Cycling Mobility during COVID-19
Everyday life in Austria has been fundamentally changed over the past weeks due to COVID-19. We took this situation as an opportunity to showcase how our observatory can be used for investigating bicycle mobility during the lock-down. For this, we made use of the data that we had collected in our research project and compared [...]
Fundaments for future-oriented cycling culture
We invite delegates of this year's national cycling summit to participate in a workshop on how to use the data collected in our Bicycle Observatory in different application domains. The workshop is going to be held in German language. Thus, we refer to the version of this article. Das Forschungsprojekt Bicycle Observatory untersucht wie [...]
What makes you cycling?
"What makes you cycling?" was the central question, we posed to participants of this year's Raddialog (participatory community event for cyclists, organized by the City of Salzburg). Together with colleagues from another research project (SimpliCITY), we were not only interested in personal feedbacks, but invited participants to slip into the roles of our four [...]
Research data published
In spring 2019, we invited persons for one month to provide insights into their mobility behaviour in a large cycling survey. Today, we are happy to announce the publication of the fully anonymized data in an international Open Access journal. Following an Open Science approach in this research project, we want to create the opportunity [...]
Councilor Berthold visit
Between May 3rd and June 3rd 2019, we conducted an extensive online survey on cycling mobility for our current research project Bicycle Observatory. Over 1,000 persons provided us with insights in their mobility behaviour. Thanks to our sponsors, we were able to award two attractive main prizes to the winners of our raffle. On [...]
VeloCity 2019 in Dublin
Once a year, the global cycling community is gathering at VeloCity conference. There, all aspects of cycling are illuminated from various perspectives. This year's VeloCity took place in the Irish capital, Dublin from June 25th to 28th. Martin Loidl* presented the research project Bicycle Observatory in a dedicated "Scientists for Cycling" session, organized by the [...]