Udo Becker

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Udo Becker ( Udo Jürgen Becker; born August 13, 1957 in Schwenningen ) is professor and holder of the chair for traffic ecology at the Institute for Traffic Planning and Road Traffic at the Faculty of Traffic Sciences "Friedrich List" at the Technical University of Dresden . In addition to Jochen Eckart at the HS Karlsruhe , he holds one of two professorships for traffic ecology in Germany.

Life

Becker studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe from 1977 to 1983 . After graduating, he spent an academic year at Ohio State University . During his work as a research assistant at the Institute for Transport at the TH Karlsruhe (1984–1990) , Becker obtained his doctorate in engineering in 1988 on the subject of observing road traffic from an airplane .

From 1990 to 1994 he worked as a project manager in the transport department for Prognos AG. Between 1992 and 1999, Becker was also a lecturer in transport economics at the Economic Science Center at the University of Basel .

He was the Chair of Transport Ecology to Dresden in early 1994 called , still the world's only chair for this subject area. The professorship distinguishes between two main research areas in traffic ecology:

  • Short-term / local - Direct effects of transport on the environment: measuring methods, tools and models for energy consumption , exhaust, pollution and CO 2 - emissions , noise , land use , soil and water pollution , etc.
  • Long-term / global - fundamentals of traffic and indirect effects: Sustainability in traffic (sustainable mobility), load capacity limits , long-term orientation and changeability of our traffic systems and behavior, traffic- generating factors, traffic-induced traffic, supply and demand influences, external and internal costs, local agendas. "

In 1996 he was one of the founding members of the Dresden Institute for Transport and Environment (DIVU), a registered association on whose board he is currently a member. Becker is considered a staunch opponent of the construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke and was active as an expert for the Green League of Saxony in the planning approval procedure .

Becker is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Transport Club .

Udo Becker is married and has five children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Observation of road traffic from the aircraft. Properties, calculation and use of traffic quantities. Institute for Transport, Karlsruhe 1989.
  • with Regine Gerike & Andreas Völlings: Social goals from and for traffic. Study on behalf of the Dr. Joachim and Hanna Schmidt Foundation for Transport and Environment. DIVU, Dresden 1999.
  • with Andreas Rau: Concept of sustainable transport planning. , in: Tilman Bracher et al. (Ed.): Handbook of municipal transport planning; 38. Supplementary delivery. Berlin / Offenbach 2004.
  • with Regine Gerike & Juliane Böhmer (eds.): How to define and measure access and need satisfaction in transport. Papers from the ESF Exploratory Workshop, Dresden September 27-28, 2007. DIVU, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-9807994-2-3 .
  • with Regine Gerike & Matthias Winter: Basic knowledge of traffic ecology. DIVU, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-9807994-3-0 .
  • with Thilo Becker & Julia Gerlach: External car costs in the EU-27 Overview of existing studies , Dresden October 2012.

Web links

Commons : Udo Becker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Natusch (Ed.): Festschrift: 15 Years of Transport Science "Friedrich List". Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86780-021-1 , p. 122
  2. ↑ see website of the professorship (as of September 14, 2017)
  3. ↑ Dresden Institute for Transport and Environment e. V .: The DIVU Association: Aims and Background ( Memento from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Thomas Friedlaender : Waldschlößchenbrücke and financial policy - conversation with Prof. Udo Becker TU Dresden, Chair for Traffic Ecology ( Memento from April 1st, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: www.welterbe-erhalten.de. October 22, 2003.
  5. ↑ External car costs in the EU-27 Overview of existing studies ( Memento from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Udo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Udo Jürgen (full name); Becker, Udo J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, professor of traffic ecology at the Technical University of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwenningen