FACTUM

FACTUM Chaloupka & Risser OG, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsanalysen (Legal Registration No FN 8319i) is an SME located in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It is a consulting firm without any regular public funds. It conducts both basic and applied research, and it assists various customers in connection with the implementation of research results. The main work area of FACTUM is traffic from a social scientific and psychological point of view. The central scientific topic is the development of methods to communicate adequately with different target groups. Work on attitude- and acceptance matters, motives, user needs, human communication («marketing»), and on behaviour observation, and qualitative and quantitative description methods. One of the main topics of work is the development and use of instruments that allow an adequate research on human motives as a basis for social management that adequately takes care of user and customer needs. FACTUM has large expertise in the area of transport systems. It works mostly interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, both at the national and at the European level.

With its studies FACTUM contributes to solutions for traffic and mobility problems, with sustainability in view. The main topics are:

  • Co-operation in the development of traffic-concepts;
  • Traffic-safety research and consulting;
  • Traffic-behaviour analyses and traffic-conflict observations;
  • Research of effects of technique measures on human behaviour;
  • Training and education of drivers with problematic behaviour (driver improvement), problem diagnostics and performance measurement;
  • Training and education in communication for both road users and experts.

The results provided by FACTUM"s work are regularly disseminated as journal articles, reports etc. Yearly reports are issued, mostly published by project sponsors. The main partners/sponsors of FACTUM are: European Commission, Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Municipality of Vienna.

FACTUM is an active member of the European Youth Forum for Road Safety. We are signatories of the "European Road Safety Charter" and the "European Youth Declaration for Road Safety".