DAVeMoS

DAVeMoS will host the 17th International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) triennial conference in Vienna, on 14-18 July 2024. Further information can be found in here.    

Today BOKU's Future conference on Energy and Mobility topic was well attended. It was opened by our Federal Minister in Climate Action and we had the legendary Danish architect Jan Gehl as the keynote speaker.   

DAVeMoS co-organised a FSV planning seminar which focuses on the possibilities and limits of traffic/transport demand forecasting. Ten presentations were delivered and a number of workshops were organised. The event was full-booked and many great ideas were discussed together.

Our IVe Guest Professor, Samantha Jamson (from Leeds), gave presentation based on Trustonomy project which aimed to discover in which situations trust in vehicle automation can reduce and increase. One of the messages was: whilst the trust can be regained after a disappointment, it will not be the same trust as before.

DAVeMoS member, Roxani Gkavra will talk about SmartHubs project at 'Women in Mobility' event in Vienna. Further information of the event can be found in here.    

DAVeMoS took part in the Austrian-Swedish Innovation Exchange Day, with stakeholders, researchers and industries, which took place in 'Sweden House' in Vienna.   

ZeroFlex project focuses on the development, construction and broad demonstration operation of flexible and highly innovative mobility points (ZeroFlex station) as an important basis for the dissemination of zero emission technologies and the associated reduction in greenhouse gases. It is funded by FFG. Further information can be found in here.

The second edition of IATBR News now is out. The issue focuses on travel behaviour, integrated planning, and celestial logistics system in space mobility era. The newsletter can be found in here.   

We have new team member Igor Woloschtschuk and also our new visiting PhD student Victor Flensburg from DTU - Technical University of Denmark and BahneDanmark. Igor will help us to deploy our new DRT survey in Salzburg, and Victor will work on his research in estimating rail transport demand based on smartcard data and national travel survey.

DAVeMoS team gave 1 podium, 1 poster, and 2 sub-commitee meetings presentations at the 102nd US TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, USA. US TRB is the largest transport conference in the world, and we presented our results on DRT analysis in rural area, hazard perception analysis with VR, and super-apps-use diary collection.

DAVeMoS is hosting the IATBR (the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research)'s world webinar series which will take place on July 6, 2023, at 09:00 CEST, and will focussing on travel behaviour research in South East Asia Region. Further information of the event can be found in here.   

DAVeMoS, together with colleagues from TU Munich and IUAV Venice, co-organised a special issue on the topic of integration between passengers and freight transport. 10 articles were collected from around the worlds to discuss about trends, gaps and further challenges. The copy of the editorial can be found in here.    

DAVeMoS' spring 2023 newsletter now is out and can be found in here for German version and in here for the English version.    

Our SmartHubs' Deliverable 2.3 on Governance Frameworks for Mobility Hubs in the SmartHubs Living Lab Areas has been finalised, and the summary document can be found in here and the full report can be found in here.

DAVeMoS is hosting the first IATBR (the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research)'s world webinar series will take place on April 5, 2023, at 12:30 CEST, and will focussing on travel behaviour research in South Asia Region. Further information of the event can be found in here.   

DAVeMoS member, Shun Su, presented his work at NECTAR Cluster 4 workshop on An experimental dataset to study the behaviour of E-Scooter users in virtual reality through physiological measurement. The workshop was organized by LAET-ENTPE (University of Lyon), Lyon, France.   

Using data from Italy and Sweden, this study analyses the impacts of the pandemic on the transition to online shopping activities, and identifies who among the respondents changed their shopping behaviour the most and how; and what the different shopping strategies are and who adopted them The paper can be found here.   

This study examines the correlation between mode choice for commuting and multi-regional integrated ticketing. The results suggested that integrated ticketing has an overall positive effect on promoting greater public transport use; in particular, male car commuters compared to females are more likely to switch to PT for commuting. The paper can be found here.   

With beginning of the year, we have another change within our team composition. Anugrah Ilahi will start his academic position at University of Indonesia and Martin Hinteregger have joined SCHIG mbH. For incoming, now we have Claudia Andruetto and Robin Palmberg from KTH and CrossModal AB who will stay with us during this winter/spring semester to collaborate on system level impacts of electric freight transport and upgrading our multimodal VR lab.

Our multimodal virtual reality platform now is complete. With this platform we can develop a multi-player’s experiment with different road user interactions and different urban settings. The platform is modular based, means the travel mode is 'plug-ins', and can be changed and multiplied according to the objective of the study.   

Today Professor Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, delivered his guest lecture on evaluating the impacts of electric, autonomous, and shared vehicles on sustainable urban mobility.

DAVeMoS welcomed Dr. John Stone's visit, from the University of Melbourne, to discuss about sustainable transport issues in both countries.    

DAVeMoS, by the request of the Province of Salzburg, is analysing the changes in users' and stakeholders' behaviours due to recently launched on-demand-service, Loigom Shuttle, in the mountainous Leogang region.    

The 3rd SmartHubs symposium and research exchange was successfully executed jointly with MOVE21 at the Salaborsa Library of Bologna, Italy. MOVE21 is an EU innovation project, led by the city of Oslo, focuses on demonstrations of zero emission and climate resolution solutions in mobility and logistics nodes. Following this even, another SmartHubs consortium meeting was completed at the Rimini campus of University of Bologna.   

DAVeMoS is starting a new course focuses on the introduction of individual behaviour and choice analysis (856021). All interested students are welcomed to take the course.   

Do you ever wonder the impacts of your intense physical activities, e.g. running and cycling, to the rest of your day's activities' participation? And whether the use of ridesharing for simple short trips would increase/decrease the probability of one to participate in more physical-demanding activities in home and work locations? This study explores the role of convenience travel alternative and the intensity of physically active activities to one's subjective health assessment. The paper can be found here.   

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Behaviour Data Analyses. The deadline to apply is 21 March 2023 (CET time). Further information can be found in here and here.

We are looking for a German speaking Postgraduate Research Associate in transport simulation and analysis. The deadline to apply is 15 March 2023 (CET time). Further information can be found in here and here.