Prof. Dr. Allister Loder

MCube:

• What fascinates you about the Munich Innovation Powerhouse?
  • The fact that, in addition to the serious problems and challenges, we also have many solutions and their stakeholders on our doorstep
• What key challenge do you see for the future of mobility in general?
  • The struggle for resources such as space, time, money and energy will increase in our society and in a democracy these interests must be weighed up against each other in a socially acceptable way
• What perspective or expertise do you bring to MCube, which project are you leading or which topic do you exemplify?
  • ...in the MobiPionier project I contribute my specialist knowledge in the public transport sector as well as expertise in the implementation of real laboratories
• "For me, MCube means..."
  • a unique opportunity to work with a great stakeholder network.

Curriculum vitae: Allister Loder is interested in understanding and modeling complex systems and networks where physics, policy and human behavior interact - as is the case in the field of mobility. He completed his Master's degree in Energy Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in 2015 and received his PhD with distinction in Transportation Science from the same institution in 2019. In 2020, he worked as a consultant for mobility data and simulation at the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). From 2021 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Transportation Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Since October 2023, he has been Assistant Professor of Mobility Policy. He heads a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, is Principal Investigator of the BMDV-funded MCube MobiPionier project and a project in the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 408 AgiMo, where he also acts as Co-Director of the Integrated Graduate School. He has received support from the German National Academic Foundation and the bidt Graduate Center, an institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, among others. He is currently Equal Opportunities Officer for his faculty. His professional expertise lies in the mathematical modeling of travel behavior, traffic flow and the economics and financing of transport policy. His outstanding contributions include the understanding of the multimodal macroscopic fundamental diagram and its application in transport planning as well as the implementation of a large-scale mobility survey to investigate the natural experiments surrounding the German fare innovations 9-Euro-Ticket and Deutschlandticket.