Happy Birthday Marie Curie!

Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”

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New article: Stay local or go regional? Urban form effects on vehicle use at different spatial scales: A theoretical concept and its application to the San Francisco Bay Area

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Abstract: This paper explores the respective roles of local and regional characteristics of urban form on vehicle travel. We hypothesize that the effects of urban form on vehicle use at the local and regional levels are complementary, and we introduce the concept of local and regional action spaces, which are defined based on the accessibility of alternative means of transport within an acceptable travel time, to test this hypothesis. Multilevel and ordered logit models are developed for the San Francisco Bay Area to estimate the effects of urban form and socioeconomic characteristics on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) and vehicle trip frequency (for work, shopping, and social/recreational purposes). We find that the two urban scale characteristics exert complementary effects on VKT. However, because people in the San Francisco Bay Area display significantly lower VKT in the local than in the regional action space, we conclude that regional-scale inter-ventions would c…
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New article: Do people consider an acceptable travel time? Evidence from Berkeley, CA

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My August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship at TUM

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I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded the August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Munich!
Named after Professor August-Wilhelm Scheer, a renowned German pioneer in the field of computer science,the professorship is awarded to scientists with an outstanding international reputation who wish to engage in an intensive and sustainable collaboration with TUM researchers.
August-Wilhelm Scheer professors are expected to enrich the vibrant research culture at TUM by virtue of innovative approaches and to explore new, cutting-edge research fields.
Glad that I will jointly work with Professor Constantinos Antoniou and his team at the Chair ofTransportation Systems Engineering on new insights about acceptance of emerging mobility technologies!
Also happy that I will become a member of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) as part of my appointment at TUM. 

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