Prof. Dr. Rolf Moeckel

Former Associate Professor

Rolf Moeckel studied Urban and Regional planning at the University of Dortmund in Germany. During his studies, he spent a year at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA, funded by a Fulbright Scholarship. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Spatial Planning at the University of Dortmund, where he completed his doctorate in 2006. Next, he worked as a Principal Professional Associate with the consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff in the USA. From 2013 to 2015, he conducted research as a PostDoc at the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, USA. In 2015, he became a Rudolf Mößbauer Professor at the Technical University of Munich. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021.

To the great many who knew him, Prof. Dr. Rolf Moeckel was an outstanding modeler, planner, and researcher and a passionate teacher and advisor who shared his expertise in travel behavior and transportation modeling with great dedication and has supervised and inspired many students and junior researchers. He developed several agent-based models and was highly respected in his field—both for his expertise and for his extraordinary kindness.

Prof. Dr. Rolf Moeckel was deeply committed to research in activity-based modeling and played a significant role in the international scientific community. He was a member of the FGSV committee "3.10 Theoretical Foundations of Road Traffic" and actively participated in several committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), including the Transportation Demand Forecasting Committee (AEP50) and the Committee on the Effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Travel (AEP35). Additionally, he was a member of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), and the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).

Those who were lucky to know Prof. Dr. Rolf Moeckel remember him as a warm-hearted, caring, and inspiring person. His absence leaves a great void — both professionally and personally. He will be deeply missed.