VerBindungen (FE 97.421/2019)

Traffic and commuter relations by origin and destination, their accessibility and resident population - New data access based on administrative data and big data

Every day, people in Germany travel over three billion kilometers by foot, bike, bus, train, or car. To ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable travel, it is crucial to design infrastructure that takes into account mobility behavior. In addition to official data sources and traditional traffic surveys, the use of Floating Car Data (FCD) and mobile phone data is a viable option. This is because typical mobility structures can be derived on a small scale after reliable anonymisation. The 'VerBindung' research project aims to explore this topic and highlight the opportunities and possibilities of this new digital data. The project begins with the small-scale data requirements of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) as part of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan. It focuses on four questions:

1. How many people want to move from one place to another, and what are the source-destination interdependencies?

2. What is the purpose of people's movements from one place to another?

3. How does the accessibility of these source-destination links compare to that of cars and public transport?

4. Where are people staying and when?

The LuF GUT subcontract deals with the topic of 'Transport Interdependencies, Accessibility, and Resident Population.'