On-demand transit can unlock urban and rural mobility

In the short presentation, examples from DLR research projects were used to highlight possible opportunities for the introduction of on-demand transport and to discuss necessary conditions

Setting the urban agenda to implement automated road transport with regard to sustainable urban mobility plans: Findings of a Delphi Survey and stakeholder workshops in European cities

It is expected that automated and autonomous vehicles will fundamentally change the mobility of people and goods, the transport system, spatial development and the urban and road design. In the presented study, we explore the question of which regulatory measures should be taken to exploit the opportunities that autonomous transport can offer for sustainable urban mobility. A mixed methods approach is applied by combining a stakeholder workshop with a two round Delphi expert-based survey, conducted in different European cities. Our findings are integrated in future scenarios of automated road transport impacts on urban mobility that combine technological possibilities with the needs of citizens and aspects such as transport services, street design and the urban environment. The results show, that the two resulting scenarios describing an 'expected scenario' and a 'desired scenario' of regulatory measures are differing in terms of number and direction of regulatory measures. In our contribution we presented the results of both studies and discussed potential conclusions for future processes regarding regulations for automated road transport in the context of sustainable urban mobility

Broadening cycling culture with the bicycle library - Planting the seeds for a new cycling culture

To broaden the cycling culture, an innovative bicycle library with different bicycles types was implemented, aiming to encourage borrowers to buy a bicycle and to integrate cycling into their everyday life. The factors for a successful implementation along with the results of the accompanying longitudinal survey of users are presented

Broadening cycling culture with the bicycle library

To broaden the cycling culture, an innovative bicycle library with different bicycles types was implemented, aiming to encourage borrowers to buy a bicycle and to integrate cycling into their everyday life. The factors for a successful implementation along with the results of the accompanying longitudinal survey of users are presented

Spectroscopy of the odd-odd fp-shell nucleus 52Sc from secondary fragmentation

The odd-odd fp-shell nucleus 52Sc was investigated using in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy following secondary fragmentation of a 55V and 57Cr cocktail beam. Aside from the known gamma-ray transition at 674(5)keV, a new decay at E_gamma=212(3) keV was observed. It is attributed to the depopulation of a low-lying excited level. This new state is discussed in the framework of shell-model calculations with the GXPF1, GXPF1A, and KB3G effective interactions. These calculations are found to be fairly robust for the low-lying level scheme of 52Sc irrespective of the choice of the effective interaction. In addition, the frequency of spin values predicted by the shell model is successfully modeled by a spin distribution formulated in a statistical approach with an empirical, energy-independent spin-cutoff parameter.Comment: accepted for publication in PR

One-neutron knockout in the vicinity of the N=32 sub-shell closure: 9Be(57Cr,56Cr+ gamma)X

The one-neutron knockout reaction 9Be(57Cr,56Cr + gamma)X has been measured in inverse kinematics with an intermediate-energy beam. Cross sections to individual states in 56Cr were partially untangled through the detection of the characteristic gamma-ray transitions in coincidence with the reaction residues. The experimental inclusive longitudinal momentum distribution and the yields to individual states are compared to calculations that combine spectroscopic factors from the full fp shell model and nucleon-removal cross sections computed in a few-body eikonal approach.Comment: PRC, in pres

Quenching of single-particle strength from direct reactions with stable and rare-isotope beams

In this review article we discuss the present status of direct nuclear reactions and the nuclear structure aspects one can study with them. We discuss the spectroscopic information we can assess in experiments involving transfer reactions, heavy-ion-induced knockout reactions and quasifree scattering with , , and reactions. In particular, we focus on the proton-to-neutron asymmetry of the quenching of the spectroscopic strength.U.S. National Science Foundation PHY-1912643, 1613362, 1415656U.S. Department of Energy DE-FG02-08ER41533, DE-SC0020451 and DE-AC02-06CH1135Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and FEDER funds FIS2017-88410-P and RTI2018-098117-B-C21European Union’s Horizon 2020 654002Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP16K05352, JP18H05404 and JP16H0217German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF project 05P2015RDFN1UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/P005314/1, ST/L005516/1, ST/K000373/1 and ST/K0003259/1DFG German Research Foundation 279384907-SFB 124