Mobility Lab

Spatial conditions significantly influence mobility. Conversely, mobility shapes the geographical area. Members of the Mobility Lab carry out first-class research at the interface between geoinformatics and mobility. The knowledge gained is consistently transferred to practical application and published. Students are involved in the continuous development of knowledge and supervised in the context of project and final theses.

Automated Linux Server Management with Ansible

By Robin Wendel|2026-05-20T15:44:55+02:00May 20th, 2026|Categories: GI Mobility Lab Blog|

Shared Linux servers are often configured manually via SSH, making changes difficult to track and hard to reproduce on additional systems. A well established solution to this problem is declarative infrastructure management with Ansible. Instead of configuring servers step by [...]

Accessibility Analysis via API

By Robin Wendel|2026-05-13T12:19:15+02:00May 13th, 2026|Categories: CITWIN, NetAScore|

In the CITWIN project, a generic digital twin framework is being developed to analyze changes in active mobility infrastructure in the context of the 15-minute city. To integrate accessibility analyses into this architecture, a standalone REST API was implemented using [...]

Long Night of Research 2026: Making Geoinformatics Tangible

By Martin Loidl|2026-04-27T13:33:37+02:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: i-MOBYL|Tags: children, geoinformatics, LNF, Long Night of Research, mobility, young adolescents, youth|

During the Long Night of Research at the Unipark Salzburg, we had the opportunity to show a broad audience how research can make a very concrete contribution to creating liveable cities. Our station was visited by many families and offered [...]

Contribution to Department and University

Research

Knowledge building in the Mobility Lab is largely based on externally funded, national and international research projects. Geospatial, methodological innovations in the field of data modeling, network analysis and the modeling of interrelationships between moving objects and their environment are transferred into a number of mobility-related domains through cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Education

The Mobility Lab is involved in teaching (face-to-face studies, UNIGIS) and provides a stimulating environment for students, who are involved in research activities. Students are supported and mentored in study projects and post-grad research for final theses.

Outreach

Through active media work (social media, web, print, TV), the Mobility Lab makes a strong contribution to the external perception of the department. In addition, the research group is involved in third mission activities, such as the ideas:lab and other outreach events (Lange Nacht der Forschung, ToT, GIS Day etc.).

Networks and Cooperations

A wide-ranging, international network has been established through involvement in research consortia, active participation in scientific conferences and professional associations as well as the organization of events. The network includes colleagues from the academic field, but also representatives of the private sector (especially from planning), authorities (at all levels) and associations. In this environment, the Mobility Lab is perceived as a competence provider, especially in the area of spatial information and active mobility, and offers professional support and collaboration with the mobility management at the University of Salzburg as part of the PLUS Green Campus sustainability initiative.