Publications de Vincent Kaufmann

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Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

Vincent Kaufmann, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Laurie Daffe, Melissa Pang

Action-oriented, transformative, and transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly heralded as promising tools that enable researchers not only to produce new knowledge about a situation, but also to actively engage in tackling it; however, such approaches ...

2022

Associations between Daily Walking and Subclinical Health Markers in a Swiss City

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Idris Guessous, Derek Pierre Christie

Every year, the Health Bus (Bus Santé) enables a representative sample of around 1000 members of the non-institutionalised adult population of Geneva, Switzerland, to undergo a health evaluation including physical measurements, blood tests and questionnair ...

2017

Professional cyclic high mobility: modelling state transitions

Michel Bierlaire, Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent, Alexis Gumy

This paper aims to investigate the combination of exogenous and dynamic endogenous variables in professional high mobility patterns. It is based on a panel dataset of the Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe research project conducted between 2007 and ...

2017

Migration distance from birthplace and its association with relative income and employment share among heterosexual couples in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far par ...

2024

Data Domotopia: introduction to the quantitative survey

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss, Fiona Ines Del Puppo

This paper describes the Data Domotopia a 2300 + respondent self-administered webbased survey. It includes 100 + multi-purpose items about home-making and stillness in a moving world. We suppose that home-making can reveal coping strategies and resilience ...

2023

Happiness and Travel Mode Switching: Findings from a Swiss Public Transportation Experiment

Michel Bierlaire, Vincent Kaufmann, Regina Witter

We present results from a recent experiment conducted in Switzerland that studies the effects of a temporary change in the mode of travel to work on travel happiness and mode switching. The primary aim is to study the dynamics in travel satisfaction rating ...

2012

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

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: ...

2024

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

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 ...

Elsevier BV2025

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

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 ...

2020

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Marc Antoine Messer, Ander Audikana Arriola

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 ...

2016

Understanding the Reconstruction of Personal Networks Through Residential Trajectories

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Gil Viry

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 ...

2020

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Marie-Paule Thomas

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 ...

University of Geneva2018

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

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 ...

Elsevier2016

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

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marie-Paule Thomas

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 ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

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

Anne Mellano, Vincent Kaufmann, Derek Pierre Christie

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 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Soothing house. How housing does mitigate time pressures?

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

For many years, an abundant literature has highlighted the time pressures induced by the more and more intricated and difficult work life balance. As it happens at home, in this paper we explore the hypothesis that housing is a resource to mitigate time pr ...

Elsevier BV2024

Coordinating transport and urban planning: from ideologies to local realities

Vincent Kaufmann, Hanja-Niriana Maksim

In Europe, the idea that coordinating transportation and urban planning is a necessary condition for setting sustainable urban development into motion has spread throughout academic and professional circles. While this concern is not new, the objectives un ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2013

Vers des chantiers furtifs ; Etude préliminaire en matière d'acceptabilité et de perceptions des chantiers en contexte urbain

Vincent Kaufmann, Marc Antoine Messer

Le laboratoire de Sociologie urbaine (LaSUR) à l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) et le collectif Urbz à Genève ont été mandatés conjointement en octobre 2016 par Colas SA, domiciliée à Boulogne-Billancourt (F), afin d’identifier les thémati ...

2017

Future Urban Charging Solutions for Electric Vehicles

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, François Richard Vuille, Vincent Moreau, Dominic Villeneuve

The numbers of electric vehicles (EV) will increase as many countries perceive EVs as a solution to reduce the emissions of transportation and therefore incentivize their adoption. However, the deployment of public charging infrastructure is lagging behind ...

2020

Transitivity and couple relationship satisfaction: Sharing and visiting friends and family make the difference

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

This study examined the relationship between couple relationship satisfaction and the transitivity of ties with family and friends within couples, i.e., the tendency of partners to share friends and family. In this case, transitivity was measured by using ...

2025