Authors
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Juliane Stark
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Sebastian Kaiser
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Florian Aschauer
Keywords:
active mobility, independent mobility, children, school environment, infrastructure
Abstract
This article reports on a case study in the city of Vienna that investigated the influence of redesigning the infrastructure surrounding an elementary school on students’ mobility behavior. The redesign mainly comprised construction and traffic organization measures. The evaluation is based on before-and-after surveys among parents. The results show significantly better ratings in terms of accessibility, quality of stay, and perceived social and traffic safety. While a positive mode choice tendency was observed for school trips of less than 500 m, there were no significant overall changes in mode choice or independent mobility.
Author Biographies
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Juliane Stark
Juliane Stark is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. After graduating (University of Rostock, 2004), she was a research assistant and completed her Ph.D. in 2010. Since 2015, she has been deputy director of the institute. In 2019, she received the venia docendi for the subject of transport planning. Her research focuses on mobility behavior research—especially child/youth mobility—and survey and evaluation methods. In addition to her work as a project manager of (inter)national research and education projects, she teaches in different study programs
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Sebastian Kaiser
Sebastian Kaiser graduated in 2021 with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering and Water Management from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. The topic of his master's thesis provides the basis for this article. Currently he works as a transportation engineer at the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV).
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Florian Aschauer
Florian Aschauer received his PhD at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna and worked at the institute as an assistant researcher on projects focusing on travel behavior analysis. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on travel survey methods, including travel and non-travel related data collection methods and survey design. Since 2020, he has worked in transport infrastructure planning at the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK).
