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Tallinn University (School of Humanities)
Tauri Tuvikene
Professor in Urban Studies
Tallinn University (School of Humanities)
Prof. Tauri Tuvikene is an urban and cultural geographer working at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University. His research covers the intersection of urban cultures, mobilities, cities and policies. The research interests include comparative urbanism and (re)conceptualisation of post-socialism as well as experiences and regulations of urban mobility ranging from automobility to walking and public transport. From 2019 to 2022 he was a Project Leader in a transnational project on urban transport and public space HERA PUTSPACE
Louise Sträuli
Ph.D. researcher
Tallinn University (School of Humanities) & Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, IGEAT)
Õnne Kask
Ph.D. researcher
Tallinn University (School of Humanities), Hendrikson & Ko
Kaire Holts
Postdoctoral researcher (in project until 31.8.2022)
Tallinn University (School of Humanities)
Kaire Holts works as a researcher at School of Humanities at Tallinn University. She is also an affiliate of the P2P Lab – an interdisciplinary research collective focused on the commons. Her research focuses on platform economy, changing landscape of work and the role of artificial intelligence in reshaping urban landscapes. She holds a PhD from University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kobe Boussauw
Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Mobility
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kobe Boussauw’s research deals with the reciprocal relationships between mobility, planning, and the built environment, both in an analytical and in a policy oriented sense. Within the first track, the way in which various aspects of spatial structure interact with each other is assessed, whereas in the second track the focus is on decision-making processes that impact on such spatial functioning. Kobe’s concern is mainly with the relationship between proximity as a spatial quality, urban liveability, and sustainability.
Marjolein Hantson
Ph.D. researcher
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marjolein Hantson holds a master degree in History (Ghent University, 2005), and a master degree in Urban Planning (Ghent University, 2006).
She has been working as a policy advisor on sustainable mobility and a planner for cycling infrastructure for the East-Flanders province administration.
At Cosmopolis, Marjolein is conducting research on transport poverty and transport justice, pursuing a PhD. The research, focusing on public transport on-demand, is part of the ‘Carin-PT’ JPI-project with project partners in Oslo, Stockholm and Tallinn.
Freke Caset
Postdoctoral researcher
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Freke Caset is a visiting scholar at Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research. She has a master’s degree in Geography (Ghent University, 2015) and obtained her PhD (2019) at Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Her PhD dissertation is titled ‘Planning for nodes, places, and people. A strategic railway station development tool for Flanders’, and centered on the development of a planning support tool to identify differentiated (spatial) development opportunities for railway station areas in Flanders and the wider Brussels metropolitan region (Belgium). She currently works as a postdoctoral (FWO-funded) researcher at the SEG research group of Ghent University, and Cosmopolis Research Group at VUB.
In her postdoctoral project she aims to creatively and significantly contribute to the literature on polycentric urban regions. Meanwhile Freke teaches social and economic geography at Ghent University.
Freke’s current research interests and pursuits are at the intersection of the fields of transport geography, urban geography and urban and regional planning.
Wojciech Kębłowski
Postdoctoral researcher
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wojciech Keblowski is a critical urban geographer working on critical social theory in relation to transport geography. Wojciech’s work focuses on two main themes. First, he is interested in brining critical social theory and decolonial theory to transport geography. He studies the political economy and governance of “sustainable” transport policies, transport in/formality, and publicness of public transport. He is particularly curious about practices of fare evasion and control, and the policy of fare abolition, otherwise known as fare-free public transport. Second, he studies diverse alternatives to the capitalist mode of producing urban space and society. These include practices inspired by the notion of circular economy and degrowth, and various examples of citizen participation, for instance the policy of participatory budgeting. He explores how, why and for whom these “alternatives” emerge, and how they are transferred and “mobilised” between urban contexts. Wojciech’s research has involved fieldwork in diverse cities in Western Europe (Aubagne, Brussels, Luxembourg, Helsinki, Madrid), Eastern Europe (Sopot, Wrocław, Tallinn), China (Chengdu) and Cuba (Santiago).
TOI, Institute of transport economics
Tanu Priya Uteng
Senior Research Planner
TOI Institute of transport economics
Tanu Priya Uteng, Ph.D., has worked extensively across a host of cross-cutting issues in the field of urban and transport planning. Her areas of expertise include: mobilities, social exclusion, travel behaviour, evaluation and gender studies. She is currently leading several long-term strategic projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Nordic research funding and EU, looking at topics like gendered mobilities, connectivity, shared solutions, and green-shift. In her research undertakings, she explores ‘place vs. space’ and ways to avoid creating anti-spaces. She has edited Gendered Mobilities (2008), Urban Mobilities in the Global South (2017) and Gendering Smart Mobilities (2020).
Fitwi Wolday
Senior Research Scientist
TOI Institute of transport economics
Fitwi Wolday has a background in economics and urban & regional planning. He is an expert on the interlocking of travel behavior and built environment, and transport policy. His research interests include the nexus between land-use and transport, residential preference and travel behavior, social sustainability in transport to name a few.
Nils Fearnley
Research Leader, Dept. of Markets and Governance
TOI Institute of transport economics
Nils Fearnley is leading several long-term and strategic projects on the topic of passenger transport and in particular, public transport, with focus on demand, pricing, financing, contracting, and governance.
Lars Böcker
Chief Research Geographer
TOI Institute of transport economics
Lars Böcker is a chief research geographer at the Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) and associate professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, with a PhD in Human Geography from Utrecht University. He publishes regularly in highly ranked peer-reviewed scientific journals on topics related to travel, health and sustainability behaviours, mobility justice, accessibility, smart cities and sustainable urban planning. He also lectures, supervises and coordinates research projects on these issues.
Eva-Gurine Skartland
Ph.D. researcher and urban planner
TOI
Tyréns
Mia Wahlström
Senior consultant and researcher Urban planning & Division of Smart Cities
Tyréns,
Open Universiteit – Herleen
Marcus Finbom
Traffic planner and expert in mobility
Tyréns
Marcus Finbom has a wide practical experience related to mobility. He has previously worked with several different research projects as well as perspectives of mobility justice. During 2020 Marcus was a research fellow at Tallinn University.
Vera Belaieff
Traffic planner
Tyréns
Vera Belaieff has experience in urban planning related to traffic planning, mobility and sustainable travel. She has experience from research projects regarding mobility solutions and parking. She has also worked with public transport and accessibility for city buses.
Lund University
VTI – The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute
Jean Ryan
Postdoctoral Fellow at Transport and Roads
Lund University / K2
Jean Ryan is a Researcher and Associate Senior Lecturer with a focus on accessibility analysis, and is affiliated with the Department for Technology and Society at Lund University. Jean is Project Manager for the K2 project Equitable accessibility by public transport: Moving from static analyses to incorporating time-space dynamics. She is also a carrying out research within the K2 project Capturing the impacts of changes in public transport accessibility: A mixed methods approach, which is led by Malmö University. Jean finalised her PhD at Lund University in March 2019, which was carried out within K2’s framework. Jean is also affiliated with CASE at Lund University.
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
Associate Professor in Political Science
Lund university
Chiara Vitrano
Researcher
VTI - The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute / K2
Chiara holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Pisa and a PhD in Urban Studies from the Gran Sasso Science Institute. Her research areas include mobilities and accessibility, social times and urban rhythms, social inequalities and social justice. During her research at K2 and Malmö University, Department of Urban Studies, she studied the spatio-temporal dimension of accessibility inequalities in peripheral neighbourhoods in Malmö and the temporal well-being of urban bus drivers in Gothenburg and Stockholm. She is currently working as a researcher at K2 and VTI, focusing, among others, on accessibility and transport justice.
Scientific Advisory Board
Mia Hesselgren
Researcher in Design for Sustainable Mobility
KTH - Royal Institue of Technology
Karel Martens
Professor of Transport Planning
Fair Transport Lab Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Karel Martens is Professor of Transport Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel) and the head of the Fair Transport Lab. He holds a bachelor and master degree in Spatial Planning (1986; 1991) and a PhD in Policy Sciences (2000), all from Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). He is an international expert on transport and justice. He has authored numerous publications on the topic, culminating in his book Transport Justice: Designing Fair Transportation Systems, which has been described by colleagues as “ground-breaking”, “a landmark” and “a revolution”. His work has resonated in the research community as well as in practice, as evidenced by numerous invitations for keynote and public lectures, among others in Belgium, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, South-Africa, and Sweden. In 2014, Martens was elected Transport Professional of the Year in the Netherlands, in part because of his inspiring work on transport and justice.
Maria Attard
Professor of Urban Transport
Geography Department - L-Università ta´ Malta
Yusak Susilo
Professor of transport Studies
Institute for Transport Studies - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
Yusak Susilo is a professor of Transport Studies at the Institue for Transport Studies – University of Natural Science in Vienna.
His main fields of activity are digitalisation in transport system and mobility services; user adaptation and learning process towards digitisation, automation and other new technologies; users’ needs and multimodal travel analysis; time-use, destination choices, and well-being; and transportation in developing countries.