Federal Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers

Federal Association of Road Construction and Transport ; Engineers (BSVI)
purpose	Professional association
Chair:	Rainer Popp
Establishment date:	October 25, 1963
Number of members:	around 19,000
Seat :	Munich
Website:	www.bsvi.de

Exhibition openings in Bonn with BSVI President Manfred Werz in the presence of State Secretary Wilhelm Knittel

“BSVI Prize” 2002 for the horse tower crossing in Hanover-Kleefeld , relief image by the artist Wolfgang Liesen

German Road and Transport Engineer Award 2013

The Federal Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers (BSVI) is an umbrella organization of the associations of road construction and transport engineers ( VSVI for short ) of the individual federal states in Germany . The association, based in Munich , was founded in 1963 and currently has around 19,000 members. At the extraordinary 41st Assembly of Delegates on April 23, 2016, Rainer Popp was elected as the new President of the Federal Association.

Purpose and task

According to its own information, the Federal Association pursues the following purposes and tasks: It is committed to promoting further training in the technical and scientific field and is involved in the development of future-oriented concepts in the field of transport planning. Furthermore, the aim is to maintain the building culture and to support the exchange of ideas within the profession.

The Federal Association tries to fulfill its tasks through public relations work, specialist conferences and specialist publications. Current issues are discussed in the specialist committees and bodies and the results are published in the form of reports. Outstanding engineering achievements are regularly awarded in a competition (so-called “BSVI Prize”).

Since 2013 the "BSVI Prize" has been reissued. In a revised concept, the "German Road and Traffic Engineering Award" is awarded every two years, in which future-oriented and trend-setting engineering achievements in the areas of traffic engineering, road planning and road construction are recognized. The most promising projects will be determined and evaluated in three categories by a high-ranking jury. In the "Building Culture" category, based on the Weimar Declaration of the BSVI, planning qualities such as design and spatial integration in and out of town are in demand. “Verkehr im Dialog” responds to the challenge of dealing with the new public, with which road and traffic planners are increasingly confronted today. Therefore, special processes of citizen participation and project communication should be recognized in this category. Finally, the “Innovation” category looks for advances in the road and traffic sector, which in particular reveal new ideas and services and offer great potential for the future. After the competition, both the award winners and the nominees will also have the opportunity, in coordination with the BSVI, to present themselves and their project to the specialist public in the magazines “Straße und Autobahn” and “Straßenverkehrstechnik”.

structure

The association is an umbrella organization and consists of 14 independent regional associations:

Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Baden-Württemberg eV
Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers in Bavaria V.
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Berlin-Brandenburg eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Hamburg eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Hessen eV
Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Lower Saxony eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in North Rhine-Westphalia eV
Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland eV
Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers in the Free State of Saxony V.
Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers Saxony-Anhalt eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Schleswig-Holstein eV
Association of road construction and traffic engineers in Thuringia eV