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 [...]
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 [...]
The Mobility Lab was prominently represented at the 16th Austrian Cycling Summit in Saalfelden, contributing its expertise to several key programme elements. Dr Martin Loidl, head of the lab, co-organised a panel discussion with Tadej Brezina from TU Vienna on the topic “Austrian Cycling Research – Bridging the Gap to the Practice of the Mobility [...]
Assessing the impact of cycling measures is a key challenge in transport planning. Teaming up with Herry Consult, TU Dresden and EBP Schweiz, we aimed to uncover precise insights. Through an extensive literature review, consultations with over 160 experts, and analysis of thousands of trajectories, we crafted the VERA guidelines for cycling planning. Curious? Dive [...]
Two days in Stockholm in January sounds like snow, short days, cinnamon buns ... and digital twins. Together with the project partners from the CITWIN project, Lucas (Luuk) van der Meer and Martin Loidl discussed the progress of the conceptual work on a digital twins for urban mobility systems and entered into an [...]
Behind the cryptic acronym CIVIS BIP HUS vlies a great idea. CIVIS is a European university alliance to which PLUS also belongs. One of the aims of this alliance is to be able to offer cross-university teaching for students. The second abbreviation plays a decisive role here. BIP stands for Blended Intensive Programme. This is [...]
Klimaaktiv describes itself as Austria's leading climate protection initiative. It is responsible for implementing measures to achieve the national climate goals and promotes, networks and advises companies and organisations on their way to improving their climate performance. Numerous scientists collaborate with Klimaaktiv and help to transfer their knowledge into practice. On Monday, 10 June 2024, [...]
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“ [...]
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 [...]
In June of this year, we had the privilege of attending the AGILE 2023 conference organized by The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. The conference took place at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and revolved around the overarching theme of "Spatial Data for Design". The presentations covered a wide range [...]