Janina-Charline Michel

Dr. Janina-Charline Michel is a Teaching Professor at the Institute of Land and Sea Transport Planning and Operation of Roads at Technische Universität Berlin. She specializes in transportation engineering with a focus on road safety, urban traffic planning, and cycling infrastructure design. Her work emphasizes accident prevention strategies for vulnerable road users, particularly cyclists and pedestrians. She holds a doctoral degree in engineering from TU Berlin, awarded in 2019 for her groundbreaking research on truck-cyclist accidents at urban intersections.

Education: Completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in transportation engineering at TU Berlin, with thesis focuses on barrier-free crossing points and bicycle traffic simulation. Her academic contributions include over a decade of research in traffic signal optimization, cycling infrastructure evaluation, and autonomous vehicle interaction.

Research Interests: Urban traffic safety, cyclist protection measures, traffic signal systems, and sustainable mobility solutions. She has actively participated in projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), including the 'Mobility2Grid' initiative exploring energy-mobility integration.

Notable Achievements: Received an award at the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting for her poster on turning accidents. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented globally, including at Road Safety for 5 Continents and the World Class Cities Summer Symposium. She has supervised over 30 student theses on topics ranging from traffic signal coordination to autonomous vehicle safety.

Labs/Teams: Lead researcher in the 'Blind Spot' project (BASt-funded) addressing truck-cyclist conflicts. Collaborates with the EUREF Research Campus on mobility and energy sustainability projects.