In the MobileCityGame project, a Serious Game is developed, allowing the user to explore scenarios, as well as the manifold effects and interrelations of measures in the scope of urban transport policy-makers and urban planers. Consisting of modules such as settlement structure & population, infrastructure & mobility services, mobility behaviour & demand, mobility technologies, and energy systems & infrastructure, a model is elaborated which provides quantitative results to the Serious Game environment. The Serious Game interface will transform the quantitative model outputs into game parameters. Thus, the MobileCityGame project will provide a low-threshold interactive planning tool in the form of an app, whose results and causal relationships rely on a scientifically sound basis.

The simulation tool is developed for the City of Karlsruhe and has a time horizon until 2050. 

The MobileCityGame project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in the context of the Mobilitätszukunftslabor 2050 programme.

The project has been awarded the German Mobility Award (Deutscher Mobilitätspreis) 2023 under the category »Digital Transformation & Data Driven Mobility« by the German Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI).

During the Winter term 2023/24, the MobileCity app has been explored by students within a Seminar course. A summary of this Seminar course is published in the KAMO.Magazin issue July 2024.

Other project partners

• Fraunhofer Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI (co-ordinator)
• Institut für Fahrzeugsystemtechnik (FAST), KIT
• Institut für Verkehrswesen (IfV), KIT
• Institut für Produktentwicklung (IPEK), KIT
• Fraunhofer Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (IOSB)
• Stadt Karlsruhe Stadtplanungsamt
• Takomat GmbH