New committee for the professor
Ministry of Transport appoints Petra Schäfer as logistics advisor
Petra K. Schäfer, Professor of Transport Planning at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS), has been appointed as a logistics consultant by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI). The professor at the Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics is thus one of 15 advisors who are to advise the BMVI on the Logistics 2030 innovation program, which was launched in September 2019. The commission includes high-ranking representatives from companies, research and science, as well as representation from the federal states. The first meeting is scheduled to take place on March 24, 2020 at the BMVI in Berlin.
"I am delighted to have been selected as one of only 15 consultants in Germany," says Prof. Dr.-Ing. "I am also looking forward to the challenge facing our team of consultants: To further strengthen and expand Germany's leading global position as a logistics location." Prof. Schäfer is Managing Director of the interdisciplinary ReLUT - Research Lab for Urban Transport. Here, she and her colleagues conduct research in the field of commercial transport and data analysis, develop solutions for the last mile of the logistics chain and analyze and evaluate new mobility solutions such as electromobility and autonomous driving. She can therefore contribute her expertise to the advisory commission.
The declared aim of the Logistics 2030 innovation program is to further strengthen and expand Germany's leading global position as a logistics location. To this end, visions for the logistics sector in 2030 were developed in a comprehensive process for ten strategic fields of action under the leadership of Steffen Bilger, Parliamentary State Secretary at the BMVI. Building on this, concrete measures for innovation, modernization and digitalization were developed to make the freight transport and logistics sector fit for the future. For example, the aim is to enable more transportation and more mobility with less traffic. The areas of action include, for example, digital infrastructures, data processing and platform solutions. One measure in this field is the creation of a future-proof and flexibly expandable data exchange infrastructure, via which innovative new information offerings in the field of mobility and logistics can be easily supplied with the available data offerings. The measures also include the use of artificial intelligence.
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