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Mar 2023 • Keynote Lecture • Platos Conference on Transport Modeling and Wellbeing
Karel Martens at Platos Conference
AbstractKarel Martens gave a keynote lecture at the Platos Conference on Transport Modeling and Wellbeing, held on 29 March 2023 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In his talk Transport Modeling for an Inclusive Society, Karel underscored that transport modeling is all but value-neutral and showed how transport modelers can use their existing tools to design and assess more inclusive
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Nov 2022 • Visit • Urban Tech Hub @ Cornell Tech
Rasha Bowirrat visits Cornell Tech
AbstractRasha Bowirrat, a Master’s student in the Fair Transport Lab, visited the Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech last November. Cornell Tech, a cooperation between Cornell University and the Technion located in New York City, brings together technology, urbanism and entrepreneurship. As part of the visit, Rasha presented her research on walking in
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Nov 2022 • Doctoral Training Network • EIT Urban Mobility
Lab members join EIT Doctoral Training Network
AbstractWambui Kariuki and Yaara Tsairi, PhD candidates in the Fair Transport Lab, joined the prestigious Doctoral Training Network of EIT Urban Mobility. As part of the program, they participated in the 3rd Annual Forum in Barcelona, where they presented their research topics, and participated in Tomorrow.Mobility World congress
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21 Apr 2022 • Master Class • Center of Excellence in Transport and Logistics at the University of Rwanda
Master Class on Transport Justice in Kigali, Rwanda
AbstractOn 21 April 2022, Karel Martens gave a Master Class on Transport Justice in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The event was organized by dr. Alphonse Nkurunziza from the Center of Excellence in Transport and Logistics at the University of Rwanda, as part of an ongoing partnership funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. The Master Class was highly successful
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2 Dec 2021 • Presentation • 2021 Annual POLIS Conference
Social inclusion - A transport justice perspective
AbstractOn 1 December 2021, Karel Martens gave the closing keynote lecture at the Annual Polis Conference, held in Gothenburg, Sweden. In his talk, he called on the audience to adopt a transport justice perspective on social
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28 Nov 2021 • Video Presentation • the Environmental Justice in Transportation Conference
Karel Martens at the Environmental Justice in Transportation Conference
AbstractOn 28 November 2021, Karel Martens gave a lecture at the Environmental Justice in Transportation Conference, organized by Transport Today & Tomorrow in conjunction with the Kinneret Academic College. Martens discussed how transport justice can contribute to equality of opportunity and what that may mean for transport investment in the North of Israel.
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13 Oct 2021 • Video Presentation • Research to Practice Transit Symposium, October 12–14, 2021
From disparity to insufficiency: Promoting transit through equity analyses
AbstractOn 13 October 2021, Karel Martens gave a lecture in the online Research to Practice Transit Symposium organized by the University of Florida Transportation Institute. In his presentation, Martens challenges the typical focus of equity analysis in the field of transport. Rather analyzing disparities between population groups, he argues that equity analyses should assess
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11 Aug 2021 • Video Presentation
Matan Singer at WSTLUR 2021 in Portland, Oregon!
AbstractMatan Singer, Aly Kaufman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fair Transport Lab, presented at the 2021 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research. The project, funded by the Israel Science Foundation, analyzed why some public transport systems serve a region’s population better than others. Focusing on 49 regions in the USA, he found that land use features (density
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26 Jan 2021 • Presentation
Social Identity and Cycling among Women: The Case of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
AbstractIn his presentation held on 26.1.2021, Avi Parsha, an Urban and Regional Planning master student and a Lab member, discussed his findings regarding social identity effects on perception of cycling as a mode of transport among women from different income levels. Avi found that as cycling for transport is highly-associated with privileged social groups and not as a practice
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19 Nov 2020 • Discussion Paper • International Transport Forum
A people-centred approach to accessibility
AbstractThis paper discusses two variants of the accessibility paradigm for transport planning. The extensive paradigm aims to radically overhaul transport planning to incorporate issues of environmental quality, urban sprawl, safety and health. Its adoption is unlikely in the medium term and raises questions about the role of the transport planner. The limited paradigm calls
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