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 [...]
The Mobility Lab at the Austrian Cycling Summit 2025 in Saalfelden
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 [...]
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 [...]