Allister Loder

Allister Loder serves as Professor for Mobility Policy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he leads research on digital transformation in transportation systems. His work focuses on leveraging smartphone technologies to create personalized user-network-operator connections for sustainable mobility management, behavioral change incentives, and socially equitable pricing mechanisms.

His research integrates transportation policy with digital innovation, examining how app-based systems can optimize resource allocation through dynamic pricing and socioeconomic-aware incentives. Methodologically, he employs macroscopic system dynamics modeling followed by agent-based simulations to evaluate mobility interventions, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport transitions and justice-oriented system design.

Recent publications reveal a cohesive research trajectory analyzing novel mobility consumption frameworks, incentive architectures like MobilityCoins, and real-world policy experiments including Germany's 9-Euro-Ticket. These works demonstrate consistent integration of economic theory, behavioral modeling, and data science to address transportation sustainability challenges across multiple scales.

Professor Loder actively engages with public discourse through contributions to the Digital Society platform, including reflections on interdisciplinary research at the bidt Graduate Center and critical analyses of AI in scientific communication, demonstrating commitment to translating academic insights into societal impact.