Deutsch Intern
Professorship for Social Geography

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rauh

Head of the
Professorship for Social Geography

Phone: +49 931 31-85559
E-mail: juergen.rauh@uni-wuerzburg.de

Institute of Geography and Geology
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

Hubland South Campus
Geography Building
Room 110

Appointments for consultation hours during the lecture period are possible via Zoom as well as in presence: Wednesday 9-10 am. Please register in advance by e-mail!

Appointments for consultation hours during the lecture-free period by appointment.

  • Social and population geography
  • regional science methodology
  • regional research
  • Telecommunications and transport
  • Geographical trade research
  • Methods, geoinformatics and GIS

Wellbeing in Würzburg

The Main Valley Project: Ecosystem-based solutions for hazard scenarios in the Franconian Main Valley (MainPro)

Accessibility in local food supply. A multidimensional conceptualisation, modelling and analysis based on empirical consumer surveys

  •                         Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)     
  •                         Duration: 2021 - 2024 

  • Collaborative project: Cultural education and its networks. Sub-project: Actors and their connections as success factors for (cultural) participation in peripheral areas in southern Germany

  • Introduction and operation of a self-driving shuttle service in public transport in Bad Birnbach - accompanying research in the sub-area of society

  • Areas of conflict in inner-city retail in medium-sized centres in Mainfranken

  • Agent-based microsimulation of mobility and consumer behaviour

  • Empirical studies on shared mobility in Mainfranken Funding: IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt

  • Data analyses on mobility concept for the district of Deggendorf (funding: Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH (DB))

  • Transport geography surveys for trial operation of Münchner Str. in Dachau (funding: City of Dachau) - Retail trade in European border regions

  • Structural data analysis Mainfranken and creation of a GIS for Lower Franconia (funding: IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt)

  • Scientific advice on the development of a small-scale structure for the city of Würzburg (funding: City of Würzburg)

  • Knowledge-intensive key industries in the Mainfranken region - network analysis (Funding: Region Mainfranken GmbH)

  • Scientific advice on the preparation of broadband planning in the districts of Traunstein, Starnberg, Erding, Landsberg/Lech, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Berchtesgadener Land, Rosenheim, Miesbach, Fürstenfeldbruck, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm, Donau-Ries, Miltenberg (Funding: IK-T Innovative Kommunikations-Technologien)

  • Mobility of Würzburg students (funding: Studierendenwerk) Determination of public transport superseders in the city of Würzburg (funding: WVI Verkehrsforschung und Infrastrukturplanung GmbH)

  • "Old" and "new" media and their application in a spatial perspective

  • REFINA - Development and evaluation of an area barometer as a basis for sustainable area management (Funding: BMBF) (Project management: Prof. Stefan Dech, Prof. Jürgen Rauh, Prof. Ralf Klein)

  • Development and implementation of innovative concepts and methods for researching the interactions between information and communication technologies and transport (Funding: Helmholtz Association) (Virtual Institute together with DLR, HU Berlin, TU Hamburg-Harburg, University of Stuttgart)

  • Estimation of spatial shopping interdependencies in functional regions on the basis of agent-based microsimulation methods and GIS (Funding: DFG) (Project management: Prof. G. Löffler, Prof. J. Rauh)

  • Integrated rural development concept for the southern district of Hassberge (Funding: Office for Rural Development) (Project management: Prof. Jürgen Rauh, Prof. Ralf Klein)

  • Regional Development Concept (REK) Hassberge District (Funding: Office for Rural Development, Hassberge District) (Project management: Prof. Jürgen Rauh, Prof. Ralf Klein)

  • Perception of safety and police work in the opinion of the citizens of selected towns in Eastern Bavaria (Funding: Police Headquarters Upper Palatinate)

  • Public transport in Bad Gögging - demand-orientated conception of a city and spa bus route

  • Territorial Research and Opportunities Research - Cities in Switzerland (Funding: IK-T Innovative Kommunikations-Technologien)

  • Investigation of the market analysis instruments of Deutsche Telekom (Funding: Deutsche Telekom)

  • Regional marketing in the district of Schwandorf: Image, mission statement and measures (Funding: District of Schwandorf)

  • Verkehr(t) in Freimann: Consultancy and marketing for sustainable mobility in a Munich district (Funding: MVV, City of Munich)

  • New scope for urban development through corporate mobility management (ExWoSt model project as part of the research field of urban development and urban transport)

  • Corporate mobility management at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich-Freimann (funding: Bayerischer Rundfunk)

  • Population forecasts with the help of multi-agent simulation

  • GIS-supported telecommunication network planning

  • Concept development for disco bus in the Kelheim district (together with Prof. Klein (University of Regensburg), Dr Schliephake)

Professional background

since 2002
University Professor of Social Geography specialising in Population Geography and Regional Science Methodology at the University of Würzburg

2001 - 2002
Deputy Chair of Applied Geography specialising in Geoinformatics at the Technical University of Munich

1999 - 2001
Deputy Chair of Applied Geography I at the TU Munich

1999 - 2002
Private lecturer at the University of Regensburg

1993 - 1999
Research assistant at the University of Regensburg

1989 - 1992
Research assistant at the City of Regensburg

1987 - 1989
Partner in a planning office

Degrees

1998
Habilitation, Dr phil. habil. Regensburg

1991
Doctorate, Dr phil. Regensburg

1988
Dipl.-Geograph Regensburg

Education

1988 - 1991
Geography (doctorate) Regensburg

1982 - 1988
Geography, Statistics, Econometrics Regensburg

  • (Co-)Speaker of the VGDH-AK Geographical Trade Research
  • Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy
  • Member of the Graduate School of Humanities, University of Würzburg
  • Alumni representative of the Faculty of Humanities
  • Board member of the Centre for Regional Research (ZfR)