Transportation Planning and Traffic Systems

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The Department of Transport Planning and Transportation Systems in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering is part of the Institute of Transportation at the University of Kassel.
Founded on October 1, 1988, the department has been headed by Prof. Dr. Carsten Sommer since May 2010.

The department represents the two cross-modal disciplines of integrated transport planning and road design as well as the subject area of local public transport in teaching and research.


The research focuses on the following areas:

  • Integrated transportation planning,
  • public transportation systems and
  • transport economics.

Research methods and core competencies are

  • Obtaining and analyzing transport demand data,
  • models for mapping cause-effect relationships in passenger transport (transport demand models) and
  • Development, further development and application of planning procedures.

Management:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer

University of Kassel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Institute of Transportation
Department of Traffic Planning and Transportation Systems
Mönchebergstraße 7
34125 Kassel

Room 2106 - 2115, Engineering III

Office:
Katja Hager
+49 561 804-3382

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