• Post: Numbers, Data, Facts: Intellecutal Capital Report

    Current figures, data, facts from the past fiscal year in the Annual Report with Intellectual Capital Report 2018.

  • Publikation: Supporting Road Maintenance with In-Vehicle Data – Results from a Field Trial on Road Surface Condition Monitoring
  • Post: 1st Place for „Peyeoneer“ at the Social Hackathon

    Eva Hollauf and her team at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences won with their idea for “Peyeoneer” at this year’s social hackathon.

  • Post: Figures, Data, Facts: The New Annual Report 2017

    The current annual report of Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft shows the 2017 financial year in figures, data and facts. As a professional research partner, the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft operates at the interface between science and industry. She is part of numerous cooperative research projects and offers her know-how to companies. The current annual report shows the 2017 financial year in figures, data and facts. The results of Salzburg Research benefit the economy. Clients or project partners are companies of different industries and sizes. Half of the research work in 2017 was carried out with or for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). “Digitalization affects everyone. Our focus on information and communication technologies reaches into almost every industry, “explains Siegfried Reich, Managing Director of the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft. “Our activities focus on IT topics including energy, enterprise (Industry 4.0), health & sports and mobility.” In the province of Salzburg, Salzburg Research is an important location factor: Almost […]

  • Publikation: Perceptions and attitudes of bicyclists towards self-driving cars: a mixed methods approach

    Efforts to advance Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have taken on a central role in research and development in recent years and will have a significant influence on road traffic in the future. Research on AVs has mainly focused on the technology itself and the direct users of AVs and their acceptance. However, the role of bicyclists, interacting with AVs in traffic, is not yet researched as thoroughly. Using a mixed methods approach, we combine quantitative results from a survey among bicyclists (N = 889) and qualitative results from a focus group (N = 19) to give insights into bicyclists’ attitudes and expectations towards self-driving cars. The results showed that bicyclists’ affinity for technology is a significant predictor for both their trust and perceived safety towards self-driving cars, as well as an effect of age and gender on these variables. Both from the quantitative and qualitative results, it is clear that flawless functioning of the technology of […]

  • Post: Maker Days for Kids: Award for Media Education Projects

    The Maker Days for Kids were awarded the Dieter Baacke Prize 2016, a German-wide prize for outstanding media pedagogical projects. On 19 November 2016, the open digital workshop “Maker Days for Kids” in Bad Reichenhall was awarded the Dieter Baake Prize by the Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur, together with the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Women, Senior Citizens and Youth. The project “Maker Days for Kids” was organized in April 2015 by BIMS e.V., Bad Reichenhall, with the support of the HIT Foundation – Children’s Future, the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft and the Technical University of Graz. The project, together with seven other outstanding media pedagogic projects, was able to win over 200 applications. Four girls from Reichenhall – Anna, Elisa, Klara and Magda – were peer tutors in the project and were allowed to receive the award at the Cottbus Stadthausbühne. The Maker Days for Kids was a four-day, open, creative and digital […]

  • Post: 10th IT Business Talk: No Security Without Business

    For the 10th time, nic.at and Salzburg Research organized the joint IT Businesstalk, which was launched in 2005. This year’s event on 11.4.2019 was about safety – to be more precise, and Security AND Safety. Six speakers provided fascinating insights into various aspects of security – from unreal scenes à la Hollywood to quite real scenarios from the industrial and SME sector. Security researcher Adrian Dabrowski provided a humorous-scientific introduction to the subject with his “Hollywood Hacking”: Starting with the transported image of the hacker up to his – usually very unrealistic – methods, he wittily explained why security experts often just shake their head about hacking scenes in films. But even in the real world, security experts like Adrian Pinter from Siemens Austria sometimes happen to not come out of the head shaking. He has already experienced quite a bit in his many years of auditing and was therefore able to report first-hand […]

  • Post: We are looking for: Researcher (m/f) – IP Communication

    To strengthen our team in the ANC department we are looking for a Researcher (m/f) IP Communication in part time or full time.

  • Publikation: Collecting Floating Car Data with Smartphones: Results from a Field Trial in Austria.

    Abstract: This work reports on results from a field trial regarding the collection of floating car data with smartphones in Austria. The field trial has been conducted within Austria’s National Floating Car Data Testbed pursuing the goal to test different aspects of floating car data technology for traffic data collection, traffic state estimation and traffic prediction. The test bed collects, processes and analyses FCD from several thousand vehicles. The field trial for smartphone-based data collection has been conducted within the Federal State of Salzburg covering 1500 kilometres of major road network. Between the launch of the Android-based smartphone application in March 2014 and the end of the field trial in February 2015, the application has been downloaded by more than 2100 users. One year after launch the app is still installed on 650 devices and attracts around 15 users daily. The work gives insights into the application’s concepts and discusses app usage statistics, usage patterns […]

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    Information for our customers and partners about our availability within the scope of the COVID-19 measures.

  • Publikation: How Smooth is Your Ride?

    […] new method for objective bicycle vibration measurement,” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 56, pp. 415-425, 2015. J. Gao, A. Sha, Y. Huang, L. Hu, Z. Tong and W. Jiang, “Evaluating the cycling comfort on urban roads based on cyclists’ perception of vibration,” Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 192, pp. 531-541, 2018. J. Y. M. Nuñez, D. R. Bisconsini and A. N. Rodrigues da Silva, “Combining environmental quality assessment of bicycle infrastructures with vertical acceleration measurements,” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 137, pp. 447-458, 2020. S. Kranzinger and S. Leitinger, “Eine Bestimmung der Oberflächenqualität von Fahrradinfrastruktur durch Smartphone-Beschleunigungsdaten mithilfe des k-means++-Algorithmus,” AGIT ‒ Journal für Angewandte Geoinformatik, pp. 104-116, 2021. K. Zang, J. Shen, H. Huang, M. Wan and J. Shi, “Assessing and Mapping of Road Surface Roughness based on GPS and Accelerometer Sensors on Bicycle-Mounted Smartphones,” Sensors, vol. 18, 2018. G. W. Corder, Nonparametric Statistics, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2014.

  • Projekt: SAFE-EVENT – Integration of security issues and tourism applications for events in the State of Salzburg

    Concepts and technologies for advanced security during big events. safeevent

  • Post: Maker Days Vol.2: Robot 101

    Also on the third afternoon of the Maker Days Vol.2 there was a lot to discover. Around 40 children took up the topic of robots at the various stations.

  • Projekt: GAMES

    GAMES will focus on how digitalisation could enable electric shared vehicle fleets to answer mobility needs while also creating new revenue streams by providing flexibility services for the electricity grid and energy communities.

  • Publikation: Big Data in der Mobilität – FCD Modellregion Salzburg.
  • Post: Inclusive Tourism in the Alpine Region

    Tourism for everyone! People should be able to immerse themselves in nature regardless of environmental, physical and other hurdles.

  • Post: New Visitor Record at the Long Night of Research

    […] we were regional coordinator for the Province of Salzburg this year. On the other hand, we designed a location with several stations here in the Science City Itzling. At 5 pm the Long Night of Research in Salzburg was opened in our house by Governor Wilfried Haslauer and Provincial Councilor Martina Berthold. Then it was time to do research, discover and marvel until 11 pm. Das war die LNF18 Watch this video on YouTube Mit dem Klick auf das Bild werden durch den mit uns gemeinsam Verantwortlichen Youtube (Google Ireland Limited) das Video abgespielt, auf Ihrem PC Skripte geladen sowie personenbezogene Daten erfasst. Research, Discover and Marvel at Salzburg Research At Salzburg Research you were able to get to know different social robots and to question their handling of data, to file on your own knees using depth image scanning. In addition, the visitors were able to find out what digital twins are for […]

  • Publikation: Sparse Data Traffic Speed Prediction on a Road Network With Varying Speed Levels

    Most works on graph neural networks (GNNs) for traffic speed prediction assume near-complete data and little variance of base speed levels. However, both assumptions do not necessarily hold true for network-wide probe vehicle data (PVD). Therefore, we applied two state-of-the-art GNNs to sparse PVD from a road network with highly varying speed levels and to dense motorway data for comparison. We introduce two methods to adapt preexisting GNNs for improved prediction performance: normalization of speed values with respect to the base speed levels of different roads led to significant improvements of prediction performance on both datasets. Using the number of observations supporting each speed value as an additional input feature can improve prediction performance. Furthermore, we identified characteristics of data and models encouraging the use of either method. As no fitting dataset to evaluate these approaches was found, a novel dataset derived from PVD is introduced. It features sparse speed values and underlying numbers of […]

  • Projekt: InterEVENT – Study and pilot demonstration for traffic management at major events

    InterEVENT is a pilot study with the goal of supporting traffic management for major events with clearly defined event sites and time frames.

  • Post: Industry meets Makers #IMMgoesWest

    Industry meets Makers, an open innovation community building format, opens up new collaboration models between the top industry and the creative, young maker scene.