Dr. Uta Burghard

Vita

Uta Burghard studied social sciences at the Universities of Mannheim, Gießen and Brussels. From 2011 to 2024, she worked as a research associate and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, in the field of actors and acceptance in the transformation of the energy system. In 2014, she was a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Centre for Transport Research. In 2017, she completed her doctorate with her dissertation ‘Urbane Mobilität im Umbruch. Normen, Leitbilder und familiäre Aushandlungsprozesse zu Autos und Elektroautos’ at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Faculty of Cultural Studies. Between 2021 and 2024, she was a lecturer in the Master's programme RASUM - Risk Assessment and Sustainability Management at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.  

Since June 2024, she has been employed as an academic assistant at the Chair of Cycling at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.

Teaching

Teaching in the Bachelor's programme ‘Traffic System Management’:

VSMB710 Sustainabile Mobility

Research

Main research areas: Social science mobility research and qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical social research. Strategies to promote cycling as an everyday means of transport and the relationship between mobility, social participation and gender aspects.

Publications

Publications (selection)

Scherrer, A.; Lockwood, M.; Burghard, U.; Rogge, K. S. (2026): Institutional barriers to dynamic truck charging: why electric road systems struggle in Europe, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 153, 2026, 105154,
doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2025.105154.

Hille, C.; Burghard, U.; Gather, M. (2025): Mehr als nur Fortbewegung: Wie das Deutschlandticket die soziale Teilhabe stärkt. Internationales Verkehrswesen Heft 77/3: Verkehrsplanung, S. 23-27.

Burghard, U.; Helferich, M.; Hille, C.; Tröger, J.; Graf, A.; Dütschke, E. (2025): Radfahren in Zeiten des Klimawandels – macht Hitze das Radfahren (im Alltag) unattraktiver? DVWG Journal für Mobilität und Verkehr, Ausgabe 23 (2025), S. 22-29.

Burghard, U.; Scherrer, A.; Helferich, M.; Breuer, M. (2024): Are overhead catenary trucks perceived as legitimate and accepted? Evidence from Germany. In: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 134, 104323, doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2024.104323

Burghard, U.; Scherrer, A. (2022): Sharing vehicles or sharing rides - Psychological factors influencing the acceptance of carsharing and ridepooling in Germany. In: Energy Policy, 164, 112874. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112874 

Burghard, U.; Dütschke, E.; Caldes, N.; Oltra, C. (2022): Cross-border concentrated solar power projects – opportunity or dead end? A study into actor views in Europe. In: Energy Policy, (163), 112833.

Krauß, K.; Scherrer, A.; Burghard, U.; Doll, C.; Schuler, J.; Niessen, P. (2021): Shared Mobility Facts. Wie lassen sich (geteilte) Mobilitätsdienste erfolgreich in kommunale Mobilitätssysteme integrieren - und wer nutzt sie? Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer ISI, 2021, 27 S. 

Burghard, U.; Dütschke, E. (2019): Who wants shared mobility? Lessons from early adopters and mainstream drivers on electric carsharing Germany. ScienceDirect, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 04.12.2018.

Lectures (selection)

(2025). How is the bicycle used and perceived to escort children and what role does gender play? Analyses based on a representative population survey in Germany. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025, August 26 -29, 2025, Birmingham, United Kingdom.  

(2025). The bicycle as an inclusive and equitable mode of transport? Examining Gender and Income Disparities in Cycling in Germany. Velo-city Conference 2025, 10-13 June 2025, Gdansk, Poland.

(2025). Erreichbarkeit und soziale Teilhabe – Welchen Beitrag leistet das Deutschland-Ticket? Eine Befragung einkommensschwacher Haushalte in Karlsruhe und Erfurt. Dortmunder Konferenz Raum‐ und Planungsforschung - DOKORP 2025, 11. – 12 Februar 2025, Dortmund.

(2024). Exploring the gender cycling gap in the context of caring responsibilities. 2024 Urbanism Next Europe Conference, October 9-11, 2024, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

(2023). Fair, Reliable, Independent and Cost-Effective? Preferences of German citizens regarding the design of the energy transition. BEHAVE 2023, 7th European Conference on Behaviour Change for Energy Efficiency, 28-29 November 2023, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

(2023). Catenary trucks to decarbonize freight transport - Local acceptance of a field test in Germany. ICEP 2023 International Conference on Environmental Psychology, 20-23 June 2023, Aarhus, Denmark. 

 (2023). Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von Elektrofahrzeugen - wo hakt es noch? Elektromobilitäts-Konferenz 2023 des BMDV, 21.3.2023, Hamburg.