DAVeMoS

On 16-17 July, at TU Munich, we will organise international workshop which focuses on electrification and automation of road freight transport. This event is part of SeeFar project which is jointly funded by DFG and FWF. The programme of the workshop can be found in here.

A special collection on travel behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe is completed. This issue was edited together with Milos Mladenovic (Aalto University) and Stefanie Peer (WU), and was part of IATBR 2024 special issue. The collection can be found in here.

On behalf of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), Mark Zuidgeest and Prateek Bansal co-organized the 4th webinar, which focuses on the role of emerging neurophysiological data and immersive experiments in travel behaviour modeling.
 

The Speakers are: 
Thomas Hancock & Jamal Amani Rad (University of Leeds), 
Bilal Farooq (Toronto Metropolitan University), 
Bastian Henriquez Jara (Universidad de Chile)

Like in previous years, we are participating again this year in the 2026 Lange Nacht der Forschung (Long Night of Research), Austria’s largest event on science, research, and innovation, aimed at all age groups. This year, we are presenting our VR lab capabilities. 

From 14-16, we hosted a MSCA TRANSFORM doctoral network's spring school. All 30 PhD students and supervisors of TRANSFORM doctoral network gathered at institute to learn, train and research together in exploring different aspects of Behaviour Theories, Mobility Culture, Transformative Policy, System Thinking and many other research related skills. During this week, we also visit our non-academic partners and Aspern Mobility Lab and SeeStadt development as case study area in Vienna.

This paper adopts a longitudinal, mixed-methods living-lab approach to examine factors influencing Neighbourhood Telecommuting Centre (NTC) use compared to employer offices and home offices. Data from a real-life NTC living lab in Stockholm, Sweden, were analyzed using a three-week time-use diary. Qualitative interviews were used to contextualize inconsistencies between participants' expectations and actual usage. Findings indicate that NTCs can reduce commuting times and provide a professional environment closer to home; however, adoption is constrained by organizational norms, logistical barriers and continued reliance on private cars for trip-chaining. The paper can be found in here. 

We proud to host the UNLOCK15 consortium meeting here in Vienna. For 3 days, our city became a "shared laboratory" where researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders from across Europe gathered to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Millions thanks to Mobyome colleagues who have been spearheading the exchange events.  

This study explores how e-shopping and good delivery services shaped individual time allocation across various activities and locations. The study employs a one-week time-use and app-use diary from four Indonesian cities. The paper can be found in here.

This research investigates the physiological stress of e-scooter riders using virtual reality to simulate dynamic traffic conditions on a shared bike lane in Vienna. It provides insights into factors shaping e-scooter riders’ physiological responses provide evidence for analyzing accidents and risky behaviors from a psychophysiological perspective and may guide the development of interventions to enhance e-scooter comfort, safety and integration in shared road. The paper can be found in here.

We will be at NECTAR 2026 conference in Munich, Germany. As an institute we will present 4 (four) of our works in this conference, range from capturing wayfinding behaviour via biometric mechanism to 15-minutes city and young traveller behaviour analyses. The programme can be seen in here. 

With the end of the semester, time to thank everybody and celebrate all the achievements that we have achieved so far this year. Many thanks to everyone for all of your hard work!

This paper investigates how psychological attachment to existing motorcycles shapes the adoption of electric motorcycle conversion (EMC) — a resource-efficient and cost-effective pathway toward decarbonising transport in Indonesia. Using a choice experiment with 929 motorcyclists in Bali and an Integrated Choice and Hierarchical Latent Variables model, we unpack how emotional bonds with existing vehicles shape the decision to convert to electric. The paper can be found in here. 

It is an honour that our BMIMI endowed professorship program, DAVeMoS, has been featured in the FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency’s news feed and success stories page (https://www.ffg.at/success-stories/davemos-neue-wege-fuer-die-mobilitaet-von-morgen). None of this would have been possible without the contribution of each member of the group.

Using a one-year, three-wave panel surveys, conducted in Stockholm, Sweden, this work evaluates the passengers’ real-world experiences in relation to an automated bus operating in mixed traffic on public roads. Latent curve analysis was applied to the longitudinal data to examine the evolution of service evaluations. Further information of the work can be found in here.

Another year where DAVeMoS have privilege to contribute to the Annual Monitoring Report of Automated Mobility in Austria. The report can be found in here. 

Another milestones of DUT DREAMS project: We continue to deploy and evaluate the intervention activities in our living labs. We also organised a Stakeholder Symposium in Budapest which was very well attended. The event involves joint presentations and discussions with other DUT projects. Our consortium meeting was closed with a visit to and a meeting at Rakosmente, DREAMS' living lab location in Hungary.  

Prof Susilo was invited to participate at an AgiMo workshop at TU Dresden which focuses on mobility and time-use survey. In this workshop Prof. Susilo presented his previous experience on collecting a cross-dimensional physical and virtual time and app use diaries.

With the start of the new year, Prof. Susilo will start his role as the new chair of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), for period 2026 and 2027. From this January, Prof. Susilo also will serve as the Associate Editor of Transportation Research part A.

We will be at WCTRS 2026 conference, Toulouse, France. As an institute we will present 8 (eight) of our works in this conference, range from machine learning, object recognition and cognitive load analyses to 15-minutes city and young traveller behaviour analyses. The programme can be seen in here.

After a successful multi-week pop-up activities last summer, "Kultur im Wiener Flur" is returning — this time as a one-day event on 23 June 2026 - ALL IS WELCOME !

The event is part of DREAMS, a research project exploring how co-created, people-centred mobility services can help build more accessible and sustainable neighbourhoods on the urban fringe.
 

This event is organised and hosted by Cornelius Wohlgenannt (stadtland planung GmbH), Linda Dörrzapf (MOVE – Transport System Planning) and Georgia Charalampidou & Yusak Susilo (Institute for Transport Studies (IVE), BOKU University).

Further information can be found in here.

With the acceptance of the final report by the FFG, the DAVeMoS Endowed Professor project which was started on October 2019 to September 2025, finally closed. We started our new professorship/chair during the awake of COVID19 pandemic, which was not an easy walk in the park. Within the 6 years period, we managed to publish 60 journal articles and 72 conference papers, supervised 10 master’s theses and 11 PhD theses, 4 new courses and 1 EPICUR University Alliance lecture series, received 1 teaching award and 1 PhD award, delivered 34 keynotes and guest lectures, secured more than 1.8 million euros of additional funding, and organised 10 national and international conferences, including the 17th IATBR International Conference on Travel Behavior. All of these would not be possible without every team member contribution to the project. BIG THANK YOU to ALL! 

Dr. Miguel Costa, from the Technical University of Denmark gave a seminar on a novel decision-support framework using reinforcement learning (RL) for longterm
flood adaptation planning. More information about the seminar can be found in here.

We will be conducting our wayfinding experiment from 13th to 30th April. We will investigate the learning process mechanisms of individual in recognising his/her neighbourhoods. For further information, please have a look in here.

Our City of Vienna’s Jubileumfond funded project "Spatial Aging & Green Environments for a resilient, elderly-friendly city of Vienna" was celebrated in BOKU. Denissa Purba as the PI of the project received the award. In this project, using biometric measurements we investigate the temporal formation of elderly's spatial cognition and wayfinding.  

In this two days we spent time together, far away from our office, to get to know each other better and also to discuss different issues we have as an institute and how to anticipate incoming changes and challenges. 

This paper aims to provide a cognitive perspective on the hazard perception process in the traffic situation based on the conceptual frameworks of two complementary theories of brain information processing, namely, Signal Detection Theory and Predictive Coding Theory. The study uses an augmented virtuality scenario encompassing a simplified traffic situation, where participants are faced with hazard cues characterised by a different degree of predictability. The work can be found in here.