Welcome to the M-Five GmbH
Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics
M-Five
M-Five offers holistic research and constultancy services with the focus on mobility of the futures, climate protection in the transport area, the automotive industry and macroeconomic analysis. Innovations for the realisation of sustainable mobility represent a link between the topics.
M-Five’s core competences include analysing the innovation systems of the various modes of transport and developing possible alternative futures for mobility, ecnomic and social structures.
The scientific background of our experts enables a systemic approach that integrates know-how about the mobility industries, about the political and technological framework conditions, about the actors and their strategies with the methods of systems analysis and system dynamics modelling. As a result, we deliver strategic recommendations to policy-makers, businesses and NGOs that are based on scientific, qualitative and quantitative reasoning.
MOBILITY OF THE FUTURE – FIFTH-MODE
Mobility will change drastically over the next 5 to 15 years. New mobility concepts as part of the sharing economy, electric mobility, self-driving vehicles and the climate mitigation efforts and awareness will be drivers of this mobility transition.
TRANSPORT AND CLIMATE PROTECTION
The transport sector is responsible for about 25% of European greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Today still 95% of energy used in transport is based on fossil fuels.
Economics
In economics the debate between neo-liberal market-driven concepts and post-keynesian stimulus policy has re-gained momentum with the financial and economic crisis of 2008/09.
Scientific lead
M-Five is running its research and consulting projects under the scientific leadership of Dr. Wolfgang Schade. Wolfgang started his scientific career 1997 at the Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW, today ECON) at the University of Karlsruhe, which is now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Team
We are highly qualified scientific team players, system dynamics experts, mobility enthusiasts, sustainability implementers and data freaks. This combination of scientists (m/f) enables us to provide precise consultation from climate protection and economic change to the mobility of the future.
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Digital Mobility Platforms
The project examines platform-based mobility concepts according to the MaaS principle, which bundle private, shared, and public offers, and evaluates regulatory frameworks.
Transformation of automotive industry
Our experts have been engaged with the transformation of the automotive industry for a decade, which they first investigated on behalf of the German Bundestag and subsequently wrote the book on the Seven Challenges for the German Automotive Industry (2014).
