Dr.-Ing. Fabian Wenner was awarded the 2022 doctoral prize by the Friends of TUM e.V. for his dissertation "Interrelations between Transport Infrastructure and Urban Development. The Case of High-Speed Rail Stations".
Fabian Wenner has been researching and teaching at the Chair of Spatial Development at the TUM School of Engineering and Design since 2014. He currently leads the research group "Land Use, Infrastructure, Spatial Transformation". His doctorate deals with changes in accessibility caused by high-speed rail transport (HGV) in Europe, especially in Germany. The spatial distribution of accessibility has a decisive influence on the choice of location by households and companies and thus also on spatial development in the long term. In addition to an analysis of these spatial, but also structural change processes, concrete recommendations for action for sustainable and integrated urban and traffic planning around stations of the HGV are presented in the doctoral thesis. The work was supervised by Prof. Alain Thierstein and completed in 2021 with the grade "summa cum laude".
The doctoral award recognizes the outstanding achievement of Fabian Wenner's dissertation. The Freunde der TUM e.V. honors outstanding doctoral or habilitation theses every year. The prize is endowed with €1,500. The deans of the faculties and schools are entitled to make suggestions. The award winners are honored at the annual general meeting in December.
Further Information:
- Thesis "Interrelations between Transport Infrastructure and Urban Development. The Case of High-Speed Rail Stations" as Open Access on mediaTUM
- Research Activities at the Chair of Urban Development
- Informationen on the Freunde der TUM e.V.