Research projects

Transforming urban mobility for a sustainable futurel
Urban mobility is influenced by personal choices and the design of cities, including land use and how transport systems function. These factors create unique urban mobility cultures that can vary significantly from one city to another. Unfortunately, many of these cultures pose challenges to achieving susceptibility goals, impacting the environment, economy, and social well-being. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TRANSFORM project aims to understand and improve urban mobility practices. TRANSFORM will recruit doctoral candidates to study these issues through a holistic approach. Their research will be part of eight collaborative work packages involving top academic institutions and nine relevant non-academic organisations. The project focuses on training new researchers with essential skills to support sustainable transitions in urban mobility.

This project is carried out by ILS Research gGmbH. The doctoral researcher at ILS Research will complete a research project on ‘Spatial and Temporal Constraints and Opportunities through Reflections of Interactions between Travel Behaviours and Urban Transformations’. The primary objective of this thesis is to propose and evaluate “transitional urban spaces” (e.g. street space redistribution, car-reduced neighbourhoods) and temporal interventions (e.g. speed limits, parking restrictions, congestion charges) for sustainable mobility. This will be achieved by examining ongoing experiments and implementations of transformative policies and applying them to different mobility cultures and case studies.