Urbanes Mobilitätslabor B Background The initiative Urban Mobility Laboratories (UML) of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) supports the creation of novel, experimental environments in which innovative mobility and transport solutions can be researched, tested and implemented by science and industry together with citizens, politics and administration as well as other stakeholder [...]
Malawi Atlas Malawi Disaster Management Portal The MalawiAtlas is a web portal that visualizes geospatial data in the context of disaster management. It contains various layers containing UAV images, demographic data, lancover and natural hazards. It also has a print functionality that enables the user to export PDFs of the viewed map. Furthermore it [...]
SINUS Sensor Integration for Urban Risk Prediction B Background The project ‘SINUS’ (Sensor Integration for Urban Risk Prediction) explores the feasibility of matching wearable physiological sensors with data interfaces of urban data ecosystems for improving the current state of the art of predicting risk patterns for vulnerable road users in urban road networks. [...]
Music Map B Background Music is bound to space and time, i.e. it is played, sung, created, heard, practiced, imparted, taught etc. at a certain place at a certain time. Within the framework of the Salzburg Music Map, an extensive data collection on the spatio-temporal distribution of music and musical practices in the city [...]
Social media targeting dashboard for online fundraising activities M Methods New donors are identified through their activity on social media networks such as current and past tweets, posts and statements in social media that can reflect their emotional involvement in an event. These activities are prefiltered with state of the art machine learning algorithms [...]
L'd Up A study of the L train disruption in New York City B Background In the spring of 2019, the L train in New York City will undergo a sustained period of repairs. We can learn a lot about the value of transportation infrastructure by observing the effects of this disruption. [...]
POSITIM Pre- and Post-Evaluation of Interventions in the Urban Mobility Space B Background Interventions in urban space are happening frequently. These can be classical maintenance of the infrastructure but also projects for increasing the attractivity of the district. These changes have an high impact on the human perception, but is very seldom investigated in detail. [...]
Improving Walking Conditions for Pedestrians by Combining “People as Sensors” data with Data from Existing Approaches M Methods The project Walk&Feel conducts a study with 60 test persons in three different areas. The test persons will wear smartbands that measures physiological characteristics like blood pressure volume, skin temperature and galvanic skin response. Additionally the [...]
Integration of social media analysis and crowdsourced information within both the Mapping and Early Warning Components of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS)
Cross-border Cooperation in Logistical Support in Crisis Situations M Methods The project team will evaluate the current state of the governmental cooperation in crisis situations and identify improvable procedures in the logistical support. The logistical support provides necessary services to support the affected population and to improve rescue services or preventive measures. Therefore, the international [...]
