Dr. Jörg Firnkorn

Research Interests
# Success factors for integrated mobility systems
Infrastructural connections; physical access via RFID/NFC; shared payment systems and price-bundling; supporting smartphone applications; integration of non-mobility-related services
# Measurement of carsharing effects
Methodologies (primary data generation approaches; secondary data integration; calculation rules) measuring effects of shared-vehicle systems (station-based and free-floating carsharing providers; peer-to-peer carsharing; bike-sharing) with a focus on emission-related (e.g. CO2-equivalents) and logistic parameters (e.g. required parking spaces)
# Mobility-survey calibration with GPS-trackers
Correction of mode-dependent systematic over- and underestimations (of travelled distances and usage frequencies) and integrated analyses of survey-data and GPS-tracker-data
# Relationship between charging infrastructure and charging behavior
Interplay of charging opportunities (number and distribution of charging stations per square kilometer; different types of charging stations) and the charging behavior of people driving private and carsharing electric/plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
# LCAs of alternative powertrains
e.g. when applied in electric-, gas-, hydrogen-vehicles; hybrid variants
Teaching
# Seminars: Sustainable mobility (BSc) and Sustainable agglomerations (MSc)
# Principles of business studies
# Sustainable Management
Publications
# Firnkorn, J. and Müller, M. (2011). What will be the environmental effects of new free-floating car-sharing systems? The case of car2go in Ulm. Ecological Economics 70(8), 1519-1528. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.014
# Firnkorn, J. and Müller, M. (2012). Selling Mobility instead of Cars: New Business Strategies of Automakers and the Impact on Private Vehicle Holding. Business Strategy and the Environment 21(4), 264-280. DOI: 10.1002/bse.738
# Firnkorn, J. (2012). Triangulation of two methods measuring the impacts of a free-floating carsharing system in Germany. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (10), 1654-1672. DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.08.003
Position
Former research associate
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