Kobe Boussauw
kobeboussauw.bsky.social
Kobe Boussauw
@kobeboussauw.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Mobility - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Engineering 36%
Education 22%

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It was a pleasure to be part of the PhD jury of the new doctor @jaimesierra.bsky.social on car dependence in Lombardy, at Politecnico di Milano - with Paola Pucci, Biagio Ciuffo, Louison Duboz, @giuliomattioli.bsky.social and Paolo Beria. No cars or planes involved, just trains and bicycles.

Happy to announce our new Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT) project on mobility planning implications for travel and activity choice of youth in urban and peri-urban areas, in Belgium, UK, Austria and Slovenia - funded by Research Foundation Flanders - FWO dutpartnership.eu/projects/t-p...

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Met een pennentrek liquideert minister Hilde Crevits het stadsvernieuwingsbeleid van de Vlaamse overheid www.vlaanderen.be/stedenbeleid.... Stijn Oosterlynck legt uit waarom deze bescheiden hefboom zoveel impact heeft, en waarom het afschaffen ervan zo ongelukkig is. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Stadsvernieuwing in Vlaanderen
Stadsvernieuwingsprojecten zijn hefboomprojecten voor een geïntegreerde stadsontwikkeling. Dit zowel in functie van economische, ecologische als sociale meerwaarde. Ze verhogen de aantrekkelijkheid, d...
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Call for session proposals at the BeNeLux Geography Conference, 8-10 April 2026 in Leuven - deadline: 15 October 2025! www.benelux-geo.eu

New publication, in which we demonstrate that three quarters of the effects in cost-benefit analyses of transport projects are strictly economic, which is at odds with political discourses on sustainability and social justice benefits of transport interventions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest publication on the geography of fare-free public transport, summarising findings from our recently completed project on the topic, in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Urban Transport www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... (text also here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...).

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Call for Papers: Carin-PT Conference ‘Towards inclusive public transport in urban regions’ (Brussels, February 6-7, 2025) - submit your abstract on research on public transport in relation to justice, equity, and fairness by October 18th, 2024, here: carinpt.eu/conference/

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🚊🚍"To pay or not to pay – The role of fares in public transport", a very insightful symposium which marked the end of the LiFT project, a bilateral project funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO.
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@fnr.lu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

Really satisfied with the 2025 congress of AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) in Istanbul, with fascinating presentations by my colleagues - my own contribution abstract on 'Urban planning: how to introduce the discipline' here: congress.aesop-planning.eu/event/1/cont...

Congratulations to Arne De Backer, Master Stedenbouw en Ruimtelijke Planning (VUB), who received his Fayat scholarship www.vlaanderen.be/onderwijs-en... from Flanders' minister-president, which will allow him to continue his studies at the National University of Singapore!

In Leuven gaat het verkeerscirculatieplan stilzwijgend op de schop. Niet de weg naar een meer leefbare en duurzame stad, vinden wij. Dank @lauwersdirk.bsky.social om dit op de agenda te zetten. www.demorgen.be/meningen/leu...

Starring at the BIVEC Transport Research Days 2025 www.uni.lu/fstm-en/conf...: Marjolein Hantson on captive users of demand-responsive transit, Simon Bothof on the 'best' versus the 'preferred' alternative in cost-benefit analysis, and Ward Van Hemeledonck on media discourses on micromobility.

Mijn gastles bij de zesdejaars van Stamina Brugge www.stamina.be in het kader van VUB PACT School Tour www.vub.be/nl/over-de-v..., over stedenbouw als wapen van de bezetting in Palestina.

Today Merlin Gillard successfully defended his PhD on the links between fare (free) policy, governance and surveillance of public transport, employing discourse analysis and ethnographic methods in cases in Luxembourg and Cuba. Congratulations to the new doctor!

Een enthousiast publiek afgelopen zaterdag op de Stoomcursus Ruimtelijke Planning van VRP, het uitgelezen forum om onze Master STeR* www.vub.be/nl/studeren-... en mijn boek www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/owl-press/sh... nog even in de schijnwerpers te plaatsen.

Dr. Clemens de Olde leverde dit jaar opnieuw een gesmaakte bijdrage aan onze opleiding STeR*, in zijn gastles over de afbakening van de stedelijke gebieden en hoe stad-rand-tegenstellingen zich uiten in intergemeentelijke samenwerking.