Jürgen Gerlach (engineer)

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Jürgen Gerlach (2018)

Jürgen Gerlach (born July 11, 1963 in Iserlohn ) is a German civil engineer and traffic planner . He is a university professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and head of the teaching and research area for road traffic planning and road traffic technology in the Transport Center of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

biography

Gerlach completed his civil engineering studies at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal from 1983 to 1987 . His diploma thesis dealt with the handling of visitor traffic at the Olympic Games for the Olympic application Hamburg s 2004. He continued to accompany the Olympic application as a project manager and consulting engineer at the Stolz engineering association in Kaarst , whose managing partner in the office for traffic planning and traffic engineering he became in 1995 and where he was during During his 11 years of activity, he worked on more than 200 projects on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport as well as state transport ministries and municipalities.

In 1995 he received his doctorate on the subject of "A contribution to the design of the transport network from an environmentally-oriented point of view" at the University of Wuppertal. After teaching positions at various universities, he accepted the call to professor at the University of Wuppertal in 1999. There, he initiated and designed the first time in 2009 in Germany accredited Bachelor - and Master -Studiengang traffic industrial engineering to complement the established transport training in civil engineering .

Gerlach also leads congresses and seminars and gives lectures worldwide. This includes , among other things, the World Road Congress of the international association PIARC , the German Road and Transport Congress of the Research Association for Roads and Transport (FSGV) as well as events of the future network mobility NRW and the Vhw Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development . He also moderates the annual “Road Safety” symposium organized by the FGSV, BaSt , the German Road Safety Council and the universities of Weimar and Wuppertal .

From 2016 to 2020 he was an expert in the Loveparade process and prepared a comprehensive report on the accident at the Loveparade 2010 , which he published in extracts as "Technical processing of the causes of the tragic events at the Loveparade Duisburg 2010".

Gerlach is a member of various committees of the Research Society for Roads and Transport. He is also the initiator of the German Pedestrian Congress and is involved in supporting associations that contribute to sustainable, environmentally friendly and safe mobility.

He is the editor of the magazine for traffic safety and scientific advisory board of the magazine road traffic technology . In addition to publications in professional journals and conference reports, Gerlach was also involved as an author on books.

Research priorities

Gerlach's research focuses on the design and dimensioning of traffic systems , road traffic safety , safety at (large) events, accessibility , mobility and safety of children and the elderly, network design and network categorization as well as environmental compatibility.

Awards

  • 1991 Winner of the VDA ideas competition "The City of Tomorrow - Planning for People" with the topic of "Parking in Urban Areas"
  • 2000 Awarded the Max-Erich-Feuchtinger / Bruno-Wehner-Gedenkmünze for excellent scientific-theoretical as well as practical work in the area of ​​planning, design and operation of city and country roads
  • 2004 Badge of Honor of the Young Forum of the German Transport Science Society
  • 2006 teaching award from the University of Wuppertal
  • 2010 Badge of Honor of the Research Society for Roads and Transportation

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Gerlach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerlach, Jürgen. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on August 14, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).
  2. ↑ a b c d Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Gerlach. In: University of Wuppertal. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d CV University Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Gerlach. In: University of Wuppertal. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Gerlach: Technical preparation of the causes of the tragic events at the Love Parade Duisburg 2010. Retrieved on August 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 1st German Pedestrian Congress successful. In: Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ List of publications. In: Google Scholar . Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, traffic planner and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn