City & Traffic

City & Traffic: International Students Workshop on Transport and Urban Engineering

For the 26th time, BOKU students had the opportunity, within the course “International Placement in Transport Planning,” to develop proposals for improving the design of real streets with concrete traffic problems.

The international workshop “City & Traffic” was first held in 1996 (then under the title “Seminar für Verkehr und Städtebau”) at the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt. Since then, it has taken place 29 times, every year in July, in 14 different cities. Each year, participants spend one week developing improvement proposals for real (street) sections with tangible traffic issues.

This year, the Serbian capital Belgrade was the venue for the second time. From 5 to 11 July 2025, more than 30 students and lecturers from seven countries met there. Six deliberately internationally mixed small groups worked for four days on posters with problem analyses and design variants containing improvement proposals for predefined street sections, squares, or intersections. On the fifth day, the results were presented and critically discussed by the whole group as well as by representatives of the city’s traffic planning department.

From BOKU, five students (as an exception, since normally only a maximum of four per country are allowed) were able to take part in the workshop under the supervision of Wolfgang J. Berger from the Institute for Transport Studies. He contributed as a lecturer for the 26th time.