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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Klimaaktiv describes itself as Austria's leading climate protection initiative. It is responsible for implementing measures to achieve the national climate goals and promotes, networks and advises companies and organisations on their way to improving their climate performance. Numerous scientists collaborate with Klimaaktiv and help to transfer their knowledge into practice. On Monday, 10 June 2024, [...]
On April 16 and 17, Martin Loidl and Christian Werner represented the Mobility Lab at the national cycling summit "15. Österreichischer Radgipfel" in Wiener Neustadt. With a total of four contributions we gave diverse insights into our current research and our Open Source Software "NetAScore". The contributions were well received by the audience and led [...]
Last week our doctoral researcher Lucas van der Meer went to Munich to attend the MobilTUM conference. This is a conference organized by the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on the future of mobility and urban space. Special attention was paid to the concept of the [...]
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“ [...]
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". [...]