Which impact can you expect from cycling measures?
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 [...]
Speaking at the annual conference of the South African Statistical Association
Although 2025 has started it may not be too late to shortly look back at the end of 2024. In November, I (Lucas van der Meer) was asked to give a workshop and a talk about spatial network analysis at the annual conference of the South African Statistical Association in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The invitation [...]
Annual CITWIN meeting in Stockholm
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 [...]
SAFARI Project Kick-Off
With October 2024 the new project SAFARI started, which is not about observing wild animals, but about the mobility barriers of vulnerable groups in rural areas. The aim of this collaborative research endeavor is to make barriers visible and to include data sources beyond traditional mobility data. Driven by rapidly advancing digitalisation, new opportunities are [...]
CIVIS BIP “Healthy Urban Systems”
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 [...]
Assessing bicycle accessibility to mobility hubs
Multi-modal mobility hubs are a hot topic in urban planning. One of their core functions is to enable a seamless connection between the bicycle for first-mile and last-mile travel, and trains and buses for longer distance travel. This makes it essential that they are well accessible by bicycle. For a small applied research project, we [...]