The Bicycle Traffic team is available to supervise students writing a thesis within the study programmes:

• Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Transportation Engineering (VWING) in the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering

• Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Civil Engineering (BAUING) in the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering

• Master’s programme on Computer Simulation in Science (CSIS) in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Here you will find a list of all completed theses supervised by our team and their respective summaries.

Students are invited to apply for one of our open topics (listed below) or propose a other cycling-related research topics they would like to investigate through their bachelor’s or master’s thesis. Please contact us at least 3 months before your planned registration date to begin your research.

Before contacting us, please refer to the Prüfungsordnung for your study programme to confirm that you have completed (or will soon complete) all credit requirements to begin your thesis. 

To apply for supervision, send an email to Matthias Schaarwächter with the following information:

• Your study programme and planned registration date to begin your thesis.

• The title of the open topic you are applying to write your thesis on, or the proposed title and a short description of the topic you are proposing.

• An approved “Antrag auf Ausgabe einer Aufgabenstellung für eine Thesis”, provided by the Examination Office. (If you have not completed all credits but will before your planned registration date, please explain this in your email.)

Following a review of your application and an initial meeting with a potential supervisor, students must submit a short research exposé describing the proposed research in greater detail. A template for the exposé and guidance are provided to all students who contact us regarding the supervision of master’s and bachelor’s theses. The final determination on supervision is made based on the quality and relevance of the research proposed in the exposé.

The following topics are available for editing. The list is continuously updated and students can also contact us with their own suggestions according to the procedure described above.