The Transport and Spatial Planning Institute
The Transport and Spatial Planning Institute was established in 2003 as an academic section of the Transport and Communication Department of the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and was confirmed by the Thuringian Ministry for Culture in 2004. Since October 2011 Dr Florian Heinitz has been scientific director of the institution.
The institute serves practice-oriented, interdisciplinary academic research as well as the transfer of know-how in the fields of transport and spatial planning.
Major aspects of the work are the exploration of traffic causes and impacts, general interference of geography, mobility and traffic behavior as well as towns and country development. Besides that it offers concrete investigations of space, analyses of accessibility or methods of assessment. The institute works to equal amounts within the fundamental as well as the contract research.
It provides assistance with the realization of concepts and the implementation of innovative solutions, as it is active in the fields of methodology consultancy, cooperation management or the hosting of workshops and conferences.
The institute has already worked successfully in cooperation with European institutions, Federal and State Ministries as well as their executive bodies, special-purpose associations and representative bodies, economic organizations, consultancy companies as well as scientific institutions in the research group.
