Happy to see my article on academic (air) travel being covered by nature: nature.com/articles/d4158… The original open access article can be read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe… UCL The Bartlett School of Planning

Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on! A study co-authored by Debbie Hopkins and @TimSchwanen highlights findings from a survey of a top university about their travel habits. Read more nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Times (The Times and The Sunday Times) is covering our research on academic travel and academics' related attitudes: thetimes.com/article/010d63… The original open access article can be read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe… Tim Schwanen Debbie Hopkins The Bartlett School of Planning UCL News

In the latest issue of 2024, we have interesting review articles on AVs, road user safety, transport-related inequalities, mobility hubs, transport and well-being policies, and public transport use of people with autism, etc. Have a look at: lnkd.in/eZnaHBNb

Happy to be included in clarivate's highly cited researchers list, together with planning colleague Fulong Wu. The Bartlett School of Planning ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/dec/…

In this new paper, we found that Ease of Travel (people's perceived ability to travel) impacts travel mode choice, travel distance and duration when travelling to campus, while positively affecting the perceived accessibility of the campus. Available OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.…

In this paper, visiting PhD student Cong Qi found that - based on longitudinal data - perceived bikeability positively impacts cycling distances and cycling preferences in the subsequent year. The OA paper can be accessed here: doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.…

Congratulations to Rachel Burbidge Enviro and colleagues for winning the 2025 Moshe Givoni Prize for their paper entitled: “A systematic review of adaption to climate change impacts in the aviation sector”. The paper is available OA here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Bartlett Retains global #1 ranking for 2025 🌍 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that The Bartlett has been ranked #1 for Architecture and the Built Environment in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 for a third year. 🔗 Read more: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/…

A new literature review paper from our team on Perceived Accessibility with Hisham Negm, Joans De Vos & Felix Pot an area of research that has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… funded by NSERC / CRSNG & SSHRC

In this new paper, we found that perceived walkability is mainly affected by walking attitudes and that respondents with higher levels of perceived walkability walk longer and more frequently. The paper is available open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.…

In this study, we found that Ease of Travel (EoT) positively affects travel satisfaction, even after controlling for other elements. This indicates that EoT is an important predictor of travel satisfaction. The paper is available OA: doi.org/10.1007/s11116…

Are you around at #transportationresearch2025? Come have a look at my poster at p2.074

We are organising a special issue on transport and equity. If interested, submit an extended abstract to the editors by July 15th. For more information on the special issue, its guidelines and timeline, see: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

Are you doing transport research in or about Europe, do consider submitting your next paper to the new European Transport Studies journal: Elsevier Transport doi.org/10.1016/j.ets.…

A special issue on 'perceived accessibility' has been completed in Transportation Research Part A, including 19 novel research papers. The editorial with descriptions of the papers can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.… Ahmed El-Geneidy Dea van Lierop Felix

Have a look at our July issue, with articles on transport policy, transport infrastructure, modal shift, school transportation, well-being, cycling, sense of place, LGBTQI+, etc. All the articles in this issue can be found here: tandfonline.com/toc/ttrv20/45/…

In this study, I explored actual, ideal and tolerable commute times of 2000+ UCL students/staff and found, among others, that having a commute time close to the ideal, or far below the max. tolerable strongly impacts commute satisfaction. OA article: doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.…

It’s the final week to submit your abstract for the 6th World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR), happening in Beijing, June 7–11, 2026. Join researchers from around the world! Jonas De Vos WSTLUR: wstlur.org Submit here: wstlur2026.casconf.cn

Last days (deadline Nov. 15) to submit an abstract for the 2026 WSTLUR conference, in Beijing, June 7-11: easychair.org/conferences/?c… For more info on the conference (with keynote speakers K. Lucas, D. Ettema, J. Cao, M. Zuidgeest, D. Wang, J. Wang) see: wstlur2026.casconf.cn