Impulses for the city region
The city region Graz is also developing new forms of urban mobility in its recently founded MOBILITY LAB GRAZ. Teaching in architecture at TU Graz is injecting new impulses in this year’s key focus on ‘fast cycle paths’. In the current summer semester, design theory, research practicals and seminars have committed themselves to the topic at the Institute of Urbanism. ‘Through activities in teaching and research, we want to foster the great potential of urban fast cycle paths for Graz and greater Graz,’ explains Aglaee Degros, head of the Institute.Lectures on bicycle mobility
Students will also experience input from external experts from the Netherlands, such as Sjors van Duren, Daan Roosegaarde and Daan Zandbelt, and also Christian Kozina from Graz and the MOBILITY LAB GRAZ in the framework of the lecture series ‘Bike Lectures’ on topics of bicycle mobility and infrastructure. The Netherlands’ embassy is supporting the talks – which are open to the public – in March, April and May. Further information on events at the Institute of Urbanism can be found on the Institute’s website.Together with the Institute of Highway Engineering and Transport Planning, the Institute of Urbanism representing TU Graz at MOBILITY LAB GRAZ – the urban mobility lab under the management of Holding Graz – is involved in implementing the innovation project for Graz. TU Graz initiated the key component of the mobility lab – the urban innovation spaces in St. Peter with an urban bicycle highway to the TU Campus and Graz-Gleisdorf along the suburban railway Graz-Gleisdorf axis to test new sustainable mobility forms and mobility technologies in real conditions. On top of this, MOBILITY LAB GRAZ is looking for ideas and innovations on mobility in the Graz city region in the framework of a big Mobility Challenge in a large-scale public competition by 31st August.
