Helmut Schad

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Helmut Schad (born January 4, 1962 ; † January 18, 2017 ) was a German-Swiss mobility researcher , university professor and author . His main areas of work were pedestrian traffic , multilocality and actor-network theory .

Life

After studying geography , economics and sociology at the University of Trier and working in the planning office Auctor in Lörrach, Helmut Schad worked from 1994 to 2002 as a consultant in the transport department of Prognos AG in Basel with a focus on new mobility services and mobility management , evaluation, public transport. Planning and concepts and empirical mobility analyzes active. From 2006 he worked as a lecturer and project manager at the ITW Institute for Tourism at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences . Schad died in January 2017 at the age of 55 after a brief serious illness.

Focus of work

Helmut Schad has been a member of the extended federal board of “ Fuss e. V. ". In the “Fuss e. V. “published magazine mobilogisch! He built up the column “Critical Literature Service Pedestrians” and looked after it for 26 years in a total of 89 issues. His analyzes and comments offer the audience an overview of important new publications that are relevant to research and practice.

Schad developed scientific projects and publications at the Institute for Tourism Management ITW at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Through his interdisciplinary approach, he tried to convey new impulses in the subject area of ​​mobility. He brought the topic of “multilocality”, ie living in different places at the same time, into the consciousness of science and practice. Schad was a pioneer in the discovery and formulation of new traffic-related relationships.

Publications

• Mobile and double sedentary, studies on residential multilocalization. 2014, ISBN 978-3-900830-85-4 .
• Revue Quetelet. Presses Universitaires De Louvain, 2013, ISBN 978-2-87558-244-7 .
• Mobile on foot. Practical, beneficial and challenging for pedestrian traffic. Issue 158. Institute for State and Urban Development Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ILS (ed.). Nov. 2000. (80 pp.)
• Prognos AG: Model experiment “mobile Schopfheim” to change mobility-related attitudes and traffic behavior. Results of the accompanying research on behalf of the Ministry for Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg and the city of Schopfheim. Basel 1997.
• with M. Flamm, C. Wagner, Th. Frey: New integrated mobility services in Switzerland. National Research Program Transport and Environment. Bern 1999.