Mobility researcher Dr Sophia Becker from TU Berlin commented on current developments in German transport policy in a television interview for the news programme Rundschau of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Sophia Becker from TU Berlin was interviewed in the innovative format of ARTE's Snapchat programme Frequently Asked Questions F.A.Q. on the question "Should we ban cars to save the world?". (20 November 2019)
The importance of new civil society initiatives for a successful transport transition was emphasised by Dr Sophia Becker from TU Berlin in an interview with the AutoMobil podcast from detektor.fm.
In a television interview for the Bayerischer Rundfunk news programme Rundschau, Dr Sophia Becker from TU Berlin gave her assessment of the results of the German government's cabinet meeting on the climate package.
Sophia Becker is quoted in an article at ZEIT online (15 October 2019): A transport transition not only for the rich.
This was the initial thesis of the live TV programme Ihre Meinung (Your Opinion) by WDR, in which Dr Sophia Becker from TU Berlin answered citizens’ questions about current problems in the field of road transport.
Julia Jarass from the Institute of Transport Research at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) explained in an interview with the radio station RBB Kultur the current challenges in the implementation of the Berlin Mobility Law with a special focus on walking as a mode of transport.
The following chapter illustrates, on the basis of empirical research results from the IASS and the Kopernikus project ENavi, that people in Germany support the energy transition, but consider its implementation to be socially unjust and not targeted enough.
Sophia Becker was interviewed by RiffReporter (27 August 2019): A free public transport ticket for all is superfluous.
The transport transition is a socio-technical transformation process that cannot succeed without the acceptance of the population. Conceptually, three levels of acceptance can be distinguished: (i) tolerance, (ii) positive attitude and (iii) active engagement (Renn 2013).