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Dr Tim Schwanen

• Research Fellow in Transport and Geography
• Email: tim.schwanen@ouce.ox.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)1865 285503

• Academic Profile
• Current Research
• Publications

Academic Profile

Tim Schwanen is a Research Fellow at the Transport Studies Unit which is part of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Human Geography and Planning of Utrecht University, The Netherlands in 2003 (cum laude), after which he worked as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in urban geography at the same university. He joined the TSU in March 2009. Tim currently serves on the editorial advisory board of the journals Transportation and Journal of Transport Geography.

Current Research

Tim's research can be positioned at the intersection of urban, transport, cultural, political and economic geography. It is international in outlook, interdisciplinary in scope and both theoretically oriented and empirical in nature. Key research interests include:

• Geographies of mobility.
• The consequences of climate change for transportation.
• The geography of ageing and old age.
• The geography of wellbeing.
• The use of technology, and especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), in everyday life.
• The geography of work/life balance and the gender division of household labour.
• The geography of urban nightlife, and of surveillance in public spaces.
• The modelling of space-time accessibility.
• Research methodologies.
• The conceptualization of time and space in geography and the social sciences.

Publications

Journal Articles (since 2009)

• McCormack, D.P. and Schwanen, T. (2011) The space - times of decision making. Environment and Planning A, 43(12): 2801-2818.
• Banister, D., Anderton, K., Bonilla, D., Givoni M. and Schwanen T. (2011) Transportation and the environment. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 36: 247-270.
• Alexander, B., Hubers, C., Schwanen, T., Dijst, M. and Ettema, D. (2011) Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing measurement instruments to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38(4): 678-705.
• Delafontaine, M., Neutens, T., Schwanen, T. and Van de Weghe, N. (2011) The impact of opening hours on the equity of individual space-time accessibility. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35(4): 276-288.
• Hubers, C., Schwanen, T. and Dijst, M. (2011) Coordinating everyday life in the Netherlands: A holistic quantitative approach to the analysis of ICT-related and other work-life balance strategies. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 93(1): 57-80.
• Neutens, T., Schwanen, T. and Witlox, F. (2011) The prism of everyday life: towards a new research agenda for time geography. Transport Reviews, 31(1): 25-47.
• Schwanen, T., Banister, D. and Anable, J. (2011) Scientific research about climate change mitigation in transport: a critical review. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Planning, 45(10): 993-1006.
• Schwanen, T. and Ziegler, F. (2011) Wellbeing, independence and mobility: an introduction. Ageing and Society, 31(5): 719-733.
• Ziegler, F. and Schwanen, T. (2011) 'I like to go out to be energised by different people': an exploratory analysis of mobility and wellbeing in later life. Ageing and Society, 31(5): 758-781.
• Neutens, T., Versichele, M. and Schwanen, T. (2010) Arranging place and time: a GIS toolkit to assess individual and joint accessibility to urban opportunities. Applied Geography, 30(4): 561-575.
• Neutens, T., Schwanen, T., and Miller, H. (2010) Dealing with preferences, privileges and timing in opportunities for joint activity participation. Geographical Analysis, 42(3): 245-266.
• Neutens, T., Schwanen, T., Witlox, F. and De Maeyer, P. (2010) Equity in service delivery: a comparison of different accessibility measures. Environment and Planning, A 42(7): 1613-1635.
• Neutens, T., Schwanen, T., Witlox, F. and De Maeyer, P. (2010) Evaluating the temporal organization of public service provision using space-time accessibility analysis. Urban Geography, 31(8): 1039-1064.
• Schwanen, T. and Páez, A. (2010) The mobility of older people - an introduction. Journal of Transport Geography, 18(5): 591-595.
• Tillema, T., Dijst, M. and Schwanen, T. (2010) Decisions concerning communication modes and the influence of travel time: a situational approach. Environment and Planning, A, 42(9): 2058-2077.
• Tillema, T., Dijst, M. and Schwanen, T. (2010) Face-to-face and electronic communications in maintaining social networks: the influence of geographical and relational distance and of information content. New Media and Society, 12(6): 965-983.
• Kwan, M.-P., and Schwanen, T. (2009) Critical quantitative geographies. Environment and Planning, A, 41(2): 261-264.
• Kwan, M.-P., and Schwanen, T. (2009) Quantitative Revolution 2: the critical (re)turn. The Professional Geographer, 61(3): 283-291.
• Limtanakool, N., Schwanen, T., and Dijst, M. (2009) Developments in the Dutch urban system on the basis of flows. Regional Studies, 43(2): 176-196.
• Schwanen, T. and Ettema, D. (2009) Coping with unreliable transportation when collecting children: examining parents' behavior with cumulative prospect theory. Transportation Research A, 43(5): 511-525.
• Schwanen, T. and Kwan, M.-P. (2009) "Doing" critical geographies with numbers. The Professional Geographer, 61(4): 459-464.
• Tillema, T., Schwanen, T. and Dijst, M. (2009) Communicating something confidential while travelling by train: the use of a telephone conversation versus silent modes. Transportation, 36(5): 541-564.

Co-edited Special Issues (since 2009)

• McCormack, D., Schwanen, T. (eds.) (2011) The Space-Times of Decision-Making. Environment and Planning A, 43(12).
• Schwanen, T. and Ziegler, F. (eds.) (2011) Wellbeing, Independence and Mobility. Ageing and Society, 31(5).
• Schwanen, T., Páez, A. (eds.) (2010) The Mobility of Older People. Journal of Transport Geography, 18(5).
• Dijst, M., Kwan, M.-P., and Schwanen, T. (eds.) (2009) E-shopping and travel-activity behavior. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 36(3).
• Kwan, M.-P., and Schwanen, T. (eds.) (2009) Critical quantitative geographies 1: beyond the critical / analytical binarism. The Professional Geographer, 61(3).
• Kwan, M.-P., and Schwanen, T. (eds.) (2009) Critical quantitative geographies. Environment and Planning, A, 41(2).
• Schwanen, T., and Kwan, M.-P. (eds.) (2009) Critical quantitative geographies 2: practical engagements. The Professional Geographer, 61(4).

Book Chapters (since 2009)

• Schwanen, T. (2011) Car use and gender: the case of dual-earner families in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In, Lucas, K., Blumenberg, E. and Weinberger, E. (eds.) Auto Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours. Emerald, Bingley, pp. 151-171.
• Schwanen, T. and Lucas, K. (2011) Understanding auto motives. In, Lucas, K., Blumenberg, E. and Weinberger, E. (eds.) Auto Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours. Emerald, Bingley, pp. 3-38.
• Schwanen, T. (2009) Spatial analysis, Critical. In, Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 10. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 302--307.
• Schwanen, T. (2009) Time-space diaries. In, Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 11. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 294--300.