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 [...]
OpenGeoHub Summer School in Poznan, Poland
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the OpenGeoHub Summer School in Poznan. It was framed by the theme "Processing and visualizing large geospatial data using R, Python and Julia". During one week packed with interesting talks and workshops held by well known scientists and open source developers, participants got many [...]
Mobility Lab going abroad: attending GIScience and visiting ITU Copenhagen
Although the sun is still shining bright from the skies over Salzburg, summer is over and the academic year about to start. Under the motto “A good start is half the battle”, our PhD researchers Christian Werner and Lucas van der Meer headed abroad to present their work, drink a pint and meet new people. [...]