Steinbeis Transfer Center Infrastructure Management in Transportation

• Expert advice and development services for issues relating to strategic support for planning processes
  • Maintenance management / Asset management
  • Road safety
  • Road operations / Winter maintenance
  • Digitalisation and BIM in the transport sector
  • Sustainability assessment in the transport sector
• Concept studies, expert reports and implementation support
• Preparation and support for tendering procedures
• Organisational consultancy for road construction authorities, local authority works departments and civil engineering departments, as well as private companies
• Training courses / professional development programmes on specialist topics
• Sustainability certification in building construction and infrastructure 

• Strategic support for planning processes
  • Strategic development of transport networks
  • Issues in spatial planning
• Maintenance Management / Asset Management:
  • Design, development, introduction and implementation of maintenance management systems (EMS/PMS) for transport infrastructure
  • Detailed technical issues relating to asset management in the road and transport sector
  • Tendering and quality assurance for condition surveys and assessments
  • Prioritisation of maintenance programmes and financial requirement forecasts
  • Systematic maintenance management of local authority transport infrastructure
  • Quality management systems in the road sector
• Road Safety:
  • Expert advice on road safety issues
  • Planning and support for measures to improve road safety
  • Road safety measures for non-motorised road users / Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
  • Safety audits
• Road Maintenance / Winter Maintenance
  • Advice on issues relating to road maintenance and winter maintenance
  • Concept development, site planning and cost estimation for road maintenance services
  • Drawing up deployment plans for winter maintenance
  • Deployment and evaluation of meteorological sensors
  • Advice on PPP projects
• Digitalisation and BIM in the transport sector:
  • Road databases and the design of digital models
  • Design and implementation for road maintenance and winter maintenance services
  • Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the life cycle of transport infrastructure
• Sustainability assessment in transport and building construction:
  • Life-cycle analyses
  • Life-cycle cost calculations
  • Life-cycle assessments and sustainability assessments
  • Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in road construction
• Sustainability certification (DGNB, BNB, QNG, etc.)
  • Buildings: new builds, existing buildings, refurbishment, interiors, demolition, construction sites
  • Infrastructure: transport infrastructure, construction sites
  • Neighbourhoods: urban neighbourhoods, outdoor spaces that promote biodiversity
• ESG verification in relation to the EU taxonomy
• Resilience and risk analyses, in particular climate risk analyses

The Steinbeis entrepreneurs were responsible for the following projects:

Strategic support for planning processes:

• “Overall project management, including specialist and technical project support for the ‘Detailnetz 2.0 – Intermodal Road Transport Network for Berlin’ project (Client: Berlin Senate Administration, 2025 – ongoing)
• Scientific consultancy services and the organisation of a workshop to develop a quality assessment framework for the cycle path network in the city of Münster (on behalf of the Münster City Planning Office, 2020)
• Assessment of the preliminary studies for initiating the planning approval procedure in connection with the proposed motorway link to the Baden-Airpark regional airport, as well as the selection of variants and examination of alternatives for the motorway link between Baden-Airpark and the A5 motorway (client: Rastatt District Office, 2016–2021)
• Improvement of access to the Haiterbach / Waldachtal Industrial Park (Client: Town of Haiterbach, 2015–2016)
• Scientific consultancy on the development of the climate protection sub-concept ‘Cycling Mobility in the Rhine-Neckar District, City of Mannheim, City of Heidelberg’ (Client: Rhine-Neckar District, 2014–2015)
• Road development plan for the Calw District (Client: Calw District; 2014–2015)

Maintenance Management / Asset Management:

• ‘Survey and assessment of pedestrian and cycle facilities’ (Client: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, represented by the State Agency for Roads, Bridges and Waterways, Asset Management Division, 2026 – ongoing)
• FE project “Further investigations into linking calculated service life forecasts to the PMS” Federal Ministry of Transport, represented by the Federal Highway Research Institute; 2023 – ongoing
• FE project “Determination of the financial requirements for road maintenance in local authorities, taking into account the life cycle and maintenance strategies, and development of a system of key performance indicators relevant to management” (Federal Ministry of Transport, represented by the Federal Highway and Transport Authority; 2023 – 2026)
• FE project: Further development of the assessment methodology for local roads (Federal Ministry of Transport, represented by the Federal Highway Research Institute; 2023 – 2025)
• Preparation, support with tendering and implementation, and quality assurance for a condition survey and assessment of the road network in the city of Karlsruhe (Client: Karlsruhe Civil Engineering Office, 2023 – ongoing)
• Preparation, support with the tendering process and implementation of an inventory data collection, as well as a condition survey and assessment of the City of Dortmund’s independently managed cycle network (Client: Dortmund Civil Engineering Office, 2022 – 2025)
• Preparation, support with the tendering process and implementation of an inventory data collection as well as a condition survey and assessment of the road network of the City of Dortmund (Client: Dortmund Civil Engineering Office, 2019–2024)
• Preparation, support with the tendering process and implementation of a condition survey and assessment of the road network of the Berlin Senate (Client: Berlin Senate Administration; Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, 2019–2026)
• Scientific consultancy on the design and development of the Münster Civil Engineering Infrastructure Management (TIMM) system (on behalf of the Münster Civil Engineering Office; 2018–2022)
• Design of the maintenance management system for the roads of the State of Berlin, preparation of the tender for an EMS software package and quality control of its implementation (Client: Berlin Senate Administration; 2017–2024)

Road Safety

• Safety audits for cycle infrastructure (audit phases 1 to 5) for the local authorities of Freiburg, Pforzheim, Mannheim, Kandel, Heidelberg, Offenburg, Landau, Lörrach and Ettlingen, 2023 – ongoing
• Presentation of options for an in-depth accident analysis (client: Ministry of Transport, Baden-Württemberg, 2025)
• Criteria for detecting clusters of accidents or anomalies in cycle traffic (client: Ministry of Transport, Baden-Württemberg, 2026 – ongoing)
• Conducting a safety audit in accordance with RSAS – Audit Phase 3 (implementation planning) on the A5 motorway, Herbolzheim section (Client: Autobahn GmbH, South-West Branch, 2025)

Road Operations / Winter Maintenance:

• FE Project ‘Sustainable Planning and Design of Road Maintenance Depots’ (Client: Federal Ministry of Transport, represented by the Federal Agency for Roads and Transport; 2021–2025)
• In-depth analysis and optimisation of liquid gritting in the Free State of Thuringia’s winter maintenance programme (Client: Thuringian State Office for Construction and Transport; 2022–2023)
• Consultancy services: ‘New gritting material storage facility in Mannheim and strategic development of winter maintenance’ (Client: Mannheim Urban Services; 2022–2023)
• Research project: ‘Further development of green space maintenance in road maintenance services from an economic and ecological perspective’ (Client: Federal Ministry of Transport, represented by the Federal Highway Research Institute: 2021–2024)
• Research project: “Potential analysis for the use of automated/autonomous technologies (machinery and vehicles) in road maintenance services on motorways”, participation in a subcontract for Albrecht Consult, Aachen, 2021–2022
• Development of a detailed road maintenance concept for Baden-Württemberg (Client: Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport, 2021–2022)
• Revision of the concept and planning for the digitalisation of road inspection and maintenance in the Karlsruhe district (Client: Karlsruhe District Road Authority)
• Research project “Ensuring the safe passability of federal trunk roads during heavy snowfall” (Client: Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, represented by the Federal Highway Research Institute; 2019–2022)
• Research project “Effectiveness and cost-efficiency of grit storage” (Client: Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, represented by the Federal Highway Research Institute; 2017–2020)
• Consultancy services for the operational services component during the tender preparation phase for the A 49 Fritzlar–Ohmtal Interchange availability model (Client: Herrenwald Consortium, c/o BAM PPP Deutschland GmbH; 2018–2019)
• Revision of winter maintenance planning for the district of Karlsruhe (Client: Karlsruhe District Office; Roads Department; 2016–2019)

Digitalisation and BIM in the transport sector:

• Digitalisation in motorway operations (Client: Autobahn GmbH, 2026 – ongoing)
• External support in Work Package 2 ‘Software for DIGI tasks 1B, 3 and 4’ for the detailed design, tender preparation and planning of integration into the overall project (Client: Landesbetrieb Straßen.NRW, 2025 – ongoing)
• BIM pilot project for road operation and maintenance (Client: Civil Engineering Office of the City of Dortmund, Road Maintenance and Operations; 2025 – ongoing)
• Development of a BIM test model as part of the standardised BIM parameterisation system for federal trunk road construction (Client: Deutsche Einheit Fernstraßenplanungs- und -bau GmbH (DEGES), Berlin, Cologne, 2025)
• Standardised BIM Parameterisation System in Federal Trunk Road Construction (Client: Research Association for Roads and Transport, 2024 – ongoing)
• Digitalisation of Road Operations – Preliminary Study and Strategy Project (Client: Landesbetrieb Straßen.NRW, 2023 – 2025)
• Digitalisation of winter maintenance – preliminary study and support with the preparation of specifications and tendering (Client: Landesbetrieb Straßen.NRW, 2021–2023)
• Digitalisation in road maintenance – requirements analysis and preliminary concept (Client: Hessen Mobil; 2020–2024)
• FE project ‘BIM expansion through the implementation of building material data for roads and bridges in the AMS’ (Client: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Vienna; 2020–2022)

Sustainability assessment in the transport sector:

• FE project ‘Sustainability of cycling on rural roads’ (Commissioned by: Federal Ministry of Transport, represented by the Federal Highway and Transport Authority, 2023–2025)
• ‘Expert report on the accounting of greenhouse gas emissions for the construction, maintenance and operation of federal motorways and federal trunk roads (“GHG life-cycle emissions”)’ (Commissioned by: Federal Highway and Transport Authority, 2023–2025)
• Development of Product Category Rules (PCR) for asphalt (Commissioned by: German Asphalt Association, 2023–2024)
• FE project “Decarbonisation of noise barriers for a sustainable future of road infrastructure” (Commissioned by: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Vienna; 2022–2025
• Research project: ‘Literature review on sustainability in road construction’ (contribution as a subcontractor to RWTH Aachen University, 2021–2022)
• CO₂ calculation for the Osthoffstraße 4 construction project (on behalf of the Münster Municipal Planning Office, 2021)

Sustainability assessment in building construction:

• BNB certification of the new building for the Heilbronn building yard of the Neckar Waterways and Shipping Authority (WSA), 
  office and staff facilities, plus corresponding application to training and office spaces in the workshop and storage building; Silver Seal of Quality; BNB Coordinator (Client: HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH, 2023–2026)
• The path to a climate-neutral Merzig Road Maintenance Depot: DGNB recertification – buildings in operation, Platinum certificate for sustainably operated buildings, DGNB auditor (Client: Saarland State Road Construction Authority; 2023–2026)
• ESG verification against the EU taxonomy for an office and laboratory building, ESG Manager (Client: Projekt Gerwigstraße 67 GmbH; 2025)
• ESG verification against the EU taxonomy for an office and production building, ESG Manager (Client: Eindhoven-Allee Projekt GmbH; 2024)
• The path to a climate-neutral Merzig Road Maintenance Depot: DGNB certification – buildings in operation, Gold certificate for sustainably operated buildings, DGNB auditor (Client: Saarland State Road Construction Authority; 2021–2022)

Selected committee membership

• FGSV AA 3.11 Road Operations (Prof. Holldorb, member)
• FGSV AA 4.6 Sustainability in Road Construction (Prof. Holldorb, member)
• FGSV Working Group 3.11.9 Digitalisation in Road Operations (Prof. Holldorb, chair)
• FGSV Working Group 4.6.2 Environmental Protection and Resource Conservation (Prof. Holldorb, member)
• FGSV Working Group 3.11.10 BIM in Road Operations (Prof. Stöckner, member)
• FGSV Quality Assurance Group 8 BIM within the FGSV (Prof. Stöckner, chair)
• FGSV AA 4.1 Road Maintenance Management (Prof. Stöckner, Chair)
• FGSV Working Group 4.1.2 Maintenance of Local Roads (Prof. Stöckner, Member)
• FGSV Working Group 4.1.4 Condition Assessment and Maintenance of Cycle Facilities (Prof. Stöckner, Member)
• FGSV LA 4 Infrastructure Management (Prof. Stöckner, member)
• FGSV AA 3.12 Winter Maintenance (Prof. Cypra, member)
• FGSV AK 3.11.8 Climate Protection in Road Operations (Prof. Cypra, member)
• German representative on TC 3.2 ‘Winter Service’ of the World Road Association PIARC (Prof. Cypra)
• Saarland State Accident Commission (Prof. Cypra, associate member)

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• “We’ll need a different kind of currency for transportation infrastructure” (Transfer 2/2021)
  An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Markus Stöckner, Professor Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Cypra, and Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Holldorb, Steinbeis Entrepreneurs at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Infrastructure Management in Transportation (IMV)
• Editorial (Transfer 2/2021)
  
• “You have to set up the system in such a way that it takes economic, environmental, and social factors into account” (Transfer 1/2020)
  An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Markus Stöckner, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Infrastructure Management in Transportation (IMV)
• A sustainable solution to potholes (Transfer 1/2019)
  Potential solution provided by a life cycle assessment of transportation infrastructure based on building information modeling
• “Probably the biggest challenge at the moment will be to solve mobility systems as part of an overall strategy” (Transfer 1/2017)
  An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Markus Stöckner, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Infrastructure Management in Transportation

Videos

• Steinbeis Lunchbreak | Grab a bite with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Stöckner und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Holldorb (German version) (2023)
  Markus Stöckner and Christian Holdorf demonstrate how digitalization, sustainability, and lifecycle management are transforming transport infrastructure. Through the use of BIM, digital twins, and field-tested planning approaches, it becomes clear how the transfer of industry expertise helps municipalities and public authorities develop infrastructure that is efficient, resilient, and fit for the future.