Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rauh

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

Wellbeing in Würzburg

•        Funding: City of Würzburg

•        Duration: 03/2025 - 10/2025

•        Contact persons: Prof. Jürgen Rauh, Nils Karges

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

•        Funded by: Free State of Bavaria, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts; ERFE

•        Duration: 05/2023 - 09/2027

•        Programme management: Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst, Institute of Geography and Geology

•        Sub-project leaders: Prof. Dr Jörg Müller, Biocentre; Prof. Dr Jürgen Rauh, Geography, Social Geography;  

•       Prof. Dr Hannes Taubenböck, Geography, Remote Sensing; Prof. Dr Tobias Ullmann, Geography, Remote Sensing; 

• Jun-Prof. Dr Julia Meister, Geography

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)

• (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)