Celebrating Dana’s PhD Success!
Today marks a proud milestone for the Mobility Lab: Dana Kaziyeva successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “Advancing Transport Models Using Agent-Based Modelling and Geoinformatics” at the University of Salzburg. Dana joined the Mobility Lab as a research assistant in 2017 and quickly became a driving force in several projects. Her journey began with FamoS, [...]
Rethinking Mobility: What Teens Taught Us About Streets
In October and November 2025, the Mobility Lab at the University of Salzburg partnered with SALIS Salzburg International School to explore how young people experience everyday mobility. Through interactive workshops with 13–14-year-old students, we asked a simple question: What do teens notice, value, and aspire to in their streets? The sessions combined creative and reflective [...]
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 [...]