Helmut Holzapfel (transport scientist)

Helmut Holzapfel (born January 22, 1950 in Göttingen ) is a German urban planner, civil engineer and transport scientist. His focus is on integrated traffic planning and mobility development. He heads the Center for Mobility Culture in Kassel. He was a professor at the Institute for Transport at the University of Kassel and head of the Integrated Transport Planning / Mobility Development department and a member of the Institute for Urban Development (IUE) and the Competence Center for Climate Protection and Adaptation (CliMA) at the University of Kassel. From 2005 to 2007 he was Dean of the Department of Architecture , Urban Planning , Landscape Planning (ASL) at the University of Kassel.

Life

After studying civil engineering at the TU Braunschweig , Holzapfel worked as a scientist at the TU Berlin from 1975 to 1985 and received his doctorate in 1980 on transport relations in cities. In the project “Energy and Society” he worked from 1980 to 1987 with Wolfgang Sachs , Klaus Traube and Otto Ullrich on scenarios of the future of energy without nuclear power . From 1984 he worked at the Ministry for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and at the Institute for State and Urban Development in Dortmund .

From 1993 to 1995 Holzapfel was Professor of Transport Planning in Kassel , head of the “Integrated Transport Planning” working group. Intensive collaboration with transportation scientists from the USA , distinction with a “fellowship” from the “Marshall Fund ( Washington )”, longer stay in the USA ( Berkeley , MIT Boston ), where already intensive work on climate and environmental issues (e.g. contacts and collaboration with the Worldwatch Institute , Washington). During this period there was close cooperation in lectures with Lucius Burckhardt (among other things the founder of promenadology ).

From 1995 to 1998 head of the transport department at the Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of Saxony-Anhalt . Administration of the entire transport policy at the state level as well as conceptual work, representation of the state at the federal level (transport department heads conference). Already at this time there was intensive cooperation with local authorities and regions.

Since 1998 professor for transport planning in Kassel again, consultancy for the state government in Saxony-Anhalt and for the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing , member of the academy “3. Millennium "by the publisher Hubert Burda, member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (2001–2004), spokesman for the" Innovative Transport Policy "working group of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . Preparation and management of nationwide seminars of the Ebert Foundation on issues of climate development and climate policy.

2005–2007 Dean of the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel . 2006 Renaming of the department to "Integrated Transport Planning / Mobility Development" and part of the interdisciplinary Institute for Transport.

In 2011 he was visiting professor at University College London (UCL) and the University of Alessandria , Italy . In 2012 he was visiting professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Between 2009 and 2014 there was an intensive collaboration with the English city planner Sir Peter Hall as part of the EU research project “Sintropher” and the RegioTram Kassel .

Helmut Holzapfel is the author of numerous articles, including in Frankfurter Rundschau and ZEIT, on the environment, traffic and climate development, and is co-editor of the magazine "Verkehr + Technik". He is also co-editor of “World Transport Policy & Practice”, an international specialist journal for integrated urban and transport planning.

He works in an interdisciplinary manner and has worked on the editing of writings by the psychologist Arno Gruen and was a member of the advisory board of the documenta 12 art exhibition .

More recent publications can be found in the handbook for municipal transport planning (edited together with Dieter Apel, Folkert Kiepe , among others ), here in particular articles on "Integrated Transport Planning" (2003), or in numerous individual articles in scientific journals (internationally, especially in Great Britain ) . At the end of 2011 he published the book Urbanism and Transport . The English version of the book was published in 2015 as Urbansim and Transport .

Helmut Holzapfel has been a member of the Advisory Board for Integrity and Corporate Responsibility at Daimler AG since 2011 . Until 2019 he was a member of the board of FUSS eV - Fachverband Fußverkehr Deutschland

In 2015 he left the University of Kassel and taught as a substitute professor at the Institute for Transportation at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and headed the Center for Mobility Culture in Kassel.

Awards

• 1992: Awarded a "Fellowship" from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, extended stay in the USA with contacts and lectures in Boston (MIT) on the future of transport
• 2019: Associate member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

Works (excerpt)

• with Klaus Traube and Otto Ullrich: Autoverkehr 2000. Paths to ecologically and socially compatible road traffic. Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-7880-9760-4 .
• Autonomy instead of a car; On the relationship between lifestyle, environment and economy using the example of transport. Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-87081-156-0 .
• with T. Bracher, M. Haag, F. Kiepe, M. Lehmbrock and U. Reutter (eds.): HKV - Handbook of municipal transport planning; For practice in the city and region. 60. Supplement. Berlin, as of April 2011, ISBN 978-3-87907-400-6 .
• with Martin Schmitz: Lucius Burckhardt's Promenadologie. In: archplus. 183 (Situational Urbanism), Berlin 2007
• Everywhere and nowhere. In: Le Monde diplomatique. London May 2010, p. 14.
• Cornerstones for target-oriented, integrated federal infrastructure planning; from the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan to the Federal Transport Network Planning. In: WISO discourse of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Berlin December 2010.
• Traffic planning in the new federal states. Experiences from practice. In: Twenty years of city and regional planning since German reunification. Planning review. (= Book series for planning theory and planning policy ). Kassel 2010.
• with Käthe Protze: Traffic structures and landscape - just an aesthetic problem? In: RaumPlanung. 153, Dortmund December 2010, pp. 267-271.
• Urbanism and Transport. Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8348-1950-5 .
• with R. Bormann, W. Eberle, R. Gerike and others: Goals and ways to a quieter mobility. (= WISO discourse. Expertise and documentation on economic and social policy. Publication by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation ). Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86498-008-4 .
• with R. Bormann, M. Groß, H.-J. Hacker, among others: Early public participation for more efficient transport infrastructure planning. (= WISO discourse. Expertise and documentation on economic and social policy; publication by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation ). Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86498-352-8 .
• Traffic planning in the postmodern era. In: A. Eichenlaub, T. Pristl (Ed.): Conversion with existing buildings; Sustainable adaptation strategies for buildings, spaces and structures. Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-496-01447-8 , pp. 105-115.
• The city that came out of the shadows. In: Town & Country Planning. 3, London 2012.
• Urbanism and Transport; Building Blocks for Architects and City and Transport Planners. Oxon, New York / Abingdon 2012, ISBN 978-1-138-79818-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Holzapfel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Center for Mobility Culture, Kassel

Individual references and sources

1. ↑ mobilitaetskultur.eu
2. ↑ The members of the Federal Board of FUSS eV Accessed on April 29, 2019 . 
3. ↑ boku.ac.at