Application Platform for Intelligent Mobility – research facility for intelligent mobility services

Abstract

Traffic can be seen as a multi-dimensional field of research. Traffic can be best described as a socio-technical system which brings about new challenges for the design of future transportation systems. With its Application Platform for Intelligent Mobility (AIM), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), together with the state of Lower Saxony, the city of Braunschweig and other partners, is creating a unique way of linking up research, development and applications for intelligent transportation and mobility services. This new platform addresses the challenges of traffic research as a multi-dimensional field of research. In the near future AIM will enable users from science, research, development and industry to study a wide range of topics from the highly complex, interlinked world of transportation. For this reason the German Aerospace Center is currently implementing AIM as a toolbox for traffic-related research and design activities. AIM has a wholistic approach towards transportation research which seeks to reduce the gap between simulation and reality, broaden the scope of simulation towards the future of co-operative transportation systems as well as to close the loop towards a more efficient approach of traffic management. As an open and flexible platform AIM targets synergies between different research institutions