The meeting focused on the results of employee surveys conducted in two of the three real-world laboratories, in which Andreas Schwarz and Elisabeth Wagner-Olfermann are involved as part of the project. Based on these findings, concrete measures will be developed over the coming months to enable and motivate employees to make their daily commutes more sustainable.
In a workshop format, researchers, transport planners, engineers, and company representatives developed initial ideas for implementation. Elisabeth Wagner-Olfermann moderated an impulse workshop focusing on the communication of the planned measures. In addition, participants discussed a future guiding vision for sustainable mobility in rural areas of Thuringia.
Representatives of the Thuringian Innovation Center for Mobility (ThIMo) also presented initial considerations for a Thuringian competence center for automated and connected driving and introduced possible test routes for the future use of automated vehicles within the project.
MOVEwell is therefore facing an intensive working year ahead: Andreas Schwarz and Elisabeth Wagner-Olfermann are currently preparing a statewide public survey in Thuringia to examine attitudes, risk perceptions, and information behavior related to mobility, with a particular focus on automated and connected driving in local public transport. In addition, the first wave of a quantitative content analysis of regional and national media coverage on the mobility transition has been completed. The findings will provide practical insights for the project, particularly regarding how the mobility transition and its challenges are reported in Thuringia and across Germany, and which mobility alternatives are being highlighted and discussed.
The project, funded by the BMFTR, will continue until 2029. Andreas Schwarz and Elisabeth Wagner-Olfermann from the International Risk, Crisis and Science Communication Research Group are part of the project team of the consortium partner ThIMo.