Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Meeting Point: Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt), main entrance
07:45 – 08:45 Transfers from Hotel Servatius (07:45) and Hotel LESKANpark (08:10) to BASt or individual arrival at BASt
08:45 – 09:30 Registration at BASt
09:30 – 10:00 Opening Ceremony and official welcome by Carl Richter, BASt
10:00 – 10:50 Introduction of the Supporting Organisations by Respective representatives
10:50 – 11:10 Keynote presentation by Mette Møller, DTU
11:10-11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 Cross-cutting Session I: AI in research by Boguslaw Jablkowski, BASt
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions Block 1
Session 1A: Transport economics & policy (incl. labour economics)
Tutors: Leon Straßgütl, Elisabete Arsenio; SC member: Karl-Josef Höhnscheid
- Life cycle environment impact assessment of passenger cars – Marek Carbol, CDV
- Assessing the socioeconomic impacts of an inductive Electric Road System (ERS) for decarbonizing freight transport –
Rubén Flores Gandur, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Quantification of time losses in rail transport due to signal passed at danger (SPAD) – Marek Mrázek, CDV
Session 1B: Transport sustainability, environment & energy
Tutors: Ivo Dostál, Marta Petrova; SC member: Jindřich Friç
- System dynamics modeling for GHG emission reduction at the container terminal of the port of Koper – Marin Hero, University of Ljubljana
- Assessing the heavy rainfall hazards on the German rail network: GIS-based development of a flooding indicator – Frauke von den Driesch, DZSF
- Photovoltaic potential with precision: A CNN-based approach for the assessment along federal highways in Germany – Luca Thomas, BASt
Session 1C: Transport safety, travel behaviour & active mobility
Tutors: Jiří Ambros, Alexandra Fort; SC member: Lila Gaitanidou
- Vehicle Restraint Systems as a special solution for the use at junctions –
An overview of application-specific requirements in Germany – Tobias Berg, BASt - Impact of using rural roads crash modification factors on urban road safety assessments – Elvis Chia Ngwah, Sapienza University of Rome
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions Block 2
Session 2A: Transport economics & policy (incl. labour economics)
Tutors: Tobias Panwinkler, Leon Straßgütl; SC member: Karl-Josef Höhnscheid
- Emerging technologies in new mobility services: Opportunities and challenges from stakeholders’ perspectives – Diana Naranjo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Effectiveness of the Dutch road safety investment incentive 2020-2030 –
Sarah Gebhard, SWOV
Session 2B: Transport sustainability, environment & energy
Tutors: Marta Petrova, Ivo Dostál; SC member: Jindřich Friç
- Calculating the societal optimisation index (SOI) of electric bus rapid transit (EBRT) innovations – Iliana Anapali, HIT
- Space as a social product? – Evaluating social representations in public participation within transport planning – Maria Levints, DZSF
Session 2C: Transport safety, travel behaviour & active mobility
Tutors: Elisabeth Shi, Sandra Vieira; SC member: Ursula Blume
- Acceptance of autonomous shuttles for school and leisure trips from parents’ perspective – Kristina Goos, DLR
- Benchmarking human performance for automatic train operation – Insights from the analysis of reaction times – Baris Cogan, TU Berlin
- Fitness to drive with Alzheimer’s disease – A longitudinal study – Fabiënne Schmidt, SWOV
17:30 Transfer BASt – Hotel LESKANpark and Hotel Servatius or individual transfer to other hotels
19:15 – 21:30 Formal Dinner: Aubeles Restaurant, Gemarkenstraße 173, 51069 Köln
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Meeting Point: Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt), FTVA
07:45 – 08:45 Transfers from Hotel Servatius (07:45) and Hotel LESKANpark (08:10) to BASt or individual arrival at BASt
09:00 – 10:30 Parallel Sessions Block 3
Session 3A: Transport economics & policy (incl. labour economics)
Tutors: Elisabete Arsenio, Tobias Panwinkler; SC member: Felix Heinl
- Monocentric or polycentric? The role of public transport networks in shaping cities – Ola Qasseer, KTI
- Strategic conversations with public transport operators: exploring collaboration towards future urban transport systems – Alberto Rojas Rivero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Session 3B: Transport engineering (incl. road & railway infrastructures)
Tutors: Mehdi Kalantari, Kalliopi Anastassiadou; SC member: Eckhard Roll
- Pavement monitoring with MEMS accelerometer sensors, a low-cost wireless approach – Nicky Andre Prabatama, UGE
- Investigating the water evaporation behavior of porous asphalt for optimizing its cooling potential in urban areas – ChenSong, UGE
- Development of skid resistance of pavements over time – Ondřej Machel, CDV
Session 3C: Transport safety, travel behaviour & active mobility
Tutors: Marta Petrova, Elisabeth Shi; SC member: Mette Møller
- Influence of infotainment use on driving behaviour – A semi-naturalistic driving study – Maya Vervoort, Vias Institute
- “I thought it was a logo” – A co-simulation study on interaction between drivers and pedestrians and HMI – Stina Larsson, VTI
- Off the rails or on track? Perception of safety culture in the German railway sector – Luise Ross, DZSF
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 Cross-cutting Session II: Methodological approaches in publication of research by Professor Markus Oeser, BASt
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 Parallel Sessions Block 4
Session 4A: Transport safety, travel behaviour & active mobility
Tutors: Elisabeth Shi, Jiří Ambros; SC member: Lila Gaitanidou
- Effects of tram warning application on automated shuttle bus and tram interaction – Nino Chkhartishvili, VTT
- Understanding active mobility use through objective characteristics and satisfaction of residential neighborhoods and user’s attitudes –
Irene Sitohang, UGE
Session 4B: Transport engineering (incl. road & railway infrastructures)
Tutors: Kalliopi Anastassiadou, Mehdi Kalantari; SC member: Eckhard Roll
- Comparative analysis of deep learning and traditional machine learning models for multiclass damage detection in bridge infrastructure –
Mohamed Abdelillah Fidma, UGE - A review and classification of multi-criteria decision-making methods for highway asset management – Yiyao Xu, Politecnico di Torino
Session 4C: Transport safety, travel behaviour & active mobility
Tutors: Alexandra Fort, Marta Petrova; SC member: Sandra Vieira
- Refining signalling technology for efficient ETCS Level 2 operation – Efficient use of the European Train Control System (ETCS) – Richard Kretzschmar, DZSF
- Towards runtime monitoring of spatial system properties of automated driving functions using abstract scene graphs – Ishan Saxena, DLR
14:45 – 15:05 Welcome address from the Federal Ministry of Transport by Karola Lambeck, BMV
15:15 – 16:30 Cross-cutting Session III: Tour-de-BASt
16:30 Transfer to Hotel LESKANpark and Hotel Servatius or individual transfer to other hotels
17:30 Transfer from Hotel LESKANpark and Hotel Servatius to Cologne
18:30 – 20:00 Guided City Tour Cologne (cancelled due to Cologne city center evacuation to neutralize WWII unexploded bombs)
20:15 Informal Dinner in Cologne: Brauwelt Köln
Thursday, 5 June 2025
Meeting Point: Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt), FTVA
07:45 – 08:45 Transfers from Hotel Servatius (07:45) and Hotel LESKANpark (08:10) to BASt or individual arrival at BASt
09:00 – 10:00 Parallel Sessions Block 5
Session 5A: Transport logistics & freight
Tutors: Jose Holguin-Veras, Kalliopi Anastassiadou; SC member: Jan Andersson
- Development of a dataset of LiDAR pointclouds for flexible vehicle classification approaches –
Guillermo Sanchez Guitierrez-Cabello, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Session 5B: Transport safety, travel behaviour & active mobility
Tutors: Alexandra Fort, Jiří Ambros; SC member: Mette Møller
- Cyclist safety assessment: Integrating bicycle simulator and virtual reality for risk evaluation of road segments – Lama Ayad, UGE
- A microscopic model for simulating free riding speed dynamics in bicycle traffic – Guillermo Pérez Castro, VTI
10:15 – 10:30 Group photo
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Cross-cutting Session IV: EU Projects by Timo Hoffmann, BASt
12:00 – 13:00 Closing Ceremony / Awards by Professor Markus Oeser, BASt
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 End of the YRS 2025 and transfer to Cologne main station (optional)