sustainable change

sustainable mobility

Transport causes considerable pollution of the environment and risks to human health. Conventional motor vehicles emit pollutants and pollute the air, water and soil. Yet mobility is an important prerequisite for economic and social development. To limit environmental pollution, more environmentally friendly mobility options must be developed. The term "Verkehrswende" refers to the transformation of the transport system necessary to achieve this. This involves not only the development of new transportation technologies, but above all a different mobility behaviour, intermodal links and new control and usage concepts. Peer innovations may play an important role, for example, for individual mobility planning, the shared use of vehicles or the development of sustainable means of transport such as cargo bikes or electric vehicles.

  • Building instructions and experiences with cargo bikes are shared online.
  • Numerous applications for sustainable mobility build on OpenStreetMap.
  • OpenDataCam is a do-it-yourself technology for traffic monitoring.

Pictures:

Cargo bike: André Frieboese [CC-BY-SA 2.0]

Gutau-map and hiking display: Holger Schöner [CC-BY-SA 2.0]

OpenDataCam: Creative Applications Network