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 [...]
At the end of January our group leader Martin Loidl and doctoral researcher Lucas van der Meer traveled to Liège in Belgium for the official kick-off meeting of the CITWIN project. This brand new project is funded through the European partnership Driving Urban Transitions (DUT). It aims to explore the potential and challenges of urban [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No two cyclists are alike. The demands and behaviors of cyclists can be very different. Thus, it is enormously challenging to implement adequate measures for all to promote cycling mobility. On the basis of a bunch of different data and a unique mixed-method approach, we could identify and describe four distinct types of cyclists in [...]
At the end of September, the European Cycling Summit 2018 took place under the general motto "Cycling Culture Moves" in Salzburg. All project partners were actively involved in the summit's program and contributed to a very lively, successful event. Z_GIS was not only responsible for the entire organization and the conference program, but also presented the [...]
The Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) invited research project consortia of the latest call on June 21st. Representatives of all research projects, funded in the 9th call of the program "Mobility of the Future” gathered in Vienna for an inspiring networking event. The goal of this workshop was to present recently kicked-off [...]
Die Radroutinganwendung www.radlkarte.eu ist ein idealer Demonstrator von Modellen und Algorithmen die in der Arbeitsgruppe entwickelt wurden. Hier können Sie lesen, wie es "unter der Motorhaube" aussieht ...