Vehicles in Sustainable Mobility Systems

  • type: Lecture / Practice (VÜ)
  • semester: WS 26/27
  • place:

    Lecture: Build. 70.04, room 219

    Exercise: Build. 50.28, Seminarraum 2
  • time:

    Lecture: Thu 09:45 - 11:15

    Exercise: Wed 09:45 - 11:15
  • start: 29.10.2026
  • lecturer:

    Yicai Martinez Pina
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Geimer
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Cichon
  • lecture assistant:

    Marvin Wieschollek
    Philipp Arbogast
  • sws: 3
  • lv-no.: 2115917
  • information: On-Site
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Content
  • Mobility as a basic human need
  • Changes in mobility and their characteristics under temporal, spatial and capacity aspects;History and future of vehicles 
  • Classification of vehicles;Energy conversion, energy sources, basic requirements for vehicle drives 
  • Driving resistance, design fundamentals, power performance requirements
  • Driving dynamics and vehicle dynamics 
  • Components of energy conversion, propulsion, engine characteristics, torque conversion, power transmission components 
  • Motorized vehicle systems: passenger cars, commercial vehicles, rail vehicles, trams, magnetic levitation trains, forestry and agricultural machines as well as construction machines 
  • Sustainability aspects for mobility systems
Language of instructionEnglish
Organisational issues

unter https://www.fast.kit.edu/bst/929_17800.php

Contents
  • Mobility as a basic human need
  • Changes in mobility and their characteristics under temporal, spatial and capacity aspects;History and future of vehicles 
  • Classification of vehicles;Energy conversion, energy sources, basic requirements for vehicle drives 
  • Driving resistance, design fundamentals, power performance requirements
  • Driving dynamics and vehicle dynamics 
  • Components of energy conversion, propulsion, engine characteristics, torque conversion, power transmission components 
  • Motorized vehicle systems: passenger cars, commercial vehicles, rail vehicles, trams, magnetic levitation trains, forestry and agricultural machines as well as construction machines 
  • Sustainability aspects for mobility systems
lecture language english