Sommer, Carsten
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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer
Dean of Studies | Head of the Department of Transport Planning and Transport Systems
- Telephone
- +49 561 804-3381
- c.sommer[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
- Location
- Mönchebergstraße 7
34125 Kassel
- Room
- Ingenieurwissenschaften III, Room 2110
- Consultation Hours
By arrangement
Career
1973 | Born in Duderstadt, district of Göttingen |
1992 - 1997 | Studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, graduated in 1997 |
1996 | Study visit to Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA |
Jan. 1998 to Aug. 2004 | Research assistant at the Institute of Transportation and Urban Planning at the TU Braunschweig |
July 2002 | Doctorate at the Department of Civil Engineering at the TU Braunschweig |
Apr. 2003 to Sep. 2003 | Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the TU Braunschweig for the course "Urban Transport Planning" |
Nov. 2003 to July 2004 | Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences for the course "Traffic Engineering" |
Aug. 2004 to April 2010 | Research assistant at WVI Prof. Dr. Wermuth Verkehrsforschung und Infrastrukturplanung GmbH, Braunschweig |
since May 2010 | Head of the Department of Transport Planning and Transport Systems at the University of Kassel |
| 2018 | Awarded the Feuchtinger-Wehner Memorial Medal by the Road and Transportation Research Association "for his outstanding scientific, theoretical and practical work in the fields of road and transportation planning, design and operation" |
Fields of work
- Integrated transport planning
- Public transport systems
- Transportation economics
- Traffic surveys (conception, implementation, evaluation)
- Traffic causation research in passenger traffic
Memberships (selection)
- Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
- German Transportation Research Society (DVWG)
- World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
- MoWiN.net e.V. - Mobility Economy North Hesse [Board of Directors]
- Kassel Institute for Sustainability
- Environmental Network of the University of Kassel
- Member of various committees of the German Road and Transport Research Association (FGSV):
- Head of Working Committee 1.6 "Public Transport",
- Head of the "Public Transport" working group in the HBS,
- Member of the ad hoc group "Application and adaptation of FGSV regulations in the field of
transport to meet climate protection targets",- Member of Commission 4 "Urban Transport Research Program",
- Member of Steering Committee 1 "Transport Planning",
- Member of Working Committee 3.13 "Quality of Traffic Flow
" - Scientific advisor to several institutions (including Federal and state ministries, local authorities, transport associations, transport companies)
Prices
| 2016 | German Mobility Award for the "Mobilfalt" project | |
| 2018 | 2nd place at the VCÖ Mobility Award Austria for the procedure for the economic evaluation of municipal transport systems | |
| 2018 | Awarded the Feuchtinger-Wehner commemorative medal of the FGSV | |
| 2020 | Winning of an endowed professorship "Cycling and Local Mobility" at a competition of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure | |
| 2022 | Award for the project MOSACA II - Mobile Working in Satellite Offices Close to Home in Combination with Sustainable Transport Services in Northern Hesse by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection |
Honorary posts (selection)
| since 2011 | Board of directors MoWin.net e.V. - Mobility Economy North Hesse |
| since 2013 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), Deputy Head since 2023 |
| since 2014 | Head of the FGSV Working Committee 1.6 "Public Transport |
| since 2022 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max-Erich-Feuchtinger / Bruno-Wehner Foundation |
| 2013 - 2022 | Chairman of the DVWG Nordhessen |
| 2013 - 2021 | Member of the advisory board of the "Nahverkehrspraxis" trade journal |
| 2011 - 2019 | Head of the FGSV Commission 4 "Urban Transport Research Program |
| 2002 - 2022 | Member of the FGSV Working Committee 1.2 "Survey and Forecasting of Traffic |
| 2015 - 2018 | Member of the research accompanying committee for the traffic survey "Mobility in Germany 2016" |
| 2014 - 2018 | Member of the HOLM (House of Logistics & Mobility) funding committee |
| 2016 - 2018 | Member of the innovation advisory board of the state of Baden-Württemberg for the Black Forest National Park transport concept |
| 2014 - 2016 | Member of the HOLM Advisory Board |
| 2013 - 2014 | Member of the working group mobility/transport within the framework of the accompanying research of the MORO action program regional provision of public services |
Leading functions at the University of Kassel
| since 2013 | Academic Director of the part-time Master's program "Public Transport and Mobility" |
| since 2014 | Chairman of the Examination Board for the degree program "Public Transport and Mobility", since 2021 also for the degree program "Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure " |
| since 2018 | Dean of Studies of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| since 2020 | Member of the founding board of directors of the Kassel Institute for Sustainability |
| since 2021 | Academic Director of the Master's degree program "Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure" |
| 2017 - 2018 | Acting Head of the "Resource Management and Waste Technology" department |
| 2015 - 2018 | Chairman of the Examination Board for the degree programs in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering |
| 2015 - 2018 | Coordinator for the degree programs in Environmental Engineering |
| 2014 - 2017 | 1st Deputy Spokesperson of the Graduate Center for Environmental Research and Teaching at the University of Kassel (GradZ Umwelt) |
| 2012 - 2015 | Junior researcher representative of the "Civil and Environmental Engineering" department |