Christian Werner achieves second place in the Young Investigator Award at the University of Salzburg
Congratulations to Christian Werner! At the Young Investigator Award of the University of Salzburg, he was honoured with a second place for his dissertation "Integrated geospatial network assessment for planning support in cycling mobility". This award recognises outstanding research achievements by young scientists. Christian impressed the jury with his innovative work in spatial network analysis, [...]
Impressions from Scandinavia – Christian Werner at the International Cycling Safety Conference 2025
A brief reflection on winter darkness, Scandinavian warmth, data-driven cycling research, and a 34-hours train journey - by Christian Werner. Earlier this week I returned from the International Cycling Safety Conference which took place in Oslo, Norway. For me it was the first participation at ICSC - and I really liked [...]
Data as a Gamechanger: Workshop Insights Now Published
The Mobility Lab at the University of Salzburg is pleased to announce the publication of its latest working paper, summarising the outcomes of the interactive workshop held during the 16th Austrian Cycling Summit in Saalfelden. Organised by the Mobility Lab, the workshop brought together 27 experts from various disciplines to explore the role of digital [...]
Visit from Dr Renate Thiede: Statistics Meets Mobility Research
This week, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Renate Thiede from the University of Pretoria to the Mobility Lab for a short research stay. The statistician from SpatialLab@UP delivered an engaging lunch talk today entitled “An Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for Identifying Neighbourhoods Within Spatial Road Networks.” Her presentation offered numerous points of connection with our own research [...]
AGILE conference 2025 in Dresden: Co-organization of the workshop “Walking the X-min city”
Together with Eva Nuhn (Augsburg University), Emily Wilke (HeiGIT, Heidelberg) and Vasileios Milias (NTUA, Athens), the PLUS Mobility Lab organized a full-day workshop on walkability as part of the AGILE conference 2025 in Dresden. Following the title "Walking the X-min city: Methods and implementations to assess walkability and pedestrian accessibility" the team provided insights into [...]
VeloCity Conference 2025 in Gdańsk: Mobility Lab Presents Research on Cycling Networks and Digital Twins
This year’s VeloCity Conference in Gdańsk, fittingly aligned with the city’s historical legacy, was held under the guiding theme “Energizing Solidarity”. Once again, it brought together well over a thousand international experts, urban planners, activists, and researchers to shape the future of cycling. The Mobility Lab at the University of Salzburg was prominently represented with two [...]