(Coordinating University: The Justus Liebig University of Gieen; Coordinator: Professor Volkmar Wolters)
The planning of tram, train and subway routes and similar infrastructural measures in urban environments, as well as the associated construction of the requisite under- and overpasses, is becoming increasingly complex; the legal, environmental, economic and design ramifications are becoming more diverse, and the number of participants with in some cases widely diverging competencies, levels of knowledge and interests, is constantly increasing. The Research Unit aims to use a "computer-aided cooperative route planning system in multi-scale 3D town and architectural models" to considerably simplify the planning process. In order to do this, the two-dimensional planning models normally used are to be expanded to create three- and four-dimensional town and architectural models. The research group aims to combine technologies from the areas of geographical information systems, computer vision and collaborative planning platforms in new ways, and to investigate new approaches to interactive, parametric route planning, image-based "real time" localisation in 3D and multiscale 3D modelling. The results should prove highly significant for basic research in the engineering sciences, as well as in planning, for applications including on-site mobile systems.
(Coordinating Institution: The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): Coordinator: Professor Martin Breunig)
The new "Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems" Research Unit aims to bridge the gap between mathematics and physics. This Unit will examine spatially coincident structures in geometry and physics. On the mathematical side, the group aims primarily to further develop the methods and models used in spatial stochastics, in particular in stochastic geometry. The g
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