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.

Visit from Dr Renate Thiede: Statistics Meets Mobility Research

By Martin Loidl|2025-06-24T21:45:37+02:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: GI Mobility Lab Blog|Tags: Africa-UniNet, Mobility Research, Spatial, Statistics|

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 [...]

AGILE conference 2025 in Dresden: Co-organization of the workshop “Walking the X-min city”

By Christian Werner|2025-06-17T16:09:45+02:00June 17th, 2025|Categories: GI Mobility Lab Blog, NetAScore|Tags: AGILE conference, Dresden, NetAScore, walkability, workshop|

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 [...]

VeloCity Conference 2025 in Gdańsk: Mobility Lab Presents Research on Cycling Networks and Digital Twins

By Martin Loidl|2025-06-13T20:52:02+02:00June 13th, 2025|Categories: GI Mobility Lab Blog|Tags: CITWIN, Danzig, Gdansk, velocity, VISION|

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 [...]

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.