Publications by Vincent Kaufmann

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Urban proximity planning is foreseen as a solution to foster a “sustainable” city, including economic viability, environmental soundness and social inclusivity. This paper focuses on the inclusivity aspects by questioning the adoption of urban proximities: ...

The widespread reliance on cars for daily mobility is often justified by a perceived need for flexibility, allowing travelers to adjust activities, schedules, and trips in response to everyday demands. However, beyond the dominant narrative of automobility ...

As suggested by the conservation of resources theory, in contemporary societies time is considered as a limited resource in the same way as money and energy. In the current paper, a novel daily rhythm approach related to motility is presented, in order to ...

This article investigates the conditions necessary for the emergence of the city as a space for political action. It draws on the example of transport policies in Greater Geneva, where the pursuit of projects with metropolitan overtones was favored to the ...

This paper presents the principal results of this research and is divided into four parts. The first concerns the quantitative analysis of the body of research, which enables the authors to pinpoint those studies which deal specifically with the chosen topic. The second part consists of an analysis of the content of the selected research according to the sequential model used to analyze public policy, i.e. starting with the construction of the problem and ending with an evaluation of the measures introduced

This article examines how residential trajectories influence the spatiality and composition of personal networks. Three mechanisms are considered: the addition of spatially close network members, the selection of spatially distant network members, and the ...

Cette table ronde réunira cinq experts pour débattre des mesures à envisager et à mettre en place en matière de mobilité urbaine dans un contexte de post-pandémie : elle permettra ainsi de proposer une vision de la mobilité après la pandémie de la COVID-19. Quels impacts à long terme, provoqués par la pandémie, laisseront des traces profondes dans le domaine de la mobilité? Les politiques et aménagements provisoires mis en place lors de la pandémie seront-ils maintenus? Ou bien développera-t-on de nouvelles

Today, in many European countries, increasing opposition tends to thwart urban densification projects. To enhance public acceptability of such projects, which are likely to promote sustainable urban development, it is essential to better anticipate urban p ...

In Switzerland, walking accounts for 30% of trips and 44% of single-mode episodes. This is higher than in many countries but does not account for walking distances or durations, which tend to be short according to evidence from North America. This contribution investigates distances and times at which walking peters out, comparing Switzerland, Canada and the USA. We used the 2010 Swiss mobility and transport micro-census, a country-wide representative sample of 62'868 residents who underwent a telephone and

Promoting daily walking is one of the most efficient means of improving urban health, but is rarely recognised as a priority at city level. This contribution investigates the hypothesis that evidence about the importance of walking is having a limited effect on urban policy in Europe, because walking is not defined as a priority in key documents used by policy makers in cities. Detailed secondary analysis was carried out on documents used for the evaluation of Phase V of the WHO Healthy Cities European Netw

In many countries of Western Europe, cities are being built around cars and individual houses. This trend is often considered unavoidable by urban and transportation professionals because it is believed to correspond to what the population desires. But is this really the case? The article answers this question from two angles.First, it presents the results of a poll carried out in four cities in France (Paris / Ile-de-France, Lyon, Strasbourg, Aix-en-Provence) among 5,500 people representative of the popula

In many countries including Switzerland, public policy encourages people to walk for reasons linked to health, the environment, and transport. However, the distribution of walking in the population is not known. People who walk great distances have not been investigated, nor have people who do no walking in public spaces although they drive a motorised vehicle (and who, arguably, may be seen as not conforming to certain public policy objectives). Nothing is known about the proportions or their distribution

Prospective analyses, be they in the field of transport or other areas, are generally developed based on a retrospective of the preceding decades. The trends highlighted are then followed, changed, brought out, accentuated, etc. However, a recent look at m ...

Public benches are a key element for active mobility and can be understood as service stations for pedestrians. They contribute to fostering and facilitating sustainable mobility, but are often underestimated or not included in urban planning and policies. The bench is often attributed to the activity of “sitting”. However, the bench is not the only public urban infrastructure offering this service, and “sitting” is by far not the only functionality of the public bench. Benches are important places for the

Beyond norms and rules this topic aims to understand development perspectives for Mini-EVs in the future. That is approached according to three ways. Firstly, legal frame and evolution perspectives allow to analyses dynamics about electric vehicles development for public institutions. Secondly, electric vehicle and Mini-EV insertion in city shows how these kind of vehicle are take into account in town planning. To finish, the approach by safety and education allows to evaluate the level of information about

Recently, walking has been embraced as a means of encouraging greater health and well-being, community improvement and more sustainable means of travel. Yet despite the significance of the subject there is as yet no integrated treatment of the subject in the social science literature. This handbook brings together a number of the main themes on the study of walking from different disciplines and literatures into a single volume that can be accessed from across the social sciences. It is divided into five ma

Chaque territoire offre un champ des possibles spécifique pour accueillir les projets des acteurs individuels et collectifs. C’est ce qu’on appelle le potentiel d’accueil d’un territoire.

In this article, we propose to examine the diversity of gentrification trajectories taken by six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France Region. To apprehend the dynamics of the different gentrification processes, we investigate the manner in which changes in ...

The City Automated Transport System (CATS) was a collaborative FP7 European project that lasted from 2010 to 2014. Its objective was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of driverless electric vehicles in European cities. This contribution explain ...

We define “frequent walkers” as people who walk over one hour in public space on most days of the week. Because they have successfully undergone mode shift, such pioneers have the potential to initiate change towards sustainable transportation at population level. This project seeks to understand how and why they became frequent walkers, how they integrate walking into their schedules, and what they perceive as facilitators or hindrances. After a quantitative phase, this qualitative phase analyses semi - st

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Planning urban proximities: An empirical analysis of how residential preferences conflict with the urban morphologies and residential practices

Beyond the flexibility narrative of automobility: How regular are car users' mobility patterns?

Dealing with Daily Rhythms: Families’ Strategies to Tackle Chronic Time Pressure

Construire la métropole sans vision métropolitaine : une analyse des politiques de transport à Genève

Research on French transport policy: the state of the art

Understanding the Reconstruction of Personal Networks Through Residential Trajectories

Table ronde: Les bouleversements dans les transports dans le contexte de post-pandémie

Linking spatial characteristics to residential lifestyles. A framework for analysing the hospitality potential of urban and architectural designs

When walking peters out: investigating distance-decay and time-decay for daily walking

Why is promoting daily walking not a priority in European cities? A review and research agenda

Coordination of land-use planning and transportation: how much room to manoeuvre?

Analysing the distribution of walking in the Swiss population

From weak signals to mobility scenarios: A prospective study of France in 2050

Public bench - service station for pedestrians

What mobility for teenagers ? Mini-EV in the European legal context What legal constraint for mini-EV in Europe ?

Walking in Switzerland: urban and not so leisurely

Potentiel d'accueil d'un territoire

The dynamics of multifaceted gentrification. A comparative analysis of the trajectories of six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France region

Pioneering Driverless Electric Vehicles in Europe: The City Automated Transport System (CATS)

Frequent walkers are multimodal in their actions and individualistic in their motivations, according to a qualitative study in two Swiss cities