Robo cabs soon in NRW too?

07/10/2025

Johannes Weyer im Gespräch mit Mona Neubaur und Hendrik Wüst, die im NeMo.Cab sitzen sowie mit Jonathan Behm, der daneben steht — Johannes Weyer talking to Mona Neubaur and Hendrik Wüst, who are sitting inside the NeMo.Cab, and Jonathan Behm

At the invitation of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NeMo.bil project was represented with a stand at the summer festival in Brussels on July 2. Hendrik Wüst and his deputy, Mona Neubaur, took the opportunity to sit in the NeMo.Cab and discuss innovative mobility solutions for rural areas with us. The question of how North Rhine-Westphalia can position itself in this field and develop new business models in order to keep added value in the region and secure future-proof jobs in a sustainable mobility industry was also on the agenda.

NeMo.bil is a swarm-shaped mobility system that shows how mobility, digitalization and climate protection can be innovatively combined. The system offers scalable solutions for affordable and reliable mobility in rural areas. It enables social participation and addresses the mobility needs of families, senior citizens, people with disabilities, commuters and many others.

NeMo.bil solves the problem of the first and last mile by using automated vehicles to enable transfer-free door-to-door connections that are not offered on fixed routes but can be booked flexibly as required. This aspect also attracted the interest of NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer, who was also informed about the status of the project.

TU Dortmund University and the Senior Professorship for Sustainable Mobility (Johannes Weyer) are one of 18 partners in this project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The contribution of Dortmund's sociology department is to research the acceptance of the innovative mobility system. In contrast to conventional acceptance studies, a sociological model of mobility behavior and the traffic simulator developed at TU Dortmund University will be used. This makes it possible to test scenarios of future mobility in computer experiments before they are used in practice, thus providing the engineers with important information for optimizing the system.

Group photo from left to right: Johannes Weyer, Mona Neubaur, Jonathan Behm, Hendrik Wüst — In Brussels: Johannes Weyer, Mona Neubaur, Jonathan Behm, Hendrik Wüst (from left to right)

NeMo.Cab is available for viewing at the stand at the NRW state representation's summer party in Brussels — NeMo.Cab for viewing at the stand at the summer party of the NRW state representation in Brussels