Best Paper Award for Kassel scientist

In her work "Crash course in safety: bus and car in comparison - accident statistics and COVID-19 infection risks under the magnifying glass", Lux shows that the safety of means of transport cannot be reduced to a single dimension. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the risk of infection plays a key role alongside traditional road safety. Their study systematically compares road accident statistics and infection models and comes to a clear conclusion: the bus is the safer mode of transport compared to the car in terms of both accident risks and infection risks.

With the "Best Paper Award", NVV, KVG, Regionalmanagement Nordhessen and the University of Kassel recognize outstanding contributions by young scientists under the age of 35. The overall assessment is made up of abstract (20 percent), manuscript (40 percent) and presentation (40 percent). While the abstracts and manuscripts are assessed by a jury of academics and practitioners, all participants in the Local Transport Days evaluate the presentations using an evaluation form.