Peter Zeile

Peter Zeile
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | KIT · Institute of Urban and Landscape Design

Dr.-Ing.
ESSEM | Cape Reviso | UrbanEmotionsResearch

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Introduction
Urban Emotions Initiative: how to collect and measure perceptions or "feelings" of people in a city to improve urban planning processes with a new citizencentric layer. Digital Transformation in urban planning through a)Urban Sensing and geodata processing, b)Visualization and simulation of complex projects in urban design, c) Geoweb and mobile solutions for spatial planning, d) Participation processes at local and regional level e) Spatial perception. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality in urban planning and architecture Rethink Urban Villages New Mobility Systems / Micromobility
Additional affiliations
February 2017 - present
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Position
  • Managing Director
November 2011 - November 2011
Alexandria University
Position
  • Group Leader
October 2004 - July 2016
RPTU - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau
Position
  • Managing Director
Education
October 2004 - June 2010

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Publications (88)
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Das Fahrrad nimmt in der Diskussion um postfossile Mobilitätsformen eine wichtige Schlüsselrolle ein und kann vor allem im Stadtverkehr eine bedeutsame Alternative zum motorisierten Individualverkehr darstellen. Fahrradfahren ist nicht nur umweltfreundlich, klimaschonend und kostengünstig, sondern auch förderlich für die persönliche Gesundheit. In...
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Das durch den Nationalen Radverkehrsplan (NRVP) vom Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitaler Infrastruktur (BMVI) geförderte Verbundprojekt Cape Reviso (Cyclist And PEdestrians on REal and VIrtual Shared rOads) befasst sich mit der Problematik, welche möglichen Konflikte Fußgängerinnen, Fußgänger, Radfahrerinnen und Radfahrer im täglichen Verkeh...
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are becoming a more common tool in the practice of urbanism and urban design. Usually, GIS is used to visualize geo-located data to gain inside into the urban fabric, to either plan interventions within it, restructure it, or extend it. One problem for a data-driven planning process with GIS is how to turn the g...
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An important strategy to promote bicycle use is the reduction of the cyclists’ stress levels. An innovative approach to tackle this problem is the LTS (Level of Traffic Stress) scale, used to classify the roads regarding the levels of stress faced by cyclists. However, the parameters used in the LTS classification are not based on stress measuremen...
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There is substantial evidence that the environment has an important impact on the use of bicycles. Changes in the built environment, such as cycling infrastructure provision, usually aim at improving the efficiency, en-joyability and safety of cycling. They can also shape affective responses, for instance by triggering or preventing stress situatio...
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We are living in a digitized world with a fast base of changing and adapting. Our ways of communication have been translated to online platforms with high standards (E.g. emails, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc.). According to that, virtual communities have been developed to mimic the "offline" world. Social network platforms are trying to imitate the phys...
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Walking as a transport mode is still often underrepresented in the overall transport system. Consequently, pedestrian mobility is usually not recorded statistically in the same manner as it is performed for motorised traffic which leads to an underestimation of its importance and positive effects on people and cities. However, the integration of wa...
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The contribution deals with the topic of using virtual design Environment and Building Information Modelling technology (BIM) to create immersive urban situations for real-time experiments. Three questions will be answered: How can architects and urban designer work in the future with simple and consistent workflows to check their models during the...
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Attraktiver, bezahlbarer und gleichzeitig qualitativ hochwertiger Wohnraum zu generieren, vor allem in Regionen mit starkem Zuwachs, ist eine aktuelle Herausforderung, die schon lange über die Ränder der Städte hinausgewachsen ist. Da dieses Thema vor allem auch kleinere Städte und den ländlichen Raum betrifft, wird es um so wichtiger wie wir mit d...
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1 ABSTRACT Die Entwicklung des Radverkehrsanteils kommt in vielen deutschen Städten und Kommunen nur langsam voran. Neben politischen Hemmnissen belegen Studien, dass auch ein fehlendes Sicherheitsempfinden im Radverkehr viele Menschen davon abhält, das Rad zu nutzen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht das individuelle Sicherheitsempfindens von Radf...
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1 ABSTRACT Road safety is an essential design requirement in planning processes of cycling infrastructure. An evaluation criterion for safety are accident statistics, but this criterion lacks reliability with regard to cycling accidents because many accidents are not documented. In addition, an exclusive view of accident statistics only is inadequa...
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Walking is healthy, promotes social contacts and is a basic requirement of mobility. Nevertheless, between 1995 and 2013/14 the modal share of walking in Austria declined from 27% to 17%. However, walking is a big unknown factor in the overall transport system, as it is statistically often unrecorded. This also expresses an underestimation of the i...
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Hoher Siedlungsdruck, fehlende Flächenreserven und stark wachsenden Zahlen im motorisierten Straßenverkehr bei gleichzeitig gewachsenen Ansprüchen an Mobilität stellen Städte vor die Herausforderung alternative Verkehrskonzepte und -Infrastrukturen zu prüfen. Urbane Seilbah- nen könnten hierfür eine Lösung darstellen. Allerdings sind realisierte Vo...
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Dentre as ferramentas de planejamento desenvolvidas para avaliar o nível de estresse a que ciclistas são submetidos ao circular em vias urbanas, o LTS (Level of Traffic Stress) se tornou conhecido por sua simplicidade de aplicação. Contudo, ele foi desenvolvido para um contexto que não necessariamente reflete a realidade da maior parte das cidades...
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Urban and transport planners need to assess the stressful conditions experienced by cyclists, considering that highly stressful situations can discourage people from cycling as a transport mode. Therefore, this study has two objectives: (1) to present a method for monitoring stress and other environmental factors along cycling routes using smart se...
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Grundlage für diesen Beitrag ist die Forschungsarbeit “Dorf neu denken” (Mirkes 2017), die in Teilen hier vorgestellt wird. Das Paper beleuchtet dabei schlaglichtartig die Situation im ländlichen Raum (in Luxemburg) unter den Fragestellungen der kulturellen historischen Bezüge zwischen Stadt- und Landleben, der Bedeutung von Landschaft und ihrer Ve...
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1 ABSTRACT Transport nodes play an important role in the urban functions of the city. In the present context when cities continue to sprawl outskirts or expand in the sky, coupled with problems of urbanization, such as congestion and degeneration of city cores, station areas become an opportunity district for a transformative land use planning. The...
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Das von der DFG und dem FWF geförderte Projekt Urban Emotions versucht in einem experimentellen Ansatz, zwei Positionen zusammen zu bringen: Stehen auf der einen Seite neueste Methoden und Technologien aus den Bereichen Sensortechnologie, Geoinformatik, Wearables und Computerlinguistik, so sind die Ansprüche auf der anderen Seite in Bezug auf Parti...
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Das von der DFG und dem FWF geförderte Projekt Urban Emotions versucht in einem experimentellen Ansatz, zwei Positionen zusammen zu bringen: Stehen auf der einen Seite neueste Methoden und Technologien aus den Bereichen Sensortechnologie, Geoinformatik, Wearables und Computerlinguistik, so sind die Ansprüche auf der anderen Seite in Bezug auf Parti...
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The Urban Emotions initiative uses biosensing technology to determine how people feel in the city, which is of particular relevance for architecture and urban planning. While past experiments focused more on pedestrian or bicycle traffic, accessibility and wayfinding, this paper proposes the use of virtual models as a basis for human sensorial meas...
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This article provides an overview of the use of sensors for data gathering in the context of urban planning. Also new arising forms of participation from a social perspective are considered. Especially the field of “Smart Cities” provides plenty of potential for the application in a connected urban world. This is important, both, for data from sens...
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Traditional urban planning processes typically happen in offices and behind desks. Modern types of civic participation can enhance those processes by acquiring citizens’ ideas and feedback in participatory sensing approaches like “People as Sensors”. As such, citizen-centric planning can be achieved by analysing Volunteered Geographic Information (...
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Even though much research has been conducted on the safety of cycling infrastructures, most previous approaches only make use of traditional and proven methods based upon datasets such as accident statistics, road infrastructure data, or questionnaires. Apart from typical surveys, which are known to face numerous limitations from a psychological an...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Ergebnisse der Studie „Track me if you plan“, die im Rahmen des DFG-Projektes „Urban Emotions“ an der TU Kaiserslautern durchgeführt worden ist. Inhalt der Studie ist die Fragestellung, wie Personen sich im Stadtraum bewegen, was ihre Beweggründe für gewisse Bewegungsmuster sind, wie diese Muster zu identifizi...
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1 ABSTRACT Im Zuge des demographischen Wandels ist ein deutlicher Anstieg des Bevölkerungsanteils an Seniorinnen und Senioren (Personen ab 65 Jahren) in Deutschland abzusehen. Dadurch wächst auch die Anzahl der mobilitätseingeschränkten und behinderten Menschen. Insbesondere für die Gruppe der über 80-Jährigen spielen barrierearme Wege eine große R...
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Safety is one of the most important goods we have these days. When it comes to traffic in our cities and the interactions between the different traffic participants it is especially the everyday cyclist whose need for safety is crucial. How can you measure a good feeling or perceived safety? One possibility is to do a survey for some specific route...
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Zur Analyse und Bewertung städtebaulicher Situationen stellt die, vom Planer durchgeführte, klassische Bestandsaufnahme in der Regel immer den ersten Schritt dar. Bei der Ortsbegehung werden Einzelfotos oder Panoramas aufgenommen, um die Situation festzuhalten und sie später mit anderen Personen diskutieren zu können. Fotos haben allerdings den Na...
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Dreidimensionale Darstellungen haben sich in der Stadtplanung als unverzichtbares Kommunikationsmedium etabliert. Primär fungieren sie derzeit als unterstützendes Instrument in Bürgerbeteiligungsprozessen und bei der Darstellung von Planungsalternativen als Entscheidungshilfe. Moderne computergestützte Architekturmodelle erfahren seit jüngster Zeit...
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Even though much research has been conducted on the safety of cycling infrastructures, most previous approaches only make use of traditional and proven methods based upon datasets such as accident statistics, road infrastructure data, or questionnaires. Apart from typical surveys, which are known to face numerous limitations from a psychological an...
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In contrast to previous approaches, Urban Emotions defines Smart Cities not only as technology-enriched cities, but also emphasises the human factor – Smart Citizens. This is due to the fact that the question of how people perceive a city and how they feel about it has always been important in urban planning and management. In this paper we present...
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One of the main parts in planning is the communication of planninginformation. Not only the decision maker, but also the inhabitants have to be informed on the planned actions, no matter if they are affected directly or indirectly by the planning . The classical two-dimensional visualizations do not offer the required range to present the contents...
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This chapter introduces the ‘Urban Emotions’ approach. It focuses on integrating humans’ emotional responses to the urban environment into planning processes. The approach is interdisciplinary and anthropocentric, i.e. citizens and citizens’ perceptions are highlighted in this concept. To detect these emotions/perceptions, it combines methods from...
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This paper introduces the research field " Urban Emotions " – an interdisciplinary approach combining not only spatial planning and (geo-) informatics, but also computer linguistics and sensor technology methods. A new set of methods will be formed for the area of urban and spatial planning, resulting in a fundamental change of the understanding of...
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The use of wearables in citizens' daily life will increase significantly in the coming years. By analyzing these sensor data, it is possible to detect the emotional well-being in urban areas, which is highly relevant for urban planning purposes. Through the combination of several physiological and other sensor data such as GPS, "stress spots" in th...
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1 ABSTRACT Nicht nur die Geschwindigkeit der Entwicklungen im technologischen Bereich nimmt immer mehr zu, sondern auch der Einfluss, den diese Entwicklungen auf den Lebensalltag haben. Der technische Fortschritt verändert damit auch zunehmend die Disziplin der räumlichen Planung. Ein Beispiel dafür ist die Entwicklung des Internets, das mittlerwei...
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In contrast to previous approaches, Urban Emotions defines Smart Cities not only as technology-enriched cities, but also emphasises the human factor – Smart Citizens. This is due to the fact that the question of how people perceive a city and how they feel about it has always been important in urban planning and management. In this paper we present...
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This paper introduces the field of research "Urban Emotions" - an interdisciplinary approach combining not only spatial planning and (geo-) informatics, but also computer linguistics and sensor technology methods. A new set of methods will be created for the area of urban and spatial planning, resulting in a fundamental change of the understanding...
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How people in the city perceive their surroundings depends on a variety of dynamic and static context factors such as road traffic, the feeling of safety, urban architecture, etc. Such subjective and context-dependent perceptions can trigger different emotions, which enable additional insights into the spatial and temporal configuration of urban st...
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Architektur hängt eng mit dem Begriff der Baukultur zusammen und den Vorgängen, wie der Mensch die natürliche und/oder bebaute Umwelt verändert. Im Gegensatz zum Begriff der Baukunst beinhaltet Baukultur alle gebauten Elemente. Beispielhaft sind hier Ingenieurbauten wie Infrastruktur- oder auch Funktionsbauten zu nennen. Baukultur beschreibt damit...
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Zusammenfassung Wie der Mensch urbane Räume wahrnimmt, ist eine wesentliche Fragestellung für eine nachhaltige räumliche Planung. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Intention des von der DFG geförderten Forschungsprojektes "Urban Emotions". Dabei werden kurz die me-thodischen und inhaltlichen Verknüpfungen von smarten Technologien und der räuml...
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Dieser Beitrag wurde durch das Programmkomitee als "reviewed paper" angenommen. Zusammenfassung Visualisierung und Kommunikation gehören zu den täglichen Aufgaben von Planern und Architekten. Die dabei zur Unterstützung einsetzbaren Techniken erfahren eine fortlaufen-de Entwicklung, woraus sich immerzu neue Anwendungsfälle ergeben. Insbesondere um...
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1 ABSTRACT The current topics "Smart City" and "Smart Planning" do not just have to be about big solutions to make cities more efficient. There are also small solutions which can help planners and architects in their daily communication work, opening planning processes for more of the city's citizens and make the processes themeselves smarter. The...
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Radfahren erfreut sich einer zunehmenden Wertschätzung. Einerseits als neuer Lifestyle, andererseits als wichtiges Thema der städtischen Mobilitätsplanung: Bike-Sharing-Angebote, Radwegekonzepte und Förderung eines umweltfreundlichen Mobilitätsmix sind hierbei wichtige Stichworte. Daher fördern zunehmend mehr Städte den Ausbau der Radwege-Infrastru...
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Human sensory assessment is a new approach to objectively gather subjective data concerning humans' perception of space and emotional reactions towards space in real-time. The resulting data enables urban planners to get a more comprehensive view of interdependencies between people and their urban environment. This paper shows the methodical framew...
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As more and more people face mobility constraints due to the natural aging process of the population, barrier-free planning becomes an important urban planning issue. It is elemental to know the place of spatial barriers associated with the negative emotion - the “stress” of probands. To achieve this, a method of psycho-physiological monitoring was...
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Die Frage, ob es für planende Disziplinen möglich und notwendig ist, das Wohlbefinden eines Menschen in seinem Umfeld objektiv zu messen, wird immer wieder in Fachkreisen gestellt. Entwurfsmaxime sollte stets die Verbesserung der menschlichen Umwelt im Einklang aller Belange der Planung sein. Ein Planungsgrundsatz, der, so könnte der objektive Beob...
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ABSTRACT One of the main parts in planning is the communication of planninginformation. Not only the decision maker, but also the inhabitants have to be informed on the planned actions, no matter if they are affected directly or indirectly by the planning. The classical two-dimensional visualizations do not offer the required range to present the c...
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With the advancement of digital and sensor technologies, architecture as well as planning domains are continuously endeavoring to reach new horizons. Various kinds of sensor networks are producing data, which can be relevant for urban environments. This data can concern a variety of fields such as infrastructure, mobility, or climate. Primarily, da...
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The photorealistic visualisation of lighting-scenarios with the help of virtual 3d city models is gaining importance as a tool, helping to make decisions in the process of planning. This form of presentation makes sense to every spectator very quickly and in a definite way, thus it makes collaboration easy especially in interdisciplinary planning t...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt einen neuen Ansatz zur Visualisierung von georeferenzierten, sensorbasierten Daten im (raum-) planerischen Kontext dar. Dazu wurde das Tool GeoVi-sualizer entwickelt, welches dem Planer ein Instrument zur Verfügung stellt, um schnell und einfach multivariate Sensordaten in einem dreidimensionalen geographischen Kontex...
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There are multiple ways to visualize geotagged information. The most commonly used tools are GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) to show the data on a 2D map. For 3D visualization of geospatial information only a few systems exist, e.g. Google Earth, NASA World Wind, etc., which only provide basic visualization techniques and also only allow to vi...
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Unter dem Stichwort der Smart City wird die umfassende Vernetzung von mobilen Geräten und Sensornetzwerken verstanden, die eine digitale Erfassung von urbanen Prozessen ermöglichen. Mobile Sensoren zeichnen Daten der städtischen Umwelt auf. Dabei rückt der Mensch als smarter Sensor in den Fokus, da hier im Crowdsourcing-Verfahren Daten kollaborativ...
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Der Ansatz, Menschen als Sensoren für die räumliche Planung zu betrachten, eröffnet der Datengewinnung und -analyse komplett neue Potenziale. Vernetzte und mobile Technologien der Raumsensorik befähigen den Sensor „Mensch“ eine Vielzahl relevanter Daten für planerische Aspekte zu generieren. Hierbei ist es nun möglich, in Verbindung mit Techniken d...
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1 ABSTRACT Good urban design is not about how places look like, but rather about the art of making places for people and creating public spaces that work for the whole community. Urban spaces suppose to be designed for pedestrians and are expected to fulfill their needs. Therefore, it is of great importance to receive the users' feedback and respon...
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Urban green spaces have different benefiting values for urban life. Besides their ecological values, they are important for retreatment and recreation and provide positive contribution for the subjective well - being of the citizens. The EU emphasizes this importance for the urban spaces in various guidelines and directives ,like in the Charta of L...
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Focal point of this conference is to examine urban patterns and city structures regarding the changing needs of people in their everyday life. In order to do so, involved stakeholders such as planners and decision makers need to have precise information about citizens’ needs and feelings concerning actual difficulties or tasks. Thus, approaches are...
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Urban green spaces have different benefiting values for urban life. Besides their ecological values, they are important for retreatment and recreation and provide positive contribution for the subjective well-being of the citizens. The EU emphasizes this importance for the urban spaces in various guidelines and directives, like in the Charta of Lei...
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Unsere mitteleuropäische Gesellschaft wird immer älter. Diese Erkenntnis ist nicht neu. Allerdings erge-ben sich durch das immer höhere Lebensalter der Bevölkerung zunehmend neue planerische Aspekte. Der Diskurs im Rahmen von Neuplanungen wird sich dementsprechend auch mit dem Thema „Barriere-freiheit“ befassen müssen. Barrierefreiheit bedeutet im...
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Mehr und mehr Menschen sind aufgrund bestimmter Behinderungen oder der natürlichen Alterung im Zuge des enormen demographischen Wandels in Industriestaaten mobilitätseingeschränkt. So ist barrierefreie Planung ein konkretes Ziel im deutschen Planungssystem. Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung eines neuen, innovativ...
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Die Arbeit " +pol-Multimodale Mobilitätsstationen am Beispiel der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau " beschäftigt sich mit der Herausforderung, " Multimodale Mobilität " und das Phänomen der " Seamless Mobility " (nahtlose bzw. nahezu übergangslose Mobilität) in der Stadt Freiburg umzusetzen. Weiterhin soll die Frage geklärt werden wie diese Ansätze in Ve...
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1 ABSTRACT Continuous observation and monitoring of developments and changes in quality of spatial phenomena has always been a central task in the urban, spatial and environmental planning at various scales. Similar to the discussion about "Web 2.0", "monitoring" will be used in a very intense discussion of innovative planning methods. It means obs...
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1 ABSTRACT New technologies like smartphones provide a variety of opprtunities for the traditional fields of work and methods in urban and spatial planning. It is important to analyse the changes in geobased information and communication platforms to understand their potential impact on scientific methods in spatial planning. One of these new techn...