Kickoff for project about decarbonizing Berlin bus transport

January 26, 2023 | Volker Wissing, Federal Minister of Digital Affairs and Transport, today handed over his ministry’s funding notification to the RLI and the project consortium for the E-Bus 2030+ project. In this project, RLI scientists, together with TU Berlin and the Berliner Verkehrsbetrieben (BVG), are developing strategies for the complete decarbonization of Berlin bus transport by 2030 and beyond.

“All BVG buses are to run on electricity by 2030. We are pleased to be able to contribute to this ambitious goal with the E Bus 2030+ project. Together with our partners, we are developing software that takes the power grid into account and thus reduces the need for grid expansion. The freely accessible software enables application to public transport throughout Germany and brings speed to the necessary expansion of e-mobility,” says Jakob Gemassmer, who heads the project at RLI.

The E-bus 2030+ project

In E-bus 2030+, the research team will develop an open source software for simulating and designing systems for electric buses. It is intended to accelerate the changeover for transport companies to alternative drives. Since the mobility conditions in Berlin are very diverse, the project is ideal for programming software that can subsequently be used in other cities and regions as well.

The handover of the funding decision and thus the official kick-off of the project took place in Berlin at the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport. For the RLI, project manager Jakob, Norman Pieniak, head of the research unit Mobility with Renewable Energies, and RLI managing director Kathrin Goldammer accepted the notice.

Find more information in the press release of the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport here.

Further information on the project can be found here.