I currently work as a research group leader at TU Munich at the Chair for Traffic Engineering and Control and as a Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in the Digital Resilient Cities team. My research interest is in interdisciplinary approaches in urban analysis. This encompasses impact assessment of policy interventions and urban design solutions using mesoscopic and microscopic traffic simulation and statistical GIS analysis. I have experience in presenting these results to citizens and stakeholders, engaging them with digital participation tools and evaluating their design solutions and feedback, which facilitates decision making in urban planning.
Finding a solution in urban and traffic planning requires a quantifiable analysis of options to compare benefits and downsides of planning solutions. My research focus has been on the impact assessment of policy interventions for traffic and evaluating public place configurations.
For my research, I chiefly have worked with the agent-based simulation framework MATSim to implement mesoscopic traffic scenarios for new mobility services or urban transformations. Recently, I have also conducted pedestrian simulations at a smaller scale.
As part of my research, I developed the field of Citizen Design Science, which applies the principles of citizen science to urban design challenges. In this context, I organized participation studies using map-based online participation methods such as public participatory GIS (PPGIS).
This is an overview of the projects I have worked on.
Autonomous busses and on-demand shuttles as part of the public transport system are analysed in this project.
In PRIMA, an experiment is conducted to see how commuters react to the introduction of a CO2 price for their trip.
In cycling experiments on simulators and in real life, the reaction of subjects to potentially stressful situations is analysed.
MATSim with its urban air mobility module is used to simulation air taxis in Vienna and Graz.
This project analyses the traffic impacts of the Barcelona Superblock concept in European cities.
The impact of different automated shuttle services in the rural area is evaluated in this project.
To measure the potential and impact of carpooling for commuting trips, a mesoscopic simulation is enabled.
Mesoscopic simulation is used a method to simulate scenarios for automated shuttle services and city tolls.
This project focuses on measuring the environmental impact of autonomous electric shuttles at macro and micro levels.
The replacement of bus services with carsharing-like microtransit services was investigated as part of this project.
The theory of Citizen Design Science and the application of its methods is key part of this project.
In the scope of this project, several urban challenges were presented to participants of an online design study.
The map-based online participation tool Qua-kit was tested in this project as part of a street festival.
In the scope of this project, I carried of my doctoral thesis on the impacts of electric carsharing systems.
This is an overview of my private projects.