The integrated roadmap "Urban Technologies 2030" for the Federation of German Industries (BDI) showed the development and implementation potential from a municipal perspective.
Market opportunities for efficient technologies for wind energy, CHP plants, fuel cells, micro gas turbines and heat pumps.

"The world is becoming urban", according to the "State of the World 2007" report published by the Worldwatch Institute. For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in the countryside. The "Urban Technologies" roadmap was intended to identify and leverage innovation potential for the German economy for the BDI initiative "Märkte Machen". The roadmap focussed on the energy infrastructure sector. The BDI assumed that the demand for urban technologies would develop dynamically worldwide. The BDI wanted to support German technology leaders with this roadmap in highly competitive times.

The roadmap was based on a mix of methods. A targeted dialogue was conducted with selected experts, users and stakeholders in order to identify key challenges, innovations and future markets.

Dr Roland Nolte (IZT) presented the Roadmap Urban Technologies 2030 at the BDI workshop "Urban Technologies" in Erlangen on 5 February 2008.