18/01/19 - Remote Session - Research planning

This Friday we did a remote session via AdobeConnect, because we just rather quickly wanted to present and discuss the different research approaches from the groups and clarify open questions regarding the trip to Langenau next week. Prior to the session, we as a group clustered the questions from the world café into different sections:

General questions like

-        How urgently do you rate the need to change something (in PT, transportation, environment, infrastructure)

-        How is the parking situation in Langenau?

-        What are you afraid of in terms of mobility?

Questions to the transportation mode like

-        Which transportation method are you using? How often?

-        How much do you spend on your transportation options?

-        How many cars do you possess in the family? Do you still use Public Transportation (PT)?

-        How do you travel long distances form Langenau? Is it possible with the PT?

-        Do you use car-sharing / pooling services? Is there an info service to organize this?

Questions regarding public transportation like

-        How convenient is the time schedule of PT for you? How do you inform yourself about train/bus schedule? Is there an App?

-        Which problems are you facing with PT?

-        How do you rate the interconnectivity of PT?

-        Have you been affected by disruptions/delays in PT?

-        Do you think that PT is easily accessible?

-        Is PT affordable?

And also some questions about eMobility or alternative mobility solution:

-        Are you ready to use eMobility tomorrow?

-        Are you already using it?

-        Are you familiar with innovative eMobility options?

-        Would you use eMobility transportation like e-busses etc.?

Our initial approach was to visit Langenau and spread our group to conduct interviews with randomly selected citizens that we will meet on the streets (families, students, kids, seniors…). If the interviewee agrees, we would also like to record the interview as a video or audio. Additionally, we planned on studying the bus and train schedules, connections, destinations, prices and information options and to document the infrastructure with videos and pictures (e.g. from the bus/train stations, sidewalks, bike lanes, roads…).

The other students and our lecturer recommended to prepare three pairs of questionnaires with different questions instead of the sole questionnaire that we already created. This way we can reach more interviewees and cover a broader scope of questions. Another proposal was to rephrase some questions so that they could be easily answered by ticking a box instead of writing many key words. We should further include a question at the top, where the interviewee can select his/her age group, so that we have the demographical spread at the end. I was very glad about the recommendations and happy about the fact that our lecturer proposed to get in touch with some public places like cafés or the hospital, where we could leave a set of our questionnaires.