Professor Tim Schwanen
Professor of Transport Geography and Director of the Transport Studies Unit
About
Dr Schwanen’s research sits at the intersection of urban, transport, cultural and political and economic geography. He is particularly interested in transitions to low-carbon and low-energy living and societies and the geographies of ageing, mobility and well-being.
Expertise
- Passenger transport
- Transport and climate change
- The experience of everyday transport and the links between transport and wellbeing and quality of life
- Transport and social inequality
Selected publications
- Achieving just transitions to low-carbon urban mobility (Nature Energy, 2021)
- The association between socioeconomic status and mobility reductions in the early stage of England's COVID-19 epidemic (Health & Place, 2021)
- Talking about automated vehicles: What do levels of automation do? (Technology in Society, 2021)
- Vehicle-to-Grid in the UK fleet market: An analysis of upscaling potential in a changing environment (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021)
- Towards a multiple-scenario approach for walkability assessment: An empirical application in Shenzhen, China (Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021)
- Low-Carbon Mobility in London: A Just Transition? (2020)
- Contrasts in active transport behaviour across four countries: How do they translate into public health benefits? (Preventive Medicine, 2015)
- Geographies of transport: reinventing a field? (Progress in Human Geography, 2015)
- Fear of crime and affective ambiguities in the night-time economy (Urban Studies, 2015)
Media experience
Dr Schwanen has worked with the Dutch and UK media.
Recent media work
- The coronavirus is changing the way Londoners get to work (Al Jazeera, 2020)
- It will take more than a few cycle lanes to make green, pandemic-proof cities (Climate Home News, 2020)
- Electric cars are older than you think (The Times, 2020)
- Brighton, Bristol, York ... city centres signal the end of the road for cars (The Guardian, 2020)
- The five major challenges facing electric vehicles (BBC News, 2019)
Languages
English, Dutch