Alexander Sandau

Bringing Sustainability to the Daily Business – Strategic African-German Partnerships

Universities, as key actors in higher education and drivers of research, community engagement and innovation, play a central role in the struggle against poverty, inequality and ecological degradation. Within the scope of several African-German partnerships, university graduates are enabled to gain a deep understanding of global sustainability issues and the skills to solve complex problems.

New Era of Fleet Management Systems for Autonomous Vehicles

The automotive sector is influenced by several major trends, such as cost pressure, decreasing car ownership, digitalization and huge investments in technologies for electric vehicles and autonomous driving. These leads to huge challenges for automotive manufacturers and their business models. The transformation from manufacturers to mobility service providers is one suitable approach to overcome these challenges. Simultaneously, modern ICT can enhance vehicles to self-propelled, high-technical control units, that enables the driver to assign tasks to the autopilot step by step. This poses considerable challenges for the automobile branch and raises questions as “How car manufacturers can differentiate themselves in the future, if the vehicle is not being paramount?”. Since the users of fully autonomous vehicles have no longer to deal with driving, the possibilities of the interior design and new value-adding services can act as a kind of demarcation. The driving time can be used for different activities as work or leisure. Empowered by this technological development the market asks for more customer centered mobility services with value-adding offers. Following these development, new intelligent fleet management systems are needed, that are capable to react on events from autonomous vehicles and providing value-added services for consumers. As main contribution, the paper introduces an agent-based approach for marketing value-added services in fleet management systems.

Trends in Mobility: A Competitive Based Approach for Virtual Mobility Providers to Participate in Transportation Markets

Mobility is necessary to participate on day-to-day life, but comes along with negative implications on our environment. A change in our mobility behavior caused by the growing digitalization and arise of new mobility services is essential to reduce the environmental impact of our mobility. To achieve such goal, new services with a strengthened competition has to be established. In addition, sharing of workforce and operating supplies between companies are addressed to adopt new business models. B2B sharing, including occasional workers, has huge potential to generate new services and business models, especially in the service sector. The described approach of a mobility broker provides such a tool for sharing between businesses, but also between businesses and occasional working persons in the field of mobility services.