Today marks a proud milestone for the Mobility Lab: Dana Kaziyeva successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “Advancing Transport Models Using Agent-Based Modelling and Geoinformatics” at the University of Salzburg. Dana joined the Mobility Lab as a research assistant in 2017 and quickly became a driving force in several projects. Her journey began with FamoS, [...]
Congratulations to Christian Werner! At the Young Investigator Award of the University of Salzburg, he was honoured with a second place for his dissertation "Integrated geospatial network assessment for planning support in cycling mobility". This award recognises outstanding research achievements by young scientists. Christian impressed the jury with his innovative work in spatial network analysis, [...]
A brief reflection on winter darkness, Scandinavian warmth, data-driven cycling research, and a 34-hours train journey - by Christian Werner. Earlier this week I returned from the International Cycling Safety Conference which took place in Oslo, Norway. For me it was the first participation at ICSC - and I really liked [...]
The Mobility Lab at the University of Salzburg is pleased to announce the publication of its latest working paper, summarising the outcomes of the interactive workshop held during the 16th Austrian Cycling Summit in Saalfelden. Organised by the Mobility Lab, the workshop brought together 27 experts from various disciplines to explore the role of digital [...]
This week, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Renate Thiede from the University of Pretoria to the Mobility Lab for a short research stay. The statistician from SpatialLab@UP delivered an engaging lunch talk today entitled “An Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for Identifying Neighbourhoods Within Spatial Road Networks.” Her presentation offered numerous points of connection with our own research [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]