Bachelor’s Thesis / Master’s Thesis / Study Project
Please contact us if you would like to write your Bachelor's Thesis, Master's Thesis or Study Project at our chair.
We ask you to contact us individually at an early stage. You are also welcome to suggest your own topics.
Here you can find some suggestions:
Master's Thesis (partly suitable for Bachelor's Thesis):
- Accessibility by Proximity aka the 15-mins City?
- Perceived (objective) vs measured (subjective) Accessibility
- How can we measure quality of life in our cities?
- Mixed-methods approach to identifying transportation inequities.
- Attitudes and perceptions of the underprivileged population towards new mobility services.
- Public discussion of new mobility services: a social media analysis.
- Can personal values predict travel behavior?
- Urban Green Infrastructure for Active Mobility – Qualitative approach
- Connectivity analysis of Urban Green Infrastructure network and Mobility network in Munich (Methods: GIS analysis; Expected outcomes: Overlaps and disconnections of mobility and UGI network/ Finding areas of intervention and potential types of interventions)
- Walking comfort in Munich: Literature review and survey development
- User Experience studies and methods in mobility research
- Mobility governance: how to integrate more urban green infrastructure into active mobility plans (Method: Case study of Munich)
- Walking awareness-raising workshops and their impacts (Methods: Improving and executing the already-existing awareness workshops at the chair and collecting impacts through surveys. Target groups: students, professionals, authorities.), joint supervision with Dr.-Ing. David Duran.
- Citizen participation in technology-driven mobility projects
- A qualitative assessment of perceived mobility injustice in Munich
- Flexible booking of various mobility offers: Basics, product design and impact potentials of mobility budgets
- Can ridesharing be part of an integrated mobility system? Intermodal accessibility analysis to assess the potential of integrating ridesharing and public transport
- The "Who is who?" of the mobility landscape in the Munich metropolitan region: Analysis and visualization of relevant initiatives, projects and players
- How can street experiments achieve more sustainable and resilient cities?
- Establish criteria to define what makes a successful street experiment and its positive impact.
- Further development on the methodology of a street experiment: From street selection, planning, evaluation and long-term strategies.
- Optimization methods in urban transport supply planning – Theory and Practice (with a focus on Accessibility)
- How to do System Dynamic Modelling in Mobility? Review of current practices and recommendations
- How does the (objective & perceived) pricing of modes influence travel behavior - a literature review on pricing schemes
- Developing an approach to optimize intermodal urban transportation networks
- Methods for multi-criteria decision-making – what approaches fit mobility projects in which contexts
- Exploring spatial and temporal variations in external costs of transport from a bottom-up approach -developing a methodology for contexts with poor data availability
M.Sc. Simone Aumann und M.Sc. Sebastian Seisenberger:
- How is the mobility transition in cities discussed on social media platforms? A comparison
- MCube: Auswertung einer begleitenden Nutzer*innenstudie für ein innovatives neues Carsharingkonzept
Study Project:
- Social characteristics associated with commuting time.
- Promoting empathy as a tool to improve cycling conditions for vulnerable cyclists
- Assessing spatial fairness in new mobility services
- Mixed-method approach to assessing mobility inequities
Master's Thesis or Study Projects within RG Mobility Justice:
Within the Research Group Mobility Justice (contact Dr.-Ing. David Duran) several topics are open for Masters Thesis or Study Projects:
Awareness:
- Serious board games as a tool for creating awareness
Assessment:
- Social media analysis on mobility justice
- Qualitative assessment of perceived urban mobility justice in Munich (M.Sc. Sindi Haxhija)
- Quantitative analysis on mobility justice in “Berg am Laim”
- Who is allowed and who is forced to be immobile?
(Updated April 2024)