The Mobility Lab at the 15th Austrian Cycling Summit
On April 16 and 17, Martin Loidl and Christian Werner represented the Mobility Lab at the national cycling summit "15. Österreichischer Radgipfel" in Wiener Neustadt. With a total of four contributions we gave diverse insights into our current research and our Open Source Software "NetAScore". The contributions were well received by the audience and led [...]
Presenting the CITWIN project at mobilTUM
Last week our doctoral researcher Lucas van der Meer went to Munich to attend the MobilTUM conference. This is a conference organized by the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on the future of mobility and urban space. Special attention was paid to the concept of the [...]
Great achievement: Elena Gaus wins award for her master thesis
What a great achievement for our former study assistent, Elena Gaus, who received this year's student award at the "GI Runde" (a two-day event for networking in the GIS community) at Technical University Munich. With her master thesis „Evaluation and representation of the risk of intersections for cyclists at lane level – A Geospatial Approach“ [...]
Kicking off the new CITWIN project
At the end of January our group leader Martin Loidl and doctoral researcher Lucas van der Meer traveled to Liège in Belgium for the official kick-off meeting of the CITWIN project. This brand new project is funded through the European partnership Driving Urban Transitions (DUT). It aims to explore the potential and challenges of urban [...]
Camping in October? It’s all possible at the annual meeting of the Cycling Research Board
At the end of October our doctoral researchers Christian Werner and Lucas van der Meer attended the Cycling Research Board Annual Meeting (CRBAM) in Wuppertal, Germany. It is fair to say that this event is quite different from your average scientific conference. At CRBAM the intention is to create an open and inclusive "camping vibe". [...]
Jed Long – Scientist in Residence
We were privileged to serve as hosts for the City of Salzburg's „Scientists in Residence“ for the first time in September. It was a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Jed Long from Western University in London, Ontario (Canada) to our Mobility Lab. Jed is currently on a sabbatical year and successfully applied for one of the [...]