CURTAIN CALL The AIT experts' research services for our customers and partners meet with great international recognition. This has been proven by numerous awards and distinctions. That also contributes to AIT being a first point of contact in major multilateral projects.
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HERMES 2019 Verkehrs.Logistik Award for AIT project The "GrazLog" project, submitted by the city of Graz and managed by AIT, received the HERMES 2019 Verkehrs.Logistik Award [Transport.Logistics Award] in the sustainability category. AIT Project Manager Martin Reinthaler: "The HERMES Transport. Logistics Award is a great honour for our project and shows that our work for efficient and sustainable city logistics is very valuable." The focus of GrazLog is on cooperatively used inner-city logistics hubs. A city logistics centre, a so-called city hub, is installed in which the delivery and handling of goods as well as the collection of returns will be handled all in one.
AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
AIT/Boesenkopf, VCO/Matthaeus Schmid
Guest professorship in Paris As of 1 November 2019, Matthias Weber, Head of Center for Innovation Systems and Policy (centre, with Martina Neuländtner and Christoph Brodnik), has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Science, Innovation et Societé (LISIS) at the University of Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM) for an initial period of three years. One of the goals here is the further expansion of the European research infrastructure RISIS (Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Policy Studies), but also the further development of concepts for a transformative innovation policy. Weber's visiting professorship is part of the French Excellence and Future Investment Programme for profiling university partnerships. It supports the merger of UPEM with five other universities in the south-east of Paris to form the new Université Gustave Eiffel as of 1 January 2020. The latter belongs to the new generation of French universities that are specifically developing interdisciplinary thematic priorities with high international visibility. In the case of the Université Gustave Eiffel, these are the areas "Innovation" and "Urban Transformation". In the medium term, a further intensification of cooperation between LISIS and the AIT Center for Innovation Systems and Policy is planned.
VCÖ Mobility Award 2019 for Autonomous Ticketing Markus Ray, Head of the Dynamic Transportation Systems Competence Unit at the AIT Center for Mobility Systems, accepted the VCÖ Mobility Award 2019 in the category "Digitisation" on behalf of his entire team at a festive gala in Vienna's Odeon theatre: the winner was the submission on the topic of "Autonomous Ticketing of the Next Generation". With the MODE technology, AIT lays the foundation for a future smartphone-based ticketing system for public transport. Autonomous Ticketing works by reliably collecting information about the route, connecting points and the means of transport used. Additional operator-side infrastructure or active user interactions have thus become obsolete.
