The Mobility Laboratory

Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

As an independent research institution, Salzburg Research offers know-how and sustainable solutions for complex challenges in the internet of things.

With motion data intelligence, the movement of people and things is made measurable and linked together reliably, and algorithms are developed for meaningful analyses, which therefore improve value added and efficiency. On behalf of zukunftswege.at, research group “Mobility and Transport Analytics” develops and oversees the following three services:

• Real traffic data from private and public transport
• Quality measurement of cycling infrastructure
• Cooperative transport hubs

RSA FG Research Studio iSPACE

With methods from applied geoinformatics, RSA FG Research Studio iSPACE develops innovative planning instruments and tools for evidence-based decision-making and awareness-raising for companies, administrative bodies and the general public, in the context of optimised resource planning and climate protection.

The applications lie in the planning domains of mobility as well as residential and open space development. As a part of zukunftswege.at, solutions that have been developed should be subject to application-based refinement for spatial planning, to support specific planning activities for development of the mobility provision or infrastructure. The scalable methodology (“route analysis”) developed on behalf of zukunftswege.at allows comparative analysis of any locations and routes desired (public transport routes / cycle paths) with respect to commuter dynamics and population structure. The service is suited to identifying potential in the transport system on a wide range of geographical levels (local to national) and to prioritising possible solutions. Among other things, in the context of the Ultimob model project, the service has also been used as a data basis for the development of a multimodal action plan.

Mobility Laboratory | Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS | Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS)

Geographical conditions have a significant impact on mobility. Conversely, mobility shapes the geographical space.
In the mobility laboratory, first-class research is conducted at the interface between geoinformatics and mobility research. Findings produced here are consistently transferred into practical application and published in the relevant specialist fields. Students are included in the continuous expansion of knowledge and supervised in the course of project work and final dissertations.
The expansion of knowledge in the mobility laboratory is largely based upon externally funded national and international research projects. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, geoinformational method innovations in the area of data modelling, network analysis and the modelling of interactions between moving objects and their surroundings are included in a range of mobility-related domains.