🎓Development and investigation of innovative concepts for support in everyday consumer life, taking into account increasing digitalisation and changing consumer behaviour

At 45%, motorised private transport is still the most popular mode of transport in Germany. At the same time, private vehicles are parked unused in public spaces for an average of 23 hours a day. In rural regions in particular, dependence on private vehicles is high due to a lack of mobility alternatives and sharing concepts. The lack of mobility services is often due to the lack of economic viability for mobility providers. In his doctoral thesis, doctoral student Paul Bossauer is investigating how new technologies, such as blockchain technology, can be used to improve mobility services in rural areas and, in particular, promote the sharing of vehicles by local authorities, clubs, companies with their own fleets and private individuals. Paul Bossauer is a researcher in the maas4 project and the Consumer Informatics research group.