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International study reveals the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of public transport

A team of European researchers working on a project about public transport as public space have recently completed a study on the perception and use of public transport during the first wave of COVID-19. The study…

Sebastian Lentz re-elected as Leibniz Vice-President

At its General Assembly on 26 November in Berlin, the Leibniz Association re-elected the Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography to the Board of Directors and as Vice-President of the Leibniz Association…

IfL Forschungswerkstatt #7

"I do it online now" – Virtual methods as (new) practice in spatial research?

Public-oriented mobility through digital technology

Design workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography – PUTSPACE Project / Organised by…

Collaborative workspaces in rural and peripheral regions and towns

Special session at the Global E-Festival "Regions in Recovery" of the Regional Studies Association…

IfL in brief

U-turn in mobility policy

For three decades, cars were at the centre of transport policy in Tbilisi - until Kakhaber Kaladze was elected as a mayor of Georgia's capital in November 2017.

Four centimetres on the map equals one kilometre in nature

Connoisseurs know what is meant (... the 1:25,000 topographic map). More than six thousand "Messtischblätter", as these maps used to be called, are available in the IfL library's online catalogue.