diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b9dc44a6..8e58c1ef1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -272,15 +272,15 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.22.2</version>
+                <version>3.0.0-M9</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <excludes>
                         <exclude>**/*$*</exclude> <!-- exclude all inner classes -->
                     </excludes>
                     <!-- Don't run multiple tests in one jvm! Class mocking interferes with the integration test -->
-                    <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
+                    <forkCount>1</forkCount>
                     <!-- avoid out of memory errors: -->
-                    <argLine>-Xmx6000m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dmatsim.preferLocalDtds=true</argLine>
+                    <argLine>@{argLine} -Xmx6500m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dmatsim.preferLocalDtds=true</argLine>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
 
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>0.8.8</version>
+                <version>0.8.12</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <goals>