In June of this year, we had the privilege of attending the AGILE 2023 conference organized by The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. The conference took place at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and revolved around the overarching theme of "Spatial Data for Design". The presentations covered a wide range [...]
Fotos: H.-Chr. Gruber We are happy to announce the successful organization of the DyMoN Summer School titled " GIS and psychology meet for behavioural change in mobility: Innovative digital interventions for sustainable mobility". The summer school took place at the University of Salzburg from June 27th to July 6th, 2023. We would like [...]
Uppsala, Sweden. Sunny weather, a green and bicycle friendly old town, and phantastic hosts. We could not imagine a better setting for the annual DyMoN project meeting taking place on May 22nd and 23rd. Together with partners from multiple, very different domain backgrounds, we have been researching and developing situation-aware nudges for promoting sustainable mobility [...]
From May 9-12 2023, the Velo-City conference took place in Leipzig, Germany. It is a key event for the domain of cycling mobility, bringing togehter experts from science, planning as well as the public sector and politics. Within a session by Cylcle Competence Austria, Christian Werner presented data and methods we use at PLUS Mobility [...]
Beginning of this year we had a pleasure to present intermediate results of the DyMoN project at the Connected Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. The conference is an annual event organized by Open & Agile Smart Cities where international member cities and partner organizations meet to exchange experiences and [...]
We invite students and experts, who share interest in sustainable mobility to participate in the DyMoN Summer School “GIS and psychology meet for behavioural change in mobility: Innovative digital interventions for sustainable mobility”. The school will take place in the beautifull, mountainous city of Salzburg, Austria, from June 27th to July 6th, 2023. It is [...]
After almost two years of more or less home office and limited contact opportunities, the whole Z_GIS team could finally meet again in mid-May. A lot has happened since the last plenary meeting: the new Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences has been founded and we have been integrated into it, with Prof. Thomas Blaschke [...]
University research does not take place in an ivory tower. At the Mobility Lab, it is our pleasure to really live open research and to involve curious people from 'outside'. In the POSITIM research project, we are developing and testing a mixed methods approach for investigating the effects of measures in road space. Not on [...]
During a 2-days retreat at Mattsee lake, our team had fruitful discussions on current projects and future research topics mixed with walks, quick swims and chit-chats. By exchanging methodological aspects of each ongoing project we could identify synergies and the areas of interest for future research contributions. Our visions concentrated around the topics of sustainable [...]
Last week, Ursula Witzmann-Müller and Martin Loidl were invited to Radiofabrik, Salzburg's independent radio station. The conversation with the host revolved - in keeping with the current focus on cycling in the series unerhört! - cycling as an everyday means of transport, research on the topic, the contribution of geoinformatics, and the current challenges and [...]