PhD conference focused on the interaction between people, city, and transport.

19th – 20th October 2023
Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague & online

Keynote speakers

Jonas De Vos, University College London (UK)
Vojtěch Novotný, Faculty of Transport, CTU Prague (CZ)

The People-City-Transport conference aims at strengthening the interdisciplinary approach to studying urban mobility, including behavioural, sociological, environmental and technical perspectives. The conference will encourage knowledge transfer among the specialised disciplines and contribute to building competencies and capabilities to address current urban mobility issues.
 

event record

 

Book of Extended Abstracts

PROGRAMME

Day 1

9:00

Conference opening, welcome speech by Jakub Vorel, Conference Director

9:30

KEYNOTE SPEECH
SHARED SPACES & SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
Vojtěch Novotný, Czech Technical University in Prague, The Czech Republic

10:00

What Makes Public Transport a Public Space?
Louise Sträuli, Tallinn University, Estonia

10:25

Investigating Soundscape Preferences, Evaluation, and Their Role in Advancing Urban Mobility
Pedram Pourghasem Omandani, Czech Technical University in Prague, The Czech Republic

10:50

Can Theory of Planned Behavior Predict the Effect of Built Environment on Walking Behavior?
Anindita Mandal, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

11:15

Coffee break

11:30

Temporal Displacement and Spatial Unbinding of Commute in the Case of the Brno Metropolitan Area
David Gorný, Masaryk University in Brno, The Czech Republic

11:55

Time-Space Mobility within Prague‘s Suburbs
Jiří-Jakub Zévl, Charles University in Prague, The Czech Republic

12:20

Practices and Technologies of Social Distancing on Milan‘s Public Transport
Federico La Bruna, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy

12:45

Lunch break

13:45

KEYNOTE SPEECH
THE POSITIVE UTILITY OF TRAVEL AND TRAVEL SATISFACTION
Jonas De Vos, University College London, United Kingdom

14:15

Is the Mixed-Use City of Short Distances Equally Shorter for Everybody? Evidence from the Universe of Czech Commuters
Lukáš Makovský, University of Reading, United Kingdom

 14:40

What Are the Shortcomings of Public Facilities under the Concept of Life Circle
Lu Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

15:05

Relation Between Accessibility of Local Amenities and Residential Transport Behaviour in Prague Suburbs
Jan Bittner, Czech Technical University in Prague, The Czech Republic

15:30

Coffee break

15:45

Exploring the Influence of Air Quality on Travel Behavior in European Cities
Szymon Wójcik, University of Lodz, Poland

16:10

The Role of Energy and Transport-Related Built Environment Characteristics in Residential Location Choice
Tanja Scheffler, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

16:35

Conference closing

Day 2

10:00

Mobile workshop (approx. 3 hour)                                                        

 

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