Takeru Shibayama

On the Vienna Corso: Changing street use and street design around the Vienna State Opera House 1860–1949

Technological changes have opened up new opportunities for historical research, which call for new methodologies to fully realise these opportunities. This paper presents the four-step interactive photo timeline analysis we developed to analyse large volumes of historical photographs from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. We present the results of a case study (regarding both street design and street use in Vienna from 1860 to 1949) in which we utilised interactive photo timeline analysis. The geographical research scope was limited to the streets around the Vienna Opera: street use and street design were analysed from the perspective of the street as transportation space and as urban living space. The development of the interactive photo timeline analysis methodology and the case study analysis benefited greatly from the interdisciplinary nature of the research team.

TEN YEARS OF BIKE-SHARING IN VIENNA - AN EXPLORATION INTO SUBJECTIVE USER CHOICES

Bike-sharing is becoming increasingly popular nowadays in every corner of the world. Vienna has one of the longest traditions of bike-sharing. The current ICT-based system, Citybike Wien, has been in service since 2003. The scheme is becoming popular and it is reported that ridership has been increasing rapidly in recent years. We have carried out a survey on user responses to this bike-sharing scheme in Vienna in spring of 2013. The results show that approximately 90% of Viennese people are aware of the bike-sharing scheme. The paper shows an overview of the Viennese bike-sharing scheme including the details of the survey results. After that, we discuss how to make bike-sharing systems more attractive to a wider range of the population and summarize suggestions for new implementation in other places.