The individual modes of transport in Salzburg are still barely interlinked. That should change and the airport should play a central role as a mobility hub in the region.

Under the project name “Airport 4.0”, the airport, business and state politics are working intensively on linking a wide variety of mobility options. The traffic to the actual destination is to be bundled. Both locals and tourists should benefit from this.

“The timing couldn't be better, we are currently planning the new terminal landscape at the airport and here we need every input for future infrastructural changes. A functioning and easily accessible airport is essential for the settlement and continuation of international companies. The mobility project is intended to show the airport the possibilities of how a further development into an attractive mobility hub in the regional transport system can look. In addition to direct flight passengers, existing large and small companies should also benefit significantly from this, ”says airport manager Bettina Ganghofer, emphasizing the importance of the ambitious project.

The "Airport 4.0" is to be embedded in the everyday, multimodal transport system - attractive footpaths and bike paths, demand-oriented new offers in public transport, and alternative mobility options for tourists as well as for commuters and residents (usable also apart from air traffic) are to be created. “We want to use methods from geoinformatics and data science to show how the intermodal travel chain of travelers to the Salzburg regions can be bundled and further developed. In the form of accessibility and planning scenarios, demand-oriented optimizations in the environmental network as well as other future-oriented mobility offers at Salzburg Airport can be simulated and their effects can be estimated. This supports the implementation of new offers and improves the everyday, multimodal integration into the transport system, even outside of air traffic, ”says Thomas Prinz from RSA FG & University of Salzburg. The project, which is embedded in the WISS25 strategy of the State of Salzburg, is a cooperation between the Research Studio iSPACE of the RSA FG, the Labs for Intelligent Data Analytics (IDA Lab Salzburg) of the University of Salzburg (PLUS) and the company partner Salzburger Flughafen GmbH.