Fritz Busch is elected full professor and director of the chair for traffic engineering and control at Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Currently he is also a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), and he serves as program principal investigator for TUMCREATE, the TUM-NTU joint research platform for public transport, electro-mobility, automation and connected transport systems.
In his research with a team of around 25 scientists in Munich and another 10 scientists in Singapore, he currently concentrates on data fusion, traffic modelling and control for all modes of private and public transport, including new forms of active mobility. Understanding the various views of mobility stakeholders in the light of emerging technologies, increasing ecological challenges and a substantial change of social mobility behaviour is the fundament for his application-oriented research within the guide rails of holistic system thinking. In teaching, he covers the full classical curriculum of transportation for civil engineers and he undertakes to set up new offers of education in the domain of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), like e.g. two new international M.Sc. programs at TUM and at TUM-Asia in Singapore.
Before taking over responsibility in academia in 2003, Fritz Busch spent 13 years at Siemens ITS, with his last 4-years position being member of the business unit’s board and vice president for international products and systems marketing of intelligent transport systems, and before that being responsible for Siemens’ industrial research in traffic control and advanced traffic management. Before this, he worked 4 years as a consulting engineer in the transportation and automotive field, being in charge of traffic signal control solutions for cities and later for system architectures work within the European milestone project on automotive research, PROMETHEUS.
Fritz Busch is internationally recognized as an expert in application-oriented transport modelling and intelligent transport systems. He has published his research in around 150 articles as author and/or co-author as well as by numerous public presentations. He received the highest German award in transport, is head of the national ITS-committee of the German Road Transport Research Association, is member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Highway Research Institute and serves as delegate to several national and international committees like e.g. the World Road Association PIARC or the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum.
