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Implementation concept WKO

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25.08.2025

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Companies play a key role in the mobility transition. With their role model function and creative power, they have the potential to promote sustainable forms of mobility and establish them among their employees in the long term.

We are therefore delighted that PLANUM was commissioned by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO) to develop an implementation concept for corporate mobility management. As the central interest group for Austrian companies, the WKO is thus taking on an important pioneering role for a successful transport transition.

The concept developed is based on the three proven basic principles of sustainable mobility planning:

Avoid – Relocate – Improve.

Accordingly, the concept includes a large number of measures tailored to the WKO:

  • Awareness-raising measures to sensitize employees and companies to climate-friendly mobility

  • Strategic considerations that anchor mobility management as an integral part of operational decision-making processes

  • Infrastructural improvements that make it easier and more attractive to use sustainable means of transportation in everyday business life

With this project, the Styrian Economic Chamber shows that sustainable mobility is not only possible, but also economically viable and forward-looking.

PLANUM would like to thank you for your trust and constructive cooperation and looks forward to continuing to pursue innovative paths towards sustainable mobility together with strong partners.


Queries:
Anna-Sophie Klamminger, MSc, klamminger@planum.eu

Dr. Kurt Fallast, fallast@planum.eu

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Our wellbeing manager on the road

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18.08.2025

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At PLANUM, sustainable mobility is not only planned, but also lived. This also applies to our four-legged employee: our wellbeing manager.

Bella treated herself to a little break during her vacation. She traveled in a climate-friendly way on the ÖBB Nightjet. When you’re in a good mood, you need a change of scenery. And what could be better than taking a nap while gliding through the Austrian Alps? With her snout to the windshield and the calmness of a true mobility professional, she let herself be chauffeured to Zurich in her own train compartment. Equipped with a travel ticket, a window seat and the faint hope of a cuddle or two, she felt right at home.

Once there, we took a close look at the new cycle tunnel and gathered inspiration. This was originally planned as a freeway link, but the plans were never realized. since May 2025, it has now functioned as a cycle tunnel.

The next time you travel on the ÖBB Nightjet, look out for an expert in mobility on four paws with black curls.

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Temperature and mobility

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05.08.2025

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Even though we currently have a short break from hot temperatures, we experienced several hot days very early on this summer. Accordingly, PLANUM has made adjustments in all kinds of areas at its office locations in Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt in order to survive the heat.

Heat can also cause changes in mobility behavior:

A study from Rotterdam on the use of environmentally friendly means of transport (e.g. cycling or walking) shows how the weather influences the choice of means of transport. When the sky is cloudy, there is strong wind and precipitation, the travel experience is rated worse than when the sky is clear, there is little precipitation and the air temperature is high. However, this tendency in the evaluation of the travel experience can only be observed up to temperatures of 25 degrees. [ 1] Above 25 degrees, mobility is then increasingly covered by air-conditioned means of transport such as public transport or cars. [2]


Particularly in view of the hotter summers and increased heavy rainfall events that we are facing, these issues must be increasingly taken into account in transport planning. In addition to the factors of cost and time, sustainable transport infrastructure must also be evaluated in terms of the experience of the journey in order to promote the use of environmentally friendly means of transport:

Footpaths must be planned with shading.


If possible, cycle paths should not be planned next to busy roads. This avoids splashing water in the rain or additional heat from cars and improves the cycling experience.


Infrastructure for retention and evaporation of water masses must be provided.


Public transport waiting areas must offer shade and protection from the rain



[1] 2016, Böcker L. et al: Weather, transport mode choices and emotional travel experiences. In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 94 (2016), pp. 360-373

[2] 2013, Böcker L. et al: Impact of Everyday Weather on Individual Daily Travel Behaviors in Perspective: A Literature Review. In: Transport Reviews 33 (2013), pp. 71-91

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