WSSTL - 2027

Call for Visibility Lab

The Visibility Lab at WSSTL provides consortia and research groups as well as practitioners and municipalities with a platform to showcase their projects through creative formats. It provides a chance to make a highlighted, custom presentation that can be held in various formats of your choice before, during and after WSSTL 2027, such as a podcast, video, blog, small exhibition, multimedia presentation, etc., in front of an expert audience. Additionally, Visibility Lab contributions will be published in the WSSTL 2027 symposium booklet, which will be distributed to all participants. This offers high visibility for your project.

The symposium will take place at TU Wien, located in the centre of Vienna, Austria from 30 March to 2 April 2027.

Call Topics

We particularly welcome contributions dealing with following intersections between sustainable transport and factors affecting liveability.

1. Sustainable Transport and Well-being

This theme will focus on promoting physical, mental, economic, and social well-being through sustainable transport.

2. Sustainable Transport and Health and Happiness

This theme will focus on promoting physical, mental, economic, and social well-being through sustainable transport.

3. Sustainable Transport and Quality of Life, Equity and Social Justice

This theme will focus on creating liveable cities with improved quality of life through sustainable transport solutions.

4. Sustainable Transport and Safety, Accessibility, Affordability and Environmental Quality:

This theme will focus on fostering safety, accessibility to mobility options as well as to facilities, amenities, services and opportunities for everyday lives and occasional needs, affordability and environmental quality through sustainable transport.

5. Sustainable Transport and Disaster Resiliency:

This theme will focus on building disaster resilience. The topics include investigating how sustainable transport can contribute towards improving disaster resiliency of urban transport systems.

6. Other aspects of Sustainable Transport related to Liveability and Quality of Life:

We also welcome papers exploring additional dimensions of liveability and quality of life intersecting with sustainable transport.

Submissions

To present within the Visibility Lab, please submit your proposal by 15 October 2026.

• Please give us a short description of your proposal idea using this proposal form.

Accepted proposals will have the possibility to partner with student “buddies” to co-create presentation materials. If you are interested in partnering with student buddies (optional), please register for the symposium by 31 October 2026. Alternatively, you can create your presentation materials by yourself. In this case you must register for the symposium by 15 January 2027. One team member must register as Visibility Lab in order to guarantee a space for presentation. All additional team members that would like to attend the symposium must register as a regular attendee. Presentation materials need to be delivered by 31 January 2027.

Timeline

Further inquiry

If you have any questions, please visit our FAQ-page. Many common questions are answered there.
If your question remains unanswered please contact us by e-mail to: wsstl2027@tuwien.ac.at, we will be happy to assist you.