German Transport Science Society
The German Transport Science Society e. V. (DVWG) is an association based in Berlin and a member of the German Association of Technical and Scientific Associations . The DVWG aligns its activities in such a way that it can be regarded as both an individual member association and an association.
Mission statement
The DVWG is an independent and federally structured, non-profit association of transport experts from science, business and administration who, through their interdisciplinary and cross-carrier work, work on fundamental and specific problems of transport for the permanent securing of people's mobility and their supply within the framework of a sustainable one Committed to developing traffic. The DVWG is active on an international, national, regional and local level. It forms a neutral platform for the exchange of experiences and opinions and sees itself as a partner of politics, science, business and industry. The activity in the field of opinion-forming, knowledge transfer and further training serves this purpose. In addition, the DVWG is active in promoting young professionals. With the resources available to it, the DVWG supports the European unification process with its scientific activities.
Activities and achievements
- Transport science seminar
- Organization of specialist congresses and workshops
- Central Information Center for Traffic (ZIV)
- Series of publications of the DVWG (since 1965)
- Foundation of advancement awards (Henry Lampke Award, European Young Talent Award, Carl Pirath Award, Friedrich List Award)
- Traffic science news in the trade journal Internationales Verkehrwesen up to and including issue 2/2015 (67th year). The magazine was published by DVV Media Group in Hamburg until March 2016 , and has been published by Trialog Publishers Verlagsgesellschaft, Baiersbronn, since April 2016.
history
The development of the transport science associations in Germany began in Berlin in 1908 when the Scientific Association for Transport (WVV) was founded. The association magazine was the traffic engineering week . After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Transport Science Society was founded in Frankfurt am Main in May 1949 . With the establishment of the DVWG, the association's organ, the specialist journal Internationales Verkehrwesen (initially under the title Internationales Archiv für Verkehrwesen ), appeared. Since its foundation, the DVWG has been a decentralized company with a central office and several district associations. In 1990 the association was enlarged accordingly as a result of the accession of the new federal states. At the end of the 1990s, the Bergisch Gladbach office was relocated back to its original home in Berlin. During this time, the DVWG has intensified its efforts to form a "European Platform for Transport Sciences" (2000/2001) together with its European sister companies.
District Associations
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Organs and structure
- Federal Delegate Assembly : usually meets twice a year, is the highest decision-making body, participants are delegates from all district associations and members of the Presidium
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Presidium (as of summer 2013):
- Knut Ringat (President)
- Thomas Siefer (Vice President)
- Hendrik Ammoser (Treasurer)
- Karin Jaentschi-Haucke
- Barbara Hüttmann (Federal Chairwoman of the Young Forum)