- Research Associate in Urban Mobility
- Email: hannah.budnitz@ouce.ox.ac.uk
About
Hannah Budnitz joined TSU in October 2019 to join the Park and Charge project.
She completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham, where she was researching the relationship between travel choices, internet accessibility and extreme weather, and the opportunities that trends in improving ICT and increasing space-time flexibility of work and travel offer for more resilient responses to transport disruption. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Hannah worked as a transport planner in the UK for first Arup, then Reading Borough Council. She also holds a BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University and an MSc in City and Regional Planning from Cardiff University.
Current Research
As part of the Park and Charge project, Hannah will be researching the barriers to electric vehicle adoption, particularly where at-home charging is not achievable due to residential / parking layouts and urban form, and investigating the acceptability of a combined parking and charging service as a solution. She is also interested in delivering innovative transport schemes through public-private-academic partnerships such as that formed for the Park and Charge project.
In addition, she is still working on publications exploring the influence of weather on internet activity and assessing the potential of telecommuting and other forms of flexible working patterns to offer sustainable and resilient accessibility.
Outreach
Hannah tweets (@HBudnitz) and writes a monthly blog and sometimes for professional publications, such as The Planner and transportXtra. She is currently Chair of the Transport Planning Network (2016-2020), supported by the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Transport Planning Society, and regularly presents at professional conferences.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Budnitz, H., Tranos, E. and Chapman, L. (2020) Responding to stormy weather: Choosing which journeys to make. Travel Behaviour and Society (special issue on “Changing Travel Behaviour in the Connected Era”), 18: 94-105.
- Budnitz, H., Chapman, L. and Tranos, E. (2018) Better by bus? Insights into public transport travel behaviour during Storm Doris in Reading, UK. Weather, 73(2): 54-60.
Book Chapters
- Budnitz, H., Tranos, E. and Chapman, L. (forthcoming) Transport Modes and Big Data. In, Vickerman, R. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Transportation. .
- Budnitz, H., Chapman, L. and Tranos, E. (2019) Weather, travel behavior, and the influence and potential of ICT to improve resilience. Chapter 3 in, Ben-Elia, E. (ed.) ATPP: The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behaviour Volume 3. Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-816213-2.
- Budnitz, H. (2018) Sustainable Mobility. In, Filho, W.L. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
Selected Conference Presentations
- Budnitz, H. (2018) ‘Exploring the influence of weather on the choice not to travel’. UTSG [Universities’ Transport Study Group] 50th Annual Conference, University College London, 3-5 January 2018. (Came joint second in Smeed Prize).
- Budnitz, H, Chapman, L, Tranos, E. (2019) ‘Telecommuting and Other Trips: the Accessibility of Amenities’. 15th International NECTAR conference, Helsinki, Finland, 5-7 June 2019.
- Budnitz, H, Chapman, L, Tranos, E. (2019) ‘Responding to Stormy Weather: Choosing which Journeys to Make’. UTSG, University of Leeds, 8-10 July 2019.
- Budnitz, H. (2019) ‘Travel Behaviour, Technology, and Weather Resilience… a study in quantitative geography’. RGS-IGB Annual International Conference, London, 28 August, 2019. (Won joint best paper at Future of Quantitative Geography session for PhD and early career researchers.)