Wolfgang Schade: has worked for more than seven years (10/1997 – 01/2005) at the Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW).
 In March 2005 he has started working at Fraunhofer-ISI in order to support the establishment of a transport research group.
 Before he worked as business consultant in the field of knowledge based systems engineering at ABACON GmbH and Dr. Schade & Partner GmbH (1993-1996).
 In first half of 2001 he is seconded as National Expert to the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS, EC-DG-JRC). His diploma thesis (Master) was about limits for environmental pollution by transport (1997).
 In 2004 he completed his PhD on: "Strategic Sustainability Analysis: concept and application for the assessment of European Transport Policy".
 His research work covers among others the development of an SEA scheme on German national level on behalf of the German EPA, modelling of environment and macroeconomic models and integration together with regional economics and transport models within system dynamics models (ASTRA for EU-DG-VII, ESCOT for OECD-UBA) including the preparation and maintenance of the ASTRA database, modelling of the employment effects of technology policies, development of assessment schemes for indirect effects of transport policies (IASON, TIPMAC for EU-DG-TREN), long-term forecasting of economic and transport trends for an extended EU (LOTSE for DG-JRC) and assessment of road pricing policies (DESIRE for EU-DG-TREN).
 He has successfully co-ordinated the European projects ASTRA and LOTSE.
 He is participating and contributing to scientific associations of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS, member of the scientific committee), System Dynamics Society and International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE).