Dipl.-Phys. Torsten Fleischer
- Deputy head of institute
- Research group “Mobility Futures”
- Room: 318
- Phone: +49 721 608-24571
- torsten fleischer ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Current positions
- Head of the research group “Mobility Futures”
- Focus topic “Mobility in urban contexts – Needs-based Infrastructures in Cities of the Future” as part of the “Profilregion Mobilitätsysteme Karlsruhe” research cluster
Fields of work
- Technology Assessment on Informatization and Automation of Mobility and Transportation
- Technology Assessment in the fields Energy and New Materials (Focus Nanomaterials)
- Interactions between technological and societal changes
- Governance of innovation processes
Recent projects and responsibilities
- Project coordination “Feasibility conditions and implications of Automated Driving” as part of Tech Center a-drive
- Work package leader “Technology Assessment as part of the Development Process” within Project PAKoS: „Personalisierte, adaptive kooperative Systeme für automatisierte Fahrzeuge“ (Personalized, adaptive and cooperative Systems for Automated Vehicles)
- WP6 “Behaviour in the context of changes in values and lifestyles” within Kopernikus-Project ENavi
- Project coordinator “M4ShaleGas: Measuring, monitoring, mitigating, managing the environmental impact of shale gas”
- RITA – Responsible Innovation und Technology Assessment
- KonsensOP – Context-sensitive assistance in an attentive surgical operating theatre
- Technology Options in Urban Transport: Changing paradigms and promising innovation strategies
Completed projects (after 2000)
- TRANSFORuM – Transforming European Transport through an Active Actors Forum
- FUTRE – FUture prospects on TRansport evolution and innovation challenges for the competitiveness of Europe
- myCopter - Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Vehicles
- Global Ethics in Science and Technology (GEST)
- Bürgerdialog Zukunftstechnologien (Citizen’s Dialogue on Future Technologies)
- Eco-Efficient Transport Futures for Europe
- Contribution to the risk governance of particulate nanomaterials by evidence mapping of their potential health risks
- Technology Options in Urban Transport: Changing paradigms and promising innovation strategies
- AUTOSUPERCAP - Development of High Energy/High Power Density Supercapacitors for Automotive Applications
- Electrochemical Storage in a systemic perspective – Reliability and Integration
- Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS
- Optimal policies for transport in combination (OPTIC)
- ITA monitoring – identification of new topics for the innovation and technology analysis of the BMBF
- NanoSafety – Risk Governance of Manufactured Nanoparticless
- Study about the state of research on the specific use and distribution patterns of sustainable technologies
- World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews) – a World Wide Project on Citizens’ Participation in Climate Policy
- Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Materials Research – Characteristics and Conditions of Successful Product Innovation (InnoMat)
- Converging Technologies (CONTECS)
- Alternative Technology Options for Road and Air Transport
- Nanotechnology and Health – Technological Options, Risk Assessment and Precautionary Strategies
- Innovation Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to Reach a “Sustainable Development” in the Transport Sector Comparative Analysis of International Experiences and Interpretation for German Implementation Conditions
Professional background
| 1990 | German university degree „Diplom“ after University studies of physics in Berlin |
| 1991 - 1995 | Scientific staff member in the Department of Applied Systems Analysis (AFAS) that later became the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) |
| 1995 - 2000 | Scientific staff member at the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) Bonn / Berlin |
| since 2000 | Scientific staff member at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Recent publications
2023
Book Chapters
Reichenbach, M.; Fleischer, T. (2023). Zwischen Ambition und Umsetzung : Institutionalisierungsprozesse als Kernherausforderung der Mobilitätswende?. Renaissance der Verkehrspolitik. Hrsg.: D. Sack, 293–322, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-38832-4_12
Journal Articles
Reichenbach, M.; Fleischer, T. (2023). From ambition to implementation: institutionalisation as a key challenge for a sustainable mobility transition in Germany. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 13 (1), Art.-Nr.: 14. doi:10.1186/s13705-023-00392-6
2022
Journal Articles
Fleischer, T.; Puhe, M.; Schippl, J. (2022). Autonomes Fahren und soziale Akzeptanz: konzeptionelle Überlegungen und empirische Einsichten. Journal für Mobilität und Verkehr, 12, 9–23.
Schippl, J.; Truffer, B.; Fleischer, T. (2022). Potential impacts of institutional dynamics on the development of automated vehicles: Towards sustainable mobility?. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 14, Art.-Nr.: 100587. doi:10.1016/j.trip.2022.100587
Conference Papers
Fleischer, T.; Puhe, M.; Schippl, J.; Yamasaki, Y. (2022). Public Expectations Regarding the Longer-term Implications of and Regulatory Changes for Autonomous Driving: A Contribution to the Debate on its Social Acceptance. 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV): 4–9 June 2022, Aachen, Germany, 1268–1273, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/IV51971.2022.9827210
Posters
Schippl, J.; Czech, A.; Puhe, M.; Fleischer, T. (2022). Wer möchte automatisierte Fahrzeuge und aus welchen Gründen? Ergebnisse einer Interviewstudie mit Bürger/-innen in Karlsruhe. 14. Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität "Towards the New Normal in Mobility" (2022), Duisburg, Germany, June 23, 2022.
2021
Book Chapters
Reichenbach, M.; Engel, B.; Fleischer, T.; Hartmann, M.; Kagerbauer, M.; Rogge, N.; Schippl, J.; Szimba, E. (2021). Automation-driven transformation of road infrastructure: a multi-perspective case study. Städtebauliche und sozioökonomische Implikationen neuer Mobilitätsformen. Beiträge aus: Profilregion Mobilitätssysteme Karlsruhe. Hrsg.: Jens Schippl, Uta Burghard, Nora Baumgartner, Barbara Engel, Martin Kagerbauer, Eckhard Szimba, 127–156, KIT Scientific Publishing.
Zimmer-Merkle, S.; Fleischer, T.; Schippl, J. (2021). Mobilität und Technikfolgenabschätzung: zwischen Mobilitätsermöglichung und Mobilitätsfolgenbewältigung. Technikfolgenabschätzung. Hrsg.: S. Böschen, 97–112, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901990-97
Journal Articles
Puhe, M.; Schippl, J.; Fleischer, T.; Vortisch, P. (2021). Social Network Approach to Analyze Stability and Variability of Travel Decisions. Transportation research record, 2675 (9), 398–407. doi:10.1177/03611981211002200
Conference Papers
Fleischer, T.; Schippl, J.; Yamasaki, Y.; Taniguchi, A. (2021). Social Acceptance of Automated Driving: Some Insights from Comparative Research in Japan and Germany. The Book of Abstracts - Proceedings of the 27th ITS World Congress, Hamburg, 11.-15.10.2021, 1510–1523.
Posters
Maia, M. J.; Nierling, L.; Coenen, C.; Fleischer, T.; Heil, R.; Jahnel, J.; König, H.; Orwat, C. (2021). Research on AI at ITAS. Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence Conference (Helmholtz AI 2021), Online, April 14–15, 2021.