Transportation and traffic are central problems of our society dependent on mobility. Counting planning of efficient transport routes as one of the great scientific challenges at a greatest possible avoidance of environmental damage, traffic forecasts and transport planning or transportation in suspensions approximately. They require a detailiertes understanding of the basic dynamic phenomena, a fine-meshed net of test points, powerful computers and ingenious algorithms, for the processing of the data. The scientific access to these problems via physics can provide essential contributions here. Is, for example, traffic looked at physically is a granular Stömungsprozeß, conceptionally narrowly related to it with the river of granular matter (sand, tablets, grain etc.) by a pipe. The jam has its correspondence inden density waves ("blockages") which one watches at pouring goods. Also other parallels between the flow behavior of a granular matter and the traffic, such as self organization and chaos, appear. E.g. the static charge of a granular matter and transportation events are of great importance for the process engineering in Suspensionen. In the two cases langreichweitige interactions play an essential role between the particles whose counterpart is the communication and coupling in the traffic between vehicles further removed.

The education arranged in this course of studies shall enable the graduates to work on the urgent problems of transportation and traffic in the practice. Central aspects of the education are a practice oriented model formation, recessed knowledge in computer simulation, processing and business management knowledge as well as metrological abilities.

The professional prospects of the graduates have to be classified in the longer run to than very good. The need to experts both for all sorts of aspects of the computer simulation and modeling of traffic and transportation will increase drastically within the next years. Alone the operation of computer and communication networks can be seen from the aspect transportation in networked systems today since the same problems appear data transport ("information highway") because by there. We are standing at the beginning of a rapid development of networking at different levels at the moment. At the same time, however, we start to feign transportation events in networked systems realistically and to understand the relevant legitimacies.

The computer simulation as a central aid offers its services increasingly as a cheap alternative to considerably more effortful analysis methods, himself for complex networks, in an ideal way. The influence of different outer parameters can be studied with the aim recognizing and avoiding possible planning faults early. These in computer physics developed methods of both the modeling and the simulation are itself a powerful tool which can be used fast and efficiently. For this application is a sound scientific education and corresponding experience particularly with respect to the modeling, necessary. The striking characteristic of this new studies direction is the herfür necessary knowledge and abilities the arrangement.