Research

Research focus and topics:

  • Research on cycling and cycling infrastructure
  • Planning and promotion of active mobility and sustainable mobility
  • Transport development, innovation and safety, also with a focus on transitioning and developing countries
  • Empirical data analysis of mobility behavior
  • Traffic psychology and human factors
  • True cost of transport
  • Inclusive transport planning

Current research projects:

  • BRAVOUR - Needs of Cyclists at Road Works - Traffic Psychological Analysis on User-specific Requirements
  • MOTUS - Mobility Transformation: Key Factors for Sustainable and Resilient Transport
  • CAMA - Collaboration for Active Mobility in Africa
  • Survey on the 9-Euro-Ticket
  • Bicycle Single Accidents - Influence of Infrastructure Elements on Bicycle Single Accidents

Finalized research projects:

  • E-WIN - Efficient winter maintenance on cycling facilities in German cities using the example of the city of Hamburg, 2019 - 2022. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur - BMVI) with funds for the implementation of the National Cycling Plan (Nationaler Radverkehrsplan  - NRVP).
  • Car-free future city - Week of the Good Life, as part of the Future City Project, 2019 - 2021, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
  • Psychological motivation analysis for cycling - commissioned by the city of Herne. Project duration: Jun. 2019-Sept. 2019. .
  • IntegRADtion - Integration on two wheels. Evaluation and further development of integrative cycling measures for people with migration experience in Germany, 2018 - 2020. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur - BMVI) with funds for the implementation of the National Cycling Plan (Nationaler Radverkehrsplan  - NRVP).
  • RadVerS - Behavioral data generated with smartphones in traffic - differentiation of user behavior of different groups of cyclists, 2017 - 2019. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) with funds for the implementation of the National Cycling Plan (Nationaler Radverkehrsplan  - NRVP).
  • Behavioral data generated with smartphones in cycling - review of usability and development of an evaluation guide for actors in cycling planning, 2015 -2017. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) with funds for the implementation of the National Cycling Plan (Nationaler Radverkehrsplan  - NRVP).
  • "True of cost of traffic" - graduate student in the doctoral college "Dike".
  • Pricing psychology and mode choice behavior, especially in road pricing, parking pricing and transit pricing, promotion to "Differentiated Pricing Systems in Urban Transportation".
  • Staff and Project Management at the Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management