hollander, C., Hentschel, M., Bullinger, A. C., & Jahn, G. (in press). Long-term One-year Stability of Discomfort Perception in Automated Driving and Personal Influencing Factors. 8th International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2026), 22.-24.09.2026, Paris. https://ihsed.org/.

Hentschel, M., Hollander, C., Roßner, P., Dettmann, A., & Bullinger, A. C. (2026). Driving style characteristics and user discomfort in urban automated driving: Insights from a context-based comfort dynamics analysis. Applied Ergonomics, 137, 104806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2026.104806.

Enhuber, S., & Mößner, K. (2026). A Camera-Based Approach for Discomfort Detection in Highly Automated Driving. 9th Humanist Virtual Centre of Excellence Conference 2025. Chemnitz, 27.-29. August 2025. https://doi.org/10.60687/2026-0027.

Hollander, C., Beggiato, M., Jahn, G., Roßner, P., Hentschel, M., & Bullinger-Hoffmann, A. (2025). Trust and Driving Experience during Urban Highly Automated Driving: Impact of Driving Styles. 9th Humanist Virtual Centre of Excellence Conference 2025. Chemnitz, 27.-29. August 2025. https://doi.org/10.60687/2025-0197.

Beggiato, M., Hollander, C., Hentschel, M., Roßner, P., Bullinger, A. C., & Jahn, G. (2025). Wer hat Angst vorm automatisierten Fahren? Kamerabasierte Emotionserkennung in potenziell unkomfortablen automatisierten Fahrmanövern. In T. Petzoldt, M. Baumann, V. Schmidt, & F. W. Siebert (Eds.), Book of Abstracts - 5. Kongress der Fachgruppe Verkehrspsychologie (pp. 10–11). Technische Universität München. https://doi.org/10.25368/2025.007.

Beggiato, M., Hollander, C., Enhuber, S., Moessner, K., & Jahn, G. (2024). Typology of Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Uncomfortable Automated Driving Operations. In G. Praetorius, C. Sellberg & R. Patriarca (eds.) Advances in Human Factors of Transportation. AHFE (2024) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 148. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005204.

Beggiato, M., Hollander, C., Krems, J., & Jahn, G. (2024). Typologie emotionaler und Verhaltensreaktionen auf automatisierte knappe Auffahrten. 53rd DGPs Congress / 15th ÖGP Conference, September 16-19, 2024, Vienna, Austria, (pp. 1572-1573). https://doi.org/10.2440/0003.