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Dr.-Ing. Jonas Harz
Research assistant
- Telephone
- +49 561 804-2952
- jonas.harz[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
- Location
- Mönchebergstraße 7
34125 Kassel
- Room
- Ingenieurwissenschaften III, Room 2107
- Consultation Hours
By arrangement
Fields of work
- PUBLIC TRANSPORT
- Integrated transport planning
- Mobility in rural areas
- Traffic modeling
supervised courses
- Traffic Demand Modeling
- Traffic Surveys and Data Management
- Practical Seminar on Traffic Surveys
Projects
- Modeling Travel Demand from Vacationers and Day Trippers in Major Cities II, ongoing since 2025
- MOSACA II – Mobile Work in Satellite Offices Near Home Combined with Sustainable Transportation Options in Northern Hesse, completed in 2024
- Social2Mobility: Greater Social Participation Through Integrated Spatial, Transportation, and Social Planning, Subproject 1: Theoretical Foundations, Quantitative Empirical Analysis, and Recommendations, completed in 2022
- GetMobil: “Shared and Networked Mobility Services—Initialization, Implementation, Impact, and Dissemination with Special Consideration of Rural Areas,” completed in 2018
- Scientific support and evaluation of the project “Mobility in Rural Areas / Mobilfalt,” completed in 2018
- Modeling of transportation demand among day-trippers, short-stay visitors, and vacationers in major cities, completed in 2022
Publications
- Harz, J.
“Modeling Tourism-Related Travel Demand from Day Trippers and Overnight Guests in Major Cities”, in: Institute of Transportation at the University of Kassel (ed.), University of Kassel Transportation Series, Issue 41, ISBN 978-3-7376-1287-6, Kassel University Press, Kassel, 2026 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Surveying the Travel Behavior of City Tourists—A Concept for Using a Smartphone-Based Tracking App,” in: *Transportation Research Procedia*, Volume 97, pp. 220–230, doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2026.04.159, 2026 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Modeling the Mode of Travel for City Tourists”, in: Straßenverkehrstechnik, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 185–193, Kirschbaum Verlag GmbH, Bonn, 2025 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Modeling the Mode of Travel for City Tourists”, in: Research Association for Road and Transportation Engineering, HEUREKA '24, Conference Proceedings Online, FGSV 002/140, FGSV-Verlag, Cologne, 2024 - Sommer, C.; Briegel, R.; Harz, J.; Reiserer, M.
“Action Guide to Climate Neutrality in Mobility for the City of Kassel”, in: doi:10.17170/kobra-202302017438, Kassel, 2023 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Collection of Revealed Preference Mobility Data from City Tourists—A Two-Part Survey Design”, in: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning, and Information Society, REAL CORP 2022, Vienna - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Mode Choice of City Tourists: Discrete Choice Modeling Based on Survey Data from a Major German City”, in: *Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives* 16, December 2022, Article 100704, Elsevier, 2022 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Success Factors and Barriers to Integrated Ridesharing in Rural Areas”, in: Straßenverkehrstechnik, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 417–424, Kirschbaum-Verlag, Bonn, 2022 - Sommer, C.; Briegel, R.; Harz, J.; Reiserer, M.
“Strategies for Meeting Climate Protection Goals in Transportation—An Integrated Push-and-Pull Strategy Is Required at All Planning Levels”, in: DER NAHVERKEHR, Issue 05/2022, pp. 6–11, DVV Media Group GmbH, Hamburg, 2022 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Determinants of Success and Constraints of Integrated Ridesharing in Rural Areas”, in: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 11, September 2021, Article 100459, Elsevier, 2021 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Success Factors and Barriers to Integrated Ridesharing in Rural Areas”, in: Research Association for Road and Transportation Engineering, HEUREKA '21, Conference Proceedings Online, FGSV 002/127, FGSV-Verlag, Cologne, 2021 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Determinants of Success and Constraints of Integrated Ridesharing in Rural Areas,” in: Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, TRA 2020 – Rethinking Transport (Conference Canceled) (accepted for publication), Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, Helsinki, 2020 - Sommer, C.; Harz, J.
“GetMobil - Policy Brief 2: How Can Ridesharing Become an Important Part of a Sustainable Public Transportation System in Rural Areas?”, Kassel, 2019 - Sommer, C.; Harz, J.
“Integrated Ridesharing in Rural Areas,” in: Nahverkehrs-praxis, Issue 11/12-2019, pp. 16–18, Fachverlag Dr. H. Arnold GmbH, Dortmund, 2019 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Evaluation of the Measures Implemented in the Real-World Experiment”, in: Daskalakis, M.; Sommer, C.; Roßnagel, A.; Kepper, J. (eds.), Connecting Rural Mobility—Ridesharing in Rural Areas and Its Integration into Public Transit, oekom Verlag, Munich, 2019 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Flinc System Analysis”, in: Daskalakis, M.; Sommer, C.; Roßnagel, A.; Kepper, J. (eds.), Connecting Rural Mobility—Ridesharing in Rural Areas and Its Integration into Public Transit, oekom Verlag, Munich, 2019 - Harz, J.; Sommer, C.
“Potential and Barriers to Ridesharing from a Transportation Science Perspective”, in: Daskalakis, M.; Sommer, C.; Roßnagel, A.; Kepper, J. (eds.), Connecting Rural Mobility—Ridesharing in Rural Areas and Its Integration into Public Transit, oekom Verlag, Munich, 2019 - Harz, J.; Benz, H.; Sommer, C.
“Integrating Ridesharing into Public Transit”, in: Daskalakis, M.; Sommer, C.; Roßnagel, A.; Kepper, J. (eds.), Connecting Rural Mobility—Ridesharing in Rural Areas and Its Integration into Public Transit, oekom Verlag, Munich, 2019 - Sommer, C.; Harz, J.
“Determination of Potentials for Drivers and Passengers of Integrated Ridesharing Services in Rural Areas”, in: Proceedings of the 7th Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018), April 16–19, 2018, Vienna, Austria, 2018 - Harz, J.; Becker, T.; Clarus, E.; Becker, U.
“Less Motorized Private Transportation Through Station-Independent Carsharing? Results of an Evaluation in the Munich Metropolitan Area,” in: Proceedings of the 25th Transportation Science Days, Dresden, 2016 - Harz, J.
“Variable Condensation and Clustering of Big Data—How Can Free-Floating Car-Sharing Users Be Categorized?”, in: Master’s thesis at the Chair of Transportation Ecology, TU Dresden. In: Transportation Ecology Series 5/2016, ISSN 2367‑315X, Dresden, 2016
Lectures (selection)
- "When Science Fails - Analyzing an Unsuccessful Field Experiment in Post-Pandemic Public Transportation"; World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) 2026; Toulouse, July 9, 2026
- “Surveying the Travel Behavior of City Tourists – A Concept for Using a Smartphone-Based Tracking App”; 13th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods (ISCTSC); Da Nang, Vietnam, March 31, 2025
- “Modeling the Mode of Travel for City Tourists”; HEUREKA ’24; Stuttgart, March 13, 2024
- “Collection of Revealed Preference Mobility Data from City Tourists—A Two-Part Survey Design”; 27th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning, and the Information Society, REAL CORP 2022; Vienna, November 15, 2022
- “Success Factors and Barriers to Integrated Ridesharing in Rural Areas”; HEUREKA '21; Online, April 13, 2021
- “GetMobil: Ridesharing Integrated into Public Transit in Rural Areas”; Mobility Management Conference; Hamburg, May 21, 2019
- “Can Ridesharing Improve Mobility in Rural Areas?”; “” Society for the Study of Structural Policy Issues e. V.; Advisory Board on Transportation; Berlin, November 22, 2016