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Dr. Tim Schwanen
Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK

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Journal article
Published: 19 November 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Vehicle fleets are considered an important context for the deployment of innovations such as electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Fleet vehicles constitute a significant share of vehicle registrations, yet little research has been conducted into how the make-up of the changing fleet market could influence upscaling of innovations. This paper presents an in-depth study of the fleet market in the United Kingdom and assesses synergies between V2G and vehicle fleets by analysing socio-technical trends. The approach taken allows for analysing the role of users and markets in upscaling socio-technical transitions. The paper provides a system-level account of the fleet market, and shows how changing user characteristics, the rise of telematics, Low Emission Zones and changes to business operations and labour relations present specific drivers and challenges for V2G. It is concluded that user-related changes in the market environment are highly influential in shaping the upscaling trajectory of sustainable innovations such as V2G.

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Toon Meelen; Brendan Doody; Tim Schwanen. Vehicle-to-Grid in the UK fleet market: An analysis of upscaling potential in a changing environment. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 290, 125203 .

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Toon Meelen, Brendan Doody, Tim Schwanen. Vehicle-to-Grid in the UK fleet market: An analysis of upscaling potential in a changing environment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 290 ():125203.

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Toon Meelen; Brendan Doody; Tim Schwanen. 2020. "Vehicle-to-Grid in the UK fleet market: An analysis of upscaling potential in a changing environment." Journal of Cleaner Production 290, no. : 125203.

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Published: 03 November 2020
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This study uses mobile phone data to examine how socioeconomic status was associated with the extent of mobility reduction during the spring 2020 lockdown in England in a manner that considers both potentially confounding effects and spatial dependency and heterogeneity. It shows that socioeconomic status as approximated through income and occupation was strongly correlated with the extent of mobility reduction. It also demonstrates that the specific nature of the association of socioeconomic status with mobility reduction varied markedly across England. Finally, the analysis suggests that the ability to restrict everyday mobility in response to a national lockdown is distributed in a spatially uneven manner, and may need to be considered a luxury or, failing that, a tactic of survival for specific social groups.

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Won Do Lee; Matthias Qian; Tim Schwanen. The association between socioeconomic status and mobility reductions in the early stage of England’s COVID-19 epidemic. 2020, 1 .

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Won Do Lee, Matthias Qian, Tim Schwanen. The association between socioeconomic status and mobility reductions in the early stage of England’s COVID-19 epidemic. . 2020; ():1.

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Won Do Lee; Matthias Qian; Tim Schwanen. 2020. "The association between socioeconomic status and mobility reductions in the early stage of England’s COVID-19 epidemic." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 07 September 2020 in Journal of Transport Geography
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There is substantial evidence that the environment has an important impact on the use of bicycles. Changes in the built environment, such as cycling infrastructure provision, usually aim at improving the efficiency, enjoyability and safety of cycling. They can also shape affective responses, for instance by triggering or preventing stress situations during cycling. The repeated occurrence of intensely stressful events may make actual cyclists more likely to abandon cycling and deter prospective cyclists from actually taking up this form of mobility. Therefore, using a novel approach, based on stress biomarker measurements obtained directly from cyclists, the objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between urban environment and cyclists' stress. It also investigates if different types of cycling infrastructures in the contexts of two different countries and in five different cities have different relationships with stress. Using a stress sensor, 70 young adults were invited to cycle along a standard route in Oxford, London (the United Kingdom), Amsterdam, Houten and Groningen (the Netherlands). These routes were around 6 km long and had a wide range of characteristics. Multilevel logistic regression analysis indicates that the probability of stressful events occurring is significantly lower on physically segregated cycle paths than on cycle paths on streets, with cycling on general use streets falling in-between these extremes. We also find higher probabilities of stress for primary roads compared to tertiary roads, at intersections than on straight roads, on cobbled and off-road surfaces compared to asphalt, and in noisier places. Models for the individual cities suggested that the relationship between cycling infrastructure and the likelihood of stressful events occurring may depend on the local context. Only for noise conditions, intersection types and cycling infrastructures were the effects consistent across the cities. These findings may be useful for urban infrastructure planning and management, indicating specific attributes that should be adjusted to make cycling less stressful.

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Inaian Pignatti Teixeira; Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva; Tim Schwanen; Gustavo Garcia Manzato; Linda Dörrzapf; Peter Zeile; Luc Dekoninck; Dick Botteldooren. Does cycling infrastructure reduce stress biomarkers in commuting cyclists? A comparison of five European cities. Journal of Transport Geography 2020, 88, 102830 .

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Inaian Pignatti Teixeira, Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva, Tim Schwanen, Gustavo Garcia Manzato, Linda Dörrzapf, Peter Zeile, Luc Dekoninck, Dick Botteldooren. Does cycling infrastructure reduce stress biomarkers in commuting cyclists? A comparison of five European cities. Journal of Transport Geography. 2020; 88 ():102830.

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Inaian Pignatti Teixeira; Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva; Tim Schwanen; Gustavo Garcia Manzato; Linda Dörrzapf; Peter Zeile; Luc Dekoninck; Dick Botteldooren. 2020. "Does cycling infrastructure reduce stress biomarkers in commuting cyclists? A comparison of five European cities." Journal of Transport Geography 88, no. : 102830.

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Published: 26 August 2020 in Journal of Transport Geography
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This article analyses how human subjects are imagined and conceived in research on transport in the analytical and quantitative traditions in geography and beyond, and outlines several alternative practices of subject formation. It draws on the writings of Sylvia Wynter to argue that, despite long-standing engagement with thinking from the behavioural sciences to diversify economics and engineering oriented understandings of the human subject, analytical/quantitative research on transport remains caught within western-liberal and ‘monohumanist’ conceptualisations of humanness. These understandings can be dislodged if research concentrates on the transport-related practices and experiences of people who are both inside and outside valorised subject categories and harnesses stories of how people constitute themselves, others and their worlds in and through daily movements. Existing mobilities scholarship, research on brain activity in human-environment interactions, geo-narrative methods, and avoiding binary oppositions such as formal/informal transport can all contribute to alternative practices of subject formation in analytical and quantitative transport geography research.

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Tim Schwanen. Towards decolonial human subjects in research on transport. Journal of Transport Geography 2020, 88, 102849 .

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Tim Schwanen. Towards decolonial human subjects in research on transport. Journal of Transport Geography. 2020; 88 ():102849.

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Tim Schwanen. 2020. "Towards decolonial human subjects in research on transport." Journal of Transport Geography 88, no. : 102849.

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Published: 20 July 2020 in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
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Eric T. H. Chan; Tingting Elle Li; Tim Schwanen; David Banister. People and their walking environments: An exploratory study of meanings, place and times. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2020, 1 -12.

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Eric T. H. Chan, Tingting Elle Li, Tim Schwanen, David Banister. People and their walking environments: An exploratory study of meanings, place and times. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 2020; ():1-12.

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Eric T. H. Chan; Tingting Elle Li; Tim Schwanen; David Banister. 2020. "People and their walking environments: An exploratory study of meanings, place and times." International Journal of Sustainable Transportation , no. : 1-12.

Commentary
Published: 01 February 2020 in One Earth
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London is a leading example of how cities are transitioning toward low-carbon mobility, but it is unclear how just this transformation is. Offering more and better support to citizen-led initiatives that support walking and cycling can make the shift to low-carbon mobility in London more just.

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Tim Schwanen. Low-Carbon Mobility in London: A Just Transition? One Earth 2020, 2, 132 -134.

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Tim Schwanen. Low-Carbon Mobility in London: A Just Transition? One Earth. 2020; 2 (2):132-134.

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Tim Schwanen. 2020. "Low-Carbon Mobility in London: A Just Transition?" One Earth 2, no. 2: 132-134.

Journal article
Published: 17 September 2019 in Journal of Transport Geography
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This paper reflects on how Transport Geography has examined the relationships between climate change, transport and space. It identifies four tendencies in engagements so far – uneven attention; separation between climate change mitigation and adaptation; continuity in theory, method and research praxis; and over-reliance on ‘Western’ thinking and worldviews. It develops an agenda for further research that emphasises the importance of considering all modes and forms of transport, moving beyond the mitigation and adaptation distinction, and foregrounding the socio-political nature of the relationships between climate change, transport and space. It also argues that research praxis has to be revised if those relationships are to be understood adequately, suggesting that critical reflexivity on concepts is a useful step in this direction. The paper then introduces and illustrates an approach to the (re)invention of concepts about the relationships between transport, climate change and space. It concludes by urging transport geographers to work with concepts co-produced with a much wider range of constituencies than usually considered and to develop new methods for tracking the events created by new concepts.

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Tim Schwanen. Transport geography, climate change and space: opportunity for new thinking. Journal of Transport Geography 2019, 81, 102530 .

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Tim Schwanen. Transport geography, climate change and space: opportunity for new thinking. Journal of Transport Geography. 2019; 81 ():102530.

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Tim Schwanen. 2019. "Transport geography, climate change and space: opportunity for new thinking." Journal of Transport Geography 81, no. : 102530.

Journal article
Published: 20 July 2019 in Cities
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Geographical differences in wellbeing have attracted increased attention in the science of happiness literature and recent research has become particularly interested in high-resolution spatial differentiation within cities. This study contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationships between subjective wellbeing and relative income at the neighborhood level using activity-travel survey data from 2010 in Hong Kong. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis concentrates not only on life satisfaction but also on pleasure derived from daily activities in the city, and considers relative income in people's residential neighborhood and the neighborhoods where they conduct different types of daily activity. The results suggest that social comparisons with regard to income matter to life satisfaction as well as emotional wellbeing, that the effects occur for both the residential neighborhood and the urban places where daily activities are undertaken, and that downward income comparisons tend to have stronger effects on wellbeing than upward comparison. One theoretical implication that follows from the analysis is that the impact of social comparison in the science of happiness needs to be theorized as dynamic, mobile and contingent upon people's daily trajectories through time and urban space.

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Donggen Wang; Tim Schwanen; Zidan Mao. Does exposure to richer and poorer neighborhoods influence wellbeing? Cities 2019, 95, 102408 .

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Donggen Wang, Tim Schwanen, Zidan Mao. Does exposure to richer and poorer neighborhoods influence wellbeing? Cities. 2019; 95 ():102408.

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Donggen Wang; Tim Schwanen; Zidan Mao. 2019. "Does exposure to richer and poorer neighborhoods influence wellbeing?" Cities 95, no. : 102408.

Journal article
Published: 05 November 2018 in Geoforum
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As they go about everyday life, members of households negotiate complex arrangements around mobility and immobility, which continue to change over time. Mobility biographies research has made an important contribution to our understanding of these dynamics. At the same time, mobility biographies often rely on limited definitions of the household and change over the life-course, reflecting an empirical focus on cohabiting nuclear families in North-West Europe. In this paper, we approach everyday im/mobilities as based in the changing relations of care which shape the everyday life of households. We demonstrate how the care relations which underlie everyday im/mobilities are gendered and intergenerational, exceeding distinctions between productive and reproductive activities, or living together and apart. The transformations which everyday im/mobilities undergo over the life-course are not limited to pre-defined milestones, but unfold through a range of abrupt, subtle and multi-directional processes. Drawing on data from Manila and London, we examine these dynamics with particular reference to childcare and ageing, in order to make visible the complex ways in which households negotiate and re-negotiate everyday im/mobilities.

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Anna Plyushteva; Tim Schwanen. Care-related journeys over the life course: Thinking mobility biographies with gender, care and the household. Geoforum 2018, 97, 131 -141.

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Anna Plyushteva, Tim Schwanen. Care-related journeys over the life course: Thinking mobility biographies with gender, care and the household. Geoforum. 2018; 97 ():131-141.

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Anna Plyushteva; Tim Schwanen. 2018. "Care-related journeys over the life course: Thinking mobility biographies with gender, care and the household." Geoforum 97, no. : 131-141.

Journal article
Published: 13 August 2018 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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There is renewed and increasing interest in understanding the part that infrastructures play in societal transformations, especially in response to the various challenges of climate change. Studies that focus on these issues tend to examine infrastructures in isolation from each other, and tend to work with evolutionary accounts of incremental change punctuated by short periods of radical innovation. This paper questions both these abstractions. Using four empirical cases, it directs attention to intersections between infrastructures at specific times and places, highlighting the dynamic qualities of infrastructures-in-use, and conceptualising societal transformations as outcomes of these intersections. Four forms of intersection are elaborated – co-constitution, adaptation and threading through, historical layering, and coexisting configurations. Instances of each are used to illustrate some of complex and often ambiguous processes through which infrastructures interact. The paper ends by outlining implications for future research and for interventions by policy-makers and others seeking to influence the ways in which infrastructures intersect.

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Noel Cass; Tim Schwanen; Elizabeth Shove. Infrastructures, intersections and societal transformations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2018, 137, 160 -167.

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Noel Cass, Tim Schwanen, Elizabeth Shove. Infrastructures, intersections and societal transformations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2018; 137 ():160-167.

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Noel Cass; Tim Schwanen; Elizabeth Shove. 2018. "Infrastructures, intersections and societal transformations." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 137, no. : 160-167.

Comment
Published: 03 July 2018 in Palgrave Communications
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For centuries the transport of people and goods across the globe has been shaped profoundly by Western and other colonialisms. Impacts on the development of infrastructures such as roads, railways and ports as well as transport flows within, to and from origins and destinations are increasingly documented. This essay proposes that expert knowledge about and way of knowing transport systems and practices in former and current colonies are at least as much shaped by Western colonialisms. It advocates a decolonisation of that knowledge and proposes a dual strategy of complicating, slowing down and disrupting existing expert knowledge about transport and of putting new concepts, theories and methodological practices in critical dialogue with each other and hegemonic transport research practices. It also emphasises that moving beyond transport expertise’s colonial legacy is a project that should be led from outside historically emerged centres of knowledge production.

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Tim Schwanen. Towards decolonised knowledge about transport. Palgrave Communications 2018, 4, 79 .

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Tim Schwanen. Towards decolonised knowledge about transport. Palgrave Communications. 2018; 4 (1):79.

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Tim Schwanen. 2018. "Towards decolonised knowledge about transport." Palgrave Communications 4, no. 1: 79.

Journal article
Published: 15 June 2018 in Journal of Medical Internet Research
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Journal of Medical Internet Research - International Scientific Journal for Medical Research, Information and Communication on the Internet #Preprint #PeerReviewMe: Warning: This is a unreviewed preprint. Readers are warned that the document has not been peer-reviewed by expert/patient reviewers or an academic editor, may contain misleading claims, and is likely to undergo changes before final publication, if accepted, or may have been rejected/withdrawn. Readers with interest and expertise are encouraged to sign up as peer-reviewer, if the paper is within an open peer-review period. Please cite this preprint only for review purposes or for grant applications and CVs (if you are the author). Background: Physical activity has long been considered an important component of a healthy lifestyle. Although many efforts have been made to promote physical activity, there has yet to be an effective global intervention in physical activity promotion. Some researchers suggest that Pokémon GO, a location-based augmented reality (AR) game, effectively promotes physical activity on a global scale, but the details of the impact are far from clear. Objective: To study the impact of Pokémon GO on players’ physical activity, and how the impact varies across players with different physical activity levels. Methods: We conducted a field study to investigate Pokémon GO’s impacts on physical activity in five types of built environment in Hong Kong. Pokémon GO Players were asked to report their demographics through a survey, and their Pokémon GO behaviours and data of daily walking and running distance were collected from their mobile phones. Participants (n=210) were residents of Hong Kong, aged 13 to 65 years old and playing Pokémon GO using iPhone 5 or 6 series in five selected types of built environment. We measured the average daily walking and running distance over a period of 35 days, from 14 days before to 21 days after installation of Pokémon GO. Multilevel modelling was used to identify and examine the predictors – including Pokémon GO behaviours, weather; demographics and built environment – of Pokémon GO’s impact on daily walking and running distance. Results: Average daily walking and running distance increased 18.1% (0.96 km) in the 21 days after participants installed Pokémon GO compared with the distance over the 14 days before installation. However, this impact attenuated over time and is estimated to disappear after 26 days (P<0.001). Multilevel models indicate that Pokémon GO has a stronger and more lasting impact on less physically active players than more physically active ones (P<0.001). Playing Pokémon GO in green space has a significant positive relationship with walking and running distance (P<0.001). Moreover, results show that Pokémon GO behaviours – play Pokémon GO or not, as well as days played, weather (total rainfall, bright sunshine, mean air temperature, and mean wind speed), and demographics (age, gender, income, education, and BMI) – were associated with walking and running distance. Conclusions: Pokémon GO can efficiently activate players, especially less physically active ones, to do physical activity. Pokémon GO has the potential to build new links between humans and green space to encourage people to do physical activity. The results indicate that location-based AR games, such as Pokémon GO, have a great potential to be an effective public health intervention at the global scale.

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Rolf Kretschmann; Tongmeng Jiang; Tim Schwanen; John Zacharias; MuDi Zhou; Ichiro Kawachi; Guibo Sun. Pokémon GO and Physical Activity in Asia: Multilevel Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2018, 20, e217 .

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Rolf Kretschmann, Tongmeng Jiang, Tim Schwanen, John Zacharias, MuDi Zhou, Ichiro Kawachi, Guibo Sun. Pokémon GO and Physical Activity in Asia: Multilevel Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2018; 20 (6):e217.

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Rolf Kretschmann; Tongmeng Jiang; Tim Schwanen; John Zacharias; MuDi Zhou; Ichiro Kawachi; Guibo Sun. 2018. "Pokémon GO and Physical Activity in Asia: Multilevel Study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 20, no. 6: e217.

Original articles
Published: 09 May 2018 in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
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Previous studies have indicated that travel satisfaction - the experienced emotions during, and cognitive evaluation of, a trip - can be affected by travel mode choice and other trip characteristics. However, as satisfactory trips might improve a person's attitude towards the used mode, persons may be more likely to use that same mode for future trips of the same kind. Hence, a cyclical process between travel mode choice and travel satisfaction might occur. In this paper we begin to analyse this process—using a structural equation modelling approach on cross-sectional data—for people who engage in walking and cycling for leisure trips in the Belgian city of Ghent. The focus on walking and cycling reflects recent studies indicating that active travel is often associated with the highest levels of travel satisfaction. Results of this exploratory analysis offer tentative support for the idea of a cyclical process: the evaluation of walking and cycling trips positively affects the respondents' attitude towards the respective mode, which in turn has a positive effect on choosing that mode.

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Jonas De Vos; Tim Schwanen; Veronique Van Acker; Frank Witlox. Do satisfying walking and cycling trips result in more future trips with active travel modes? An exploratory study. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2018, 13, 180 -196.

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Jonas De Vos, Tim Schwanen, Veronique Van Acker, Frank Witlox. Do satisfying walking and cycling trips result in more future trips with active travel modes? An exploratory study. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 2018; 13 (3):180-196.

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Jonas De Vos; Tim Schwanen; Veronique Van Acker; Frank Witlox. 2018. "Do satisfying walking and cycling trips result in more future trips with active travel modes? An exploratory study." International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 13, no. 3: 180-196.

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Published: 26 March 2018 in Sustainability
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Contemporary systems of mobility are undergoing a transition towards automation. In the UK, this transition is being led by (often new) partnerships between incumbent manufacturers and new entrants, in collaboration with national governments, local/regional councils, and research institutions. This paper first offers a framework for analyzing the governance of the transition, adapting ideas from the Transition Management (TM) perspective, and then applies the framework to ongoing automated vehicle transition dynamics in the UK. The empirical analysis suggests that the UK has adopted a reasonably comprehensive approach to the governing of automated vehicle innovation but that this approach cannot be characterized as sufficiently inclusive, democratic, diverse and open. The lack of inclusivity, democracy, diversity and openness is symptomatic of the post-political character of how the UK’s automated mobility transition is being governed. The paper ends with a call for a reconfiguration of the automated vehicle transition in the UK and beyond, so that much more space is created for dissent and for reflexive and comprehensive big picture thinking on (automated) mobility futures.

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Debbie Hopkins; Tim Schwanen. Automated Mobility Transitions: Governing Processes in the UK. Sustainability 2018, 10, 956 .

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Debbie Hopkins, Tim Schwanen. Automated Mobility Transitions: Governing Processes in the UK. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (4):956.

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Debbie Hopkins; Tim Schwanen. 2018. "Automated Mobility Transitions: Governing Processes in the UK." Sustainability 10, no. 4: 956.

Journal article
Published: 14 March 2018 in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
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Although various forms of uncertainty have been examined in studies of how geographical contexts influence mobility in recent years, this article argues that greater attention should be paid to those types that cannot be tackled automatically with better data or analysis techniques. Using cycling adoption and levels as an example, it reflects on some of the uncertainties resulting from reliance in empirical research on the assumption of causality as regularity in conjunction between dependent and independent variables. It suggests that working with other understandings of causality can begin to shed light on difficult-to-detect forms of ignorance and generate more dynamic and precise insights into how contexts condition and shape behaviors and spatial practices.

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Tim Schwanen. Uncertainty in Contextual Effects on Mobility: An Exploration of Causality. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2018, 108, 1506 -1512.

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Tim Schwanen. Uncertainty in Contextual Effects on Mobility: An Exploration of Causality. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2018; 108 (6):1506-1512.

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Tim Schwanen. 2018. "Uncertainty in Contextual Effects on Mobility: An Exploration of Causality." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, no. 6: 1506-1512.

Journal article
Published: 14 March 2018 in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
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This article introduces the background and contents of this forum, which includes six articles based on presentations in the opening and closing plenary sessions of the featured theme on “Context and Uncertainty in Geography and GIScience” at the 2017 American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Boston. The purpose of the featured theme was to explore and deepen our understanding of the spatiotemporal uncertainties in the contextual influences on human behavior, practice, and experience. The articles in this forum focus on specific themes concerning context and uncertainty in geographic and GIScience research. They provide a helpful discussion of the complexity and challenges of specific issues through different theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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Mei-Po Kwan; Tim Schwanen. Context and Uncertainty in Geography and GIScience: Advances in Theory, Method, and Practice. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2018, 108, 1473 -1475.

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Mei-Po Kwan, Tim Schwanen. Context and Uncertainty in Geography and GIScience: Advances in Theory, Method, and Practice. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2018; 108 (6):1473-1475.

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Mei-Po Kwan; Tim Schwanen. 2018. "Context and Uncertainty in Geography and GIScience: Advances in Theory, Method, and Practice." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, no. 6: 1473-1475.

Journal article
Published: 22 October 2017 in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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More than ever is Geography surrounded by interdisciplinary movements claiming expertise with regard to the interconnections among nature, society and technology. These movements ask questions from Geography and geographers about if and how they can contribute to those movements and what form collaboration might take. This paper analyses Human Geography's interactions with research on sustainability transitions since the early 2000s to think through future interactions between Geography and research on the water–energy–food nexus. It shows that concepts, ideas, logics and methods have travelled from Human Geography into Transition Studies but that exchange between them has so far been partial and asymmetrical. Arguing that common ideas about how interdisciplinarity can be encouraged might be insufficient to change this situation, the paper develops ideas from Stengers, Whitehead, Foucault and others to explain the relations between Human Geography and Transition Studies in terms of modes of abstraction in an evolving ecology of power relations. It makes a case for slowing down modes of abstraction and proposes some ideas for slow collaborative research on sustainability transitions in contact zones. Implications for how Geography and geographers might engage with interdisciplinary nexus research are outlined.

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Tim Schwanen. Thinking complex interconnections: Transition, nexus and Geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2017, 43, 262 -283.

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Tim Schwanen. Thinking complex interconnections: Transition, nexus and Geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2017; 43 (2):262-283.

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Tim Schwanen. 2017. "Thinking complex interconnections: Transition, nexus and Geography." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43, no. 2: 262-283.

Research article
Published: 03 April 2017 in Progress in Human Geography
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This third report in the series reviews recent research on the geographies of transport in Africa, Asia and Latin America to reflect on the spatialities of knowledge production and the question as to whether a post/decolonial turn is occurring in geographical scholarship on transport. A simple and heuristic classification scheme is developed and deployed to demonstrate that predominantly western worldviews, theories, concepts, methods and research practices continue to prevail in geographical scholarship on transport in the Global South. It is also shown that this hegemony is being reworked and resisted in various ways, and the report concludes with suggestions about how geographical scholarship on transport can be worlded and ultimately decolonized further.

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Tim Schwanen. Geographies of transport III. Progress in Human Geography 2017, 42, 1 .

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Tim Schwanen. Geographies of transport III. Progress in Human Geography. 2017; 42 (3):1.

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Tim Schwanen. 2017. "Geographies of transport III." Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 3: 1.

Research article
Published: 31 January 2016 in Progress in Human Geography
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Geographical scholarship on transport has been boosted by the emergence of big data and advances in the analysis of complex networks in other disciplines, but these developments are a mixed blessing. They allow transport as object of analysis to exist in new ways and raise the profile of geography in interdisciplinary spaces dominated by physics and complexity science. Yet, they have also brought back concerns over the privileging of generality over particularity. This is because they have once more made acceptable and even normalized a focus on supposedly universal laws that explain the functioning of mobility systems and on space and time independent explanations of hierarchies, inequalities and vulnerabilities in transport systems and patterns. Geographical scholarship on transport should remain open to developments in big data and network science but would benefit from more critical reflexivity on the limitations and the historical and geographical situatedness of big data and on the conceptual shortcomings of network science. Big data and network analysis need to be critiqued and re-appropriated, and examples of how this can be done are starting to emerge. Openness, critique and re-appropriation are especially important in a context where transport geography decentralizes away from its Euro-American core, and the development pathways of transport and mobility in localities beyond that core deserve their own, unique explanations.

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Tim Schwanen. Geographies of transport II. Progress in Human Geography 2016, 41, 355 -364.

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Tim Schwanen. Geographies of transport II. Progress in Human Geography. 2016; 41 (3):355-364.

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Tim Schwanen. 2016. "Geographies of transport II." Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 3: 355-364.

Introduction
Published: 29 January 2016 in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
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This introductory piece sets the context for the special issue and explains its rationale. It offers a series of reflections on the rise of the mobilities turn and its relations with preexisting research traditions, most notably transportation geography. Rather than placing different approaches in opposition and favoring one over others, we contend that all need to be seen as situated, partial, and also generative modes of abstraction. Each of these approaches makes mobility exist in specific and ultimately simplified and selective ways. In addition, we argue that geography as a pluralistic discipline will benefit from further conversations between modes of conceptualizing, theorizing, and examining mobility. We outline five lines along which such conversations can be structured: conceptualizations and analysis, inequality, politics, decentering and decolonization, and qualifying abstraction. The article concludes with discussion on three fruitful directions for future research on mobility.

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Mei-Po Kwan; Tim Schwanen. Geographies of Mobility. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2016, 1 -14.

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Mei-Po Kwan, Tim Schwanen. Geographies of Mobility. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2016; ():1-14.

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Mei-Po Kwan; Tim Schwanen. 2016. "Geographies of Mobility." Annals of the American Association of Geographers , no. : 1-14.