Project

SiME

System Innovations for Mobility and Energy in the Metropolis

EnergyMobility

Up to now, the implementation of the energy and mobility revolution has fallen significantly short of the defined expectations and it is difficult to successfully introduce innovations in these fields to the market. The objective of the project is a stronger intermeshing of the various research and development activities in the areas of mobility and energy.

Starting Point

Up to now, the implementation of the energy and mobility revolution has fallen significantly short of the defined expectations and it is difficult to successfully introduce innovations in these fields to the market. This despite the existence of a whole series of components for the regional energy and mobility systems in the Ruhr Area, which different actors have been occasionally able to develop, test, and in part, sustainably establish. In order for the individual parts to intermesh with each other, it is necessary to provide orientational knowledge to obtain a better understanding of the barriers and resistance that must be overcome.

Our Solution

The objective of the project is a stronger intermeshing of the various research and development activities in the areas of mobility and energy. Instead of developing these activities independently from one another, in the future, the different technology and application areas should all be brought together. SiME pursues a system theoretic approach to study the energy- and mobility-oriented reconstruction of metropolitan regions; the studies focus on the conditions relevant for the implementation of system innovations. For the innovation areas of heating, mobility, and hydrogen, the project team reconstructed case studies with important actors in the regional innovation scene in order to define barriers and resistance, as well as to provide stimulus. Ultimately, a practice-oriented design tool should be developed and tested using the example of the Ruhr Metropolis.

Funding ID

Fachhochschule Dortmund – University of Applied Sciences and Arts: 13FH0E11IA

Westphalian University of Applied Sciences: 13FH0E12IA

Supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Project Duration

2017 – 2022

Key Areas

Transformation of the heat supply system
Transformation of the mobility system
The role of hydrogen in the energy and mobility revolution
Innovation barriers and resistance in the transformation of the energy and mobility systems