2022

The results of the study "Use of Public Transport in Vienna and Surroundings" were presented at the Vienna Chamber of Labour on October 18, 2022.

On October 18, 2022, the results of the study "Use of Public Transport in Vienna and Surroundings" were presented at the Vienna Chamber of Labour (AK Wien) as part of the "Mobility Dialogues" series.

The study was commissioned jointly by the Vienna Chamber of Labour and Wiener Linien and conducted by the Institute for Transport Studies at BOKU. The goal of the project was to gain a deeper understanding, based on detailed local data about Vienna's population, of the characteristics of Wiener Linien annual pass holders. The final results of the study were presented by Maria Juschten and Martin Hinteregger.

The corresponding publication was released by the Vienna Chamber of Labour in the "Transport and Infrastructure" series. The digital version can be accessed here: https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/ppnresolver?id=AC16665282

Golden Diploma for Prof. Ernst Pfleger

10/2022: Golden Diploma for Prof. Ernst Pfleger

Ernst Pfleger studied Cultural Engineering and Water Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) from 1967 to 1972.

Since 1990, he has been teaching at the Institute for Transport Studies (VENIA).

On October 15, 2022, 50 years after successfully completing his studies, he was awarded the Golden Engineering Diploma during the Academic Ceremony.

Congratulations to Prof. Ernst Pfleger!

Sector Coupling: Health and Mobility

A survey of experts, stakeholders, decision-makers, and other actors was conducted to gather experiences, examples, potentials, and ideas.

The sector coupling of health and mobility aims to achieve health and climate goals by promoting active mobility, both as a means of health promotion and as an implementation of the "Health in All Policies" approach in transportation. The goal is to foster stronger cooperation between the health sector, active mobility, and the transport and climate sectors, creating more synergies and positive effects for both areas.

As a first joint step, an online survey was conducted in spring 2021 by the working group (WG) "Sector Coupling: Health and Mobility" among 142 experts and stakeholders. The survey aimed to assess the current state of intersectoral networking in Austria, gather existing experiences, and identify the potential for improving collaboration.

A summary of the results can be found in the
Factsheet on the Online Survey "Sector Coupling: Health and Mobility".

Links:

• https://www.bmk.gv.at/themen/mobilitaet/fuss_radverkehr/sektorkopplung.html
• https://fgoe.org/FGOe_Aktivitaeten_Gesunder_Lebensstil

The Working Group (WG) "Sector Coupling: Health and Mobility"

The working group consists of experts from the following organizations:

• Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK)
• Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS)
• Federal Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection (BMSGPK)
• Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, Fonds Gesundes Österreich (FGÖ)

The group is supported by experts from:

• AustriaTech GmbH
• Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt GmbH)
• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, Institute for Transport Studies
• University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics

WALK21 in Dublin

The Institute for Transport Studies Represented at WALK21 in Dublin with the Project "NTN – Sustainable Mobility Behavior: From Niche to Norm"

The Institute for Transport Studies was represented at this year's WALK21 conference in Dublin by Sandra Wegener with the project "NTN – Sustainable Mobility Behavior: From Niche to Norm."

Sandra Wegener delivered a presentation titled "From Niche to Norm: How to Make Active Mobility the Norm", where she shared the initial results of the NTN project. This project is a collaboration between two BOKU departments. In addition to the Institute for Transport Studies, the Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo) was represented by Patrick Scherhaufer (Project Lead), Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber, and Michael Braito.

The project focuses on social norms in the context of mobility and the tension between these societal norms and actual mobility behavior.

For more information, visit: https://walk21.com/work/conference/ireland-2022/

Celebration of the 32nd Anniversary of the Institute for Transport Studies and Move to the Ilse Wallentin House

On September 15, 2022, the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), celebrated its 32nd anniversary under the name "Institute for Transport Studies" and its move to the new institute facilities in the Ilse Wallentin House. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a timely celebration of the 30th anniversary was not possible, so the event was postponed and held in 2022.

The celebration began with a welcome address by the head of the institute, Astrid Gühnemann, and Nora Sikora-Wentenschuh, Vice-Rector for Finance and Infrastructure at BOKU. The event was hosted by staff members of the institute and accompanied by music from the Presto Saxophone Quartet.

Wolfgang J. Berger and Michael Meschik took attendees on a journey through the history of BOKU and the institute in their presentations. Yusak Susilo, holder of the BMK Endowed Professorship for Digitalization and Automation in Transportation and Mobility Systems at the Institute, presented highlights of current research, showcasing the thematic diversity and methodological versatility of the institute.

The event concluded with a panel discussion titled "Looking Ahead – Teaching and Research for the Future of Transport", featuring Astrid Gühnemann and guests Martin Eder from the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), Werner Pracherstorfer from the Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Bettina Schützhofer from sicher unterwegs GmbH, and Gregor Husner, a student at BOKU. The discussion was moderated by Gernot Stöglehner, head of the BOKU Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences. A poster exhibition provided visual insights into the institute's current research projects.

During a tour of the newly constructed Ilse Wallentin House, where the institute's new facilities are located on the third floor, visitors were given a glimpse into the working environment of the institute's staff. The celebration concluded with a relaxed gathering featuring BOKU beer and wine.

The staff of the Institute for Transport Studies would like to sincerely thank all guests for attending and celebrating together and look forward to seeing everyone again in the future.

Final Networking Meeting

On October 3, 2022, the final networking meeting for the projects under the FGÖ funding program "Active Mobility – Staying Healthy on the Move! Walking, Cycling, Scootering & More in Everyday Life" took place at BOKU.

The funding program supported 10 projects across various settings, including municipalities, workplaces, and schools/kindergartens.

During the event, representatives showcased the highlights of their projects in a "photo garden" and exchanged experiences. The Institute for Transport Studies has been supporting the funding program over the past two years. Sandra Wegener and Juliane Stark presented the initial results of a cross-setting evaluation.

Further information about the funding program and the projects can be found here: https://aktive-mobilitaet.at/

Federal Congress on Municipal Traffic Safety

For the fourth time, the Austrian Research Association for Road – Rail – Transport (FSV), in cooperation with organizations including BOKU, is hosting the Federal Congress on Municipal Traffic Safety in Vienna. As in previous years, the event will be moderated by Wolfgang J. Berger.

The goal of the congress is to inform as many people as possible who are interested in traffic safety about the latest developments in the field. Representatives from municipalities and cities, planners, and government officials are all invited to participate. Students with a particular interest in traffic and traffic safety are also warmly encouraged to attend, with a 50% discount offered as part of the youth promotion program!

Link to the program and registration:

http://www.fsv.at/veranstaltungen/showseminar.aspx?IDTermin=97d73773-8452-4fbb-8633-effcd2c6a50a

IVe/DAVeMoS was well represented at 16th IATBR Conference in Santiago, Chile

We had 4 presentations as below:

1. A virtual reality study of neural and cognitive processing of road hazards - Fidler, M., Palmberg, R., Susilo, Y. and Su, S.

2. Have we unintentionally made some people more socially-excluded than others? Behavioural change analysis from physical to online shopping alternatives during Covid-19 pandemic - Susilo, Y., Andruetto, C., Bin, E. and Pernestål, A.

3. The impact of Covid-19 on time use and travel time budget of physical and online activities: Three waves survey in Austria - Ilahi, A., Susilo, Y. and Hössinger, R. 

4. Activity and time-use diary for a neighbourhood telecommuting centre in Stockholm, Sweden - Vaddadi, B., Susilo, Y., and Pernestål, A.

In this conference we also invited IATBR community to attend the next conference which will be in Vienna, 14-18 July 2024, hosted by IVe/DAVeMoS.

Children's University at BOKU

This year, two courses offered by the Institute for Transport Studies were once again part of the Children's University at BOKU.

In the workshop "What Moves You?", children learned about different modes of transportation:

• How good am I at using a scooter?
• How do I read a bus or subway schedule if the app isn't working?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of different modes of transportation?

Children who had always been curious about these questions had the chance to find answers together through exciting obstacle courses and quizzes. Along the way, they could count their steps and discover, for example, how much CO2 was saved and how many calories were burned.

In the workshop "Speeding Through the Streets at 80?", children used weight vests, wheelchairs, white canes, and "aging glasses" to experience the challenges faced by mobility-impaired groups. They attempted to overcome small obstacles such as doors, ramps, or stairs.

The workshop also introduced the BOKU-developed app "What's up?", which is used to evaluate street spaces.

Contributors: Juliane Stark, Sandra Wegener, Valerie Batiajew, Martin Hinteregger, Andreas Mattersberger

Presentation of Results and Insights from the ULTIMOB Flagship Project

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Virtual Event

The pilot regions Salzburg, Graz Surroundings, Ötztal, and Tullnerfeld will report on the following topics:

• Implementation of micro-public transport (micro-ÖV) services
• Luggage logistics for sustainable travel for tourists
• Multimodal hubs
• Nudging measures (e.g., video walls)
• Development of a planning tool

In addition, the TNG process (Technology, Users, Governance) is about to launch, and exciting insights from the work on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) via the platform maas-ready.at will be presented.

Guestprofessor G. Flötteröd - Public lecture: Persistent challenges in integrated behavior/network modeling

05/2022: Guestprofessor G. Flötteröd - Public lecture: Persistent challenges in integrated behavior/network modeling

Strategic transport planning models that predict travel demand and behavior in consideration of a congested transport system have been used for many decades. Historically, these models are aggregate and continuum flow based, i.e. human behavior and vehicle propagation are abstracted into a limited number of representative flows.

The last decades have seen the convergence of network flow meso/microsimulations and activity-based travel demand models into “agent-based” model systems that simulate individual synthetic travelers. Greater realism may be expected from agent-based models, given their potentially higher level of detail. However, careful structural modeling is needed to leverage these capabilities.

The talk presents possible advantages of an agent-based approach and emphasizes accompanying modeling challenges.

May 5–6, 2022: FSV Planning Seminar 2022: New Mobility – New Questions – New Models

The 2022 FSV Planning Seminar focused on the topic of traffic models. These models aim to comprehensively represent the transportation system while also illustrating the consequences of interventions or developments. By doing so, they provide a foundation for proactive planning and management of the transportation system in a desired direction.

In recent decades, however, it has become evident that transportation systems are becoming increasingly complex. New forms of mobility, new mobility services, as well as new lifestyles and strategies for managing transportation systems, have emerged. Traffic models must account for these developments to remain relevant and future-proof. Technological advancements also open up new possibilities for traffic modeling. More powerful computers and more precise, extensive data enable further developments in this field. These advancements can be achieved by refining or improving existing models or by developing entirely new approaches to modeling transportation systems.

Building on this, the seminar aimed to discuss the consequences, opportunities, and limitations of applying these models in daily practice. As in previous years, this two-half-day event consisted of a mix of keynote presentations, reflective workshops, and group discussions. This year, the seminar was once again held in collaboration with the Endowed Chair for Digitalization and Automation in Transportation and Mobility Systems at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Ample time was provided for exchanging ideas both within the official program and informally.

Organized by:

The Research Association for Road – Rail – Transport (FSV) in cooperation with the BMK Endowed Chair for Digitalization and Automation in Transportation and Mobility Systems at the Institute for Transport Studies, BOKU.

Venue:

Waidhofen an der Ybbs

24 May 2022: SMACKER Final Conference - Hybrid

THE PROJECT

Remote regions in Central Europe share the same risks and issues related to being at the periphery of main transport networks. Inadequate and under-used services, excessive costs, lack of last-mile services and proper intermodality, poor communication and information to users and car commuting are the challenges that many central European regions face. The SMACKER project addresses those disparities to promote public transport and mobility services that are flexible, demand-responsive and that connect local and regional systems to main corridors and transport nodes.

Soft measures (e.g. behaviour change campaigns) and hard measures (e.g. mobility service pilots for flexible sustainable transport) are used to identify and promote eco-friendly solutions for mobility in rural and peripheral areas to achieve more liveable and sustainable environments, better integration of the population to main corridors and better services feeding main public transport. The project started in April 2019 and will end in June 2022. Main findings based on 6 pilot areas and 10 further regions that have participated in an Enlarged Transfer Programme (ETP) will be presented and discussed in this event.

THE CONFERENCE

Soft Measures & Actions for behavioural Change and Knowledge to embrace peripheral and rural areas

24 May 2022

SMACKER Final Conference - Hybrid

Physical Venue: Ilse Wallentin Haus, Seminar room 29/1, University of Bodenkultur

Peter-Jordan-Str. 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria

Information on transportation and covid

Programme  -  REGISTER NOW

Contact us

If you have any question, please contact us via smacker.conference(at)boku.ac.at

More details about SMACKER

Please visit the project homepage for further details: https://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/SMACKER.html

12. ISCTSC Konference

After Several COVID-Related Postponements, the 12th ISCTSC Conference Took Place in March 2022 in Praia de Porto Novo, Maceira, Portugal

The Institute for Transport Studies was well-represented at the conference with several contributions:

Workshop:

B14 - Activity Tracker and Data Collection Enrichment - Connecting Transport and Health
Chairs: Muhammad Ahsan Habib, Juliane Stark

Presentations:

• Underreported trips, a non-negligible empirical effect of traditional survey methods – A new weighting procedure of data enriching to overcome this bias
  By Gerd Sammer, Christian Gruber, Gerald Röschel, Max Herry, Rupert Tomschy
• Activities and Active Mobility of Children – at the Interface of Travel Behavior and Health Research
  By Juliane Stark, Michael Skok, Cordula Müller, Michael Meschik
• Uncovering Biometric Effects of Spatial and Transportation Elements on Travellers Using Biometric Data
  By Robin C. O. Palmberg, Yusak O. Susilo, Gyözö Gidófalvi, Fatemeh Naqauvi

Posters:

• Time Use during Activities and Trips – Potentials for Analyzing Future Travel and Activity Behavior
  By Martin Kagerbauer, Gabriel Wilkes, Sascha von Behren, Juliane Stark
• Application of the Smartphone-based Mobility Collector in Developing Countries - Comparison with a Conventional Activity Diary Survey
  By Sadayuki Yagi, Deo Nobel, Hirohisa Kawaguchi, Agustina Kimberly, and Yusak Susilo

Sport, Sea & More – Sports Science in Social Responsibility

Under the theme "Sport, Sea & More – Sports Science in Social Responsibility," the Institute of Sports Science at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel hosted the 25th Sports Science University Conference of the German Association for Sports Science (dvs). The conference took place from March 29 to 31 in a digital format.

In the working group "Analysis and Promotion of Movement in Municipal Spaces: Empirical Findings on Active Mobility of Children and Adolescents" of the Commission for Sport and Space, Juliane Stark presented two contributions on child and youth mobility:

• Stark, J; Kaiser, S (2022): Active and Independent School Route Mobility – Example of School Environment Redesign at 'Bunte Schule Währing'
• Stark, J; Neuhauser, H (2022): Evaluating the Quality of Urban Spaces in the Context of Child-Friendly Mobility

BOKU Bikes as »Sustainable Mobility at Universities« in good practice brochure of the VCD

03/2022: BOKU Bikes as »Sustainable Mobility at Universities« in good practice brochure of the VCD. BOKU is thus represented as a university that supports sustainable transport in the direction of a transport turnaround towards sustainable mobility.

The brochure is available on the following page d. VCD (Verkehrsclub Deutschland):
https://diy.vcd.org/vertiefen/themenheft-mobilitaet

Also the Hintergrundpapier zur Broschüre "Sustainable Mobility at Universities" is available for you to download.

The next delivery of BOKU bikes should arrive in March, he said. BOKU is still the only university in Austria that also provides students with special bikes at a reasonable price. More info under
https://boku.ac.at/rali/verkehr/services/boku-mobilitaetsmanagement/boku-bike.

ULTIMOB

03/2022: Presentation of Results and Insights from the ULTIMOB Flagship Project

The flagship project ULTIMOB presented its results and findings in March 2022. Key topics were highlighted by the pilot regions Salzburg, Graz Surroundings, Ötztal, and Tullnerfeld, including:

• Implementation of micro-public transport (Mikro-ÖV) services
• Luggage logistics for sustainable travel for tourists
• Multimodal hubs
• Nudging measures (e.g., video walls)
• Development of a planning tool

In addition, the TNG process (Technology, Users, Governance) is about to launch, and exciting insights from the work on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) via the platform maas-ready.at were presented.

Symposium on Mobility Hub design

Together with the Research Unit Transportation System Planning (MOVE), DAVeMoS was hosting a half-day international symposium on Mobility Hub design which took place in

aspern Seestadt, LAKEFIRST, Eva-Maria-Mazzucco-Platz 2, 1220 Vienna.

The topic of the symposium was "Governance of multi-modality in public space – what options do we have?"

In this symposium, different concepts, visions and implementation experiences of mobility hubs in Austria and other European countries were presented. Furthermore, an assessment ladder, governance and open-source tools for mobility hub planning and design, which we develop through the ERANET Urban Europe project SmartHubs (https://www.smartmobilityhubs.eu/), were presented.

https://www.smartmobilityhubs.eu/symposium-vienna

The agenda of the event can be found in here. 

Final Event of the Seminar "Development of a Traffic Concept" on January 26, 2022

On January 26, 2022, the final event of the seminar "Development of a Traffic Concept" took place in the auditorium of the town of Retz.

Three teams of students presented the results they had developed over the course of the winter semester under the supervision of Michael Meschik and Juliane Stark.

• One team focused on developing measures to improve cycling infrastructure in the town.
• Another team addressed the parking situation in the municipality and presented the results and conclusions of their parking space survey.
• A third team concentrated on improving traffic safety for all road users at three selected intersections.

The presentation of the posters was attended by the mayor, representatives of the municipality, and members of NÖ Regional. Additionally, representatives from Neufeld an der Leitha were present, as this town will be the focus of the seminar in the winter semester of 2022/23.