1. Basic participation
All participants observe their everyday mobility in Berlin for a few weeks. During these weeks, you will answer questions about your daily routes and how you feel about them.
The aim is to highlight the diversity of experiences and needs in mobility. The findings can provide important insights, for example, into possible improvements.
The basic participation includes:
- a kick-off meeting in April 2025
- five questionnaires about yourself, your health, and mobility
- two weeks of short surveys on your mobility (3 to 5 minutes a day)
- another week of short surveys if there is a heatwave
- a final event in spring 2026
You will receive a compensation of 60 euros for the basic participation.
Schedule for basic participation
The study will start in April 2025 with a two-hour kick-off meeting in small groups. There is a choice of dates from 2 to 12 April.
All questionnaires in the study can be answered either online, on paper or by telephone. There are a total of five longer questionnaires, which take around fifteen minutes to complete: The first questionnaire follows in April, the second in June, the third in October, the fourth in January and the fifth in March.
There is also a two-week period in May or June with short mobility questions lasting around two to three minutes per day. Another week with equally short questions follows in July or August as soon as there is a heatwave.
The baseline study will end in March 2026 with a public event where results and policy recommendations will be presented.
2. Additional option: fitness watch
If you are interested, you can use an exercise bracelet to measure and document your daily mobility for two weeks each in summer and winter. Short daily surveys accompany this measurement process. We want to use the data to learn more about the potential health benefits of everyday mobility.
Of course, we will lend out the measuring devices free of charge. You can choose between different time periods.
If you take part in this additional option, you will be compensated with an additional 20 euros.
Schedule for the fitness watch module
The fitness watch is worn twice for a fortnight at a time. This is possible from June to September 2025 and from November 2025 to February 2026.
The two-week periods are accompanied by short daily surveys: They last approximately two to three minutes and can be answered online, on paper or by telephone.
3. Research groups
If you are interested in conducting more research, you can join one of our research groups. Together with other participants, you can exchange ideas and contribute your thoughts to the study.
The groups will develop research questions and investigate them with the support of our project team. One result could be, for example, formulating recommendations for policy-makers at the end.
The research topics
We have pre-selected topics to integrate your research successfully into the project. You can choose one of the following research groups:
1.Urban climate: This is about how weather, climate, and air quality affect healthy mobility. It is also essential to ask how people react differently to weather effects, for example, due to physical or other limitations.
2. Healthy mobility for all: This is about equity and disadvantages in Berlin's mobility infrastructure. We are focusing on people with limited mobility or difficult access to mobility services.
3. Engagement and participation: This group examines the potential for effective civic engagement in healthy and just mobility for all. After all, transportation can only be transformed if many people are committed to it and make their needs heard.
Each research group ...
- meets for three workshops (four hours each)
- is supported by the AMBER team
- develops research questions, implements them, and evaluates the collected data
- can present the results at the final event
Schedule for the research groups
Registration for a research group takes place in April 2025. Each group has three workshops, each lasting four hours.
At the first workshop at the end of May or beginning of June 2025, research questions are discussed and selected.
In the following research period until October 2025, various measurements, interviews or population surveys will be carried out.
This data will be analysed at the second workshop, which will take place in November. If the group decides to carry out further analyses, this can be done until the end of January 2026.
The final workshop will be held between the end of January and the beginning of February. Results will be discussed there and recommendations developed, which will then be presented at the final event at the end of March 2026.
The dates that have already been fixed can be found here.