Tim Schwanen
@timschwanen.bsky.social
Professor of Transport Geography | Director of @tsuoxford.bsky.social | University of Oxford | Transport, mobilities, cities, technology, climate, inequality | he/him | 333 CO2 ppm
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Tim Schwanen
@timschwanen.bsky.social
· Jun 6
🚐 New paper out! My final paper on community transport with @timschwanen.bsky.social at @tsuoxford.bsky.social is now published open access in Journal of Rural Studies.
What’s it about? See 🧵 below!
What’s it about? See 🧵 below!
New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
Helsinki breaking up its #bikesharing system for the winter. #seasonality of cycling.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Helsinki breaking up its #bikesharing system for the winter. #seasonality of cycling.
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Clara Glachant of the University of Eindhoven said “Our findings suggest that e-cargo bikes may help cultivate a cycling culture both at the household level and the community level. They may reshape ideas of who belongs on the road, who is entitled to space.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility
E-cargo bikes have gained academic and policy interest for their potential to replace car trips in cities. Like bicycles, they require pedaling, produ…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Clara Glachant of the University of Eindhoven said “Our findings suggest that e-cargo bikes may help cultivate a cycling culture both at the household level and the community level. They may reshape ideas of who belongs on the road, who is entitled to space.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The research project, carried out jointly with the universities of Eindhoven, Brighton and Leeds, concluded e-cargo bikes “foster new social norms and cultural identities around family, community and sustainable travel”, with this “everyday practicality normalising cycling as a utility activity”.
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The research project, carried out jointly with the universities of Eindhoven, Brighton and Leeds, concluded e-cargo bikes “foster new social norms and cultural identities around family, community and sustainable travel”, with this “everyday practicality normalising cycling as a utility activity”.
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⭐ Fantastic to see recent work w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social featured as a Research Highlight in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change. In this work, we examine how people across the Pacific Northwest of North America adapt their various everyday activities to cope with the threat of heatwaves.
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
⭐ Fantastic to see recent work w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social featured as a Research Highlight in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change. In this work, we examine how people across the Pacific Northwest of North America adapt their various everyday activities to cope with the threat of heatwaves.
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Ever wondered what it's like to study a PhD/ DPhil at the TSU in Oxford? Some of our current students and @timschwanen.bsky.social discuss. Watch now: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/graduate-res...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
PhD/ DPhil Research at the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University
YouTube video by Transport Studies Unit
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September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ever wondered what it's like to study a PhD/ DPhil at the TSU in Oxford? Some of our current students and @timschwanen.bsky.social discuss. Watch now: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/graduate-res...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Join @henriettalmoore.bsky.social and Arthur Kay for a discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped our cities and infrastructure, but also our economies, health, and freedoms. @timschwanen.bsky.social will join the authors in conversation.
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/roadk...
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/roadk...
Book talk - 'Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic…
In this Oxford Martin School event, clean tech entrepreneur Arthur Kay and global prosperity theorist Professor Dame Henrietta L. To watch live online on…
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Join @henriettalmoore.bsky.social and Arthur Kay for a discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped our cities and infrastructure, but also our economies, health, and freedoms. @timschwanen.bsky.social will join the authors in conversation.
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/roadk...
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/roadk...
Come work with our wonderful colleague Anwesha Gosh in the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in our British Academy-funded project Just Transitions on Indian Streets.
We are looking for two postdocs and two research associates.
We are looking for two postdocs and two research associates.
🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project!
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
Work With Us - National Law School of India University
www.nls.ac.in
July 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Come work with our wonderful colleague Anwesha Gosh in the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in our British Academy-funded project Just Transitions on Indian Streets.
We are looking for two postdocs and two research associates.
We are looking for two postdocs and two research associates.
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🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project!
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
Work With Us - National Law School of India University
www.nls.ac.in
July 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project!
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
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🚨 New project!
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
From the Streets Up: New Project Tackles Urban Inequality in India’s Climate Action
India is facing the twin challenges of climate change and ongoing growth of its urban population. The pressures both challenges create play out first and foremost on city streets. They are places wher...
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk
July 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 New project!
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
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📕 New paper out w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social in Global Environmental Change: "Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analyzing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers"📕
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July 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📕 New paper out w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social in Global Environmental Change: "Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analyzing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers"📕
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🚨 Excited to share the pre-print for the 3rd paper from my DPhil research! 🚨
"The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey"
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"The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey"
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June 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🚨 Excited to share the pre-print for the 3rd paper from my DPhil research! 🚨
"The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey"
🧵thread 1/8
"The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey"
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New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
🚐 New paper out! My final paper on community transport with @timschwanen.bsky.social at @tsuoxford.bsky.social is now published open access in Journal of Rural Studies.
What’s it about? See 🧵 below!
What’s it about? See 🧵 below!
June 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Sadiq Khan / TfL gave the go ahead for a road tunnel without building an equivalent fixed cycle bridge/tunnel in east london … so critical mass took things into their own hands and turned the Silvertown tunnel into a cycle route.
April 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Sadiq Khan / TfL gave the go ahead for a road tunnel without building an equivalent fixed cycle bridge/tunnel in east london … so critical mass took things into their own hands and turned the Silvertown tunnel into a cycle route.
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PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility https://findingspress.org/article/137021-pleasem-a-tool-to-measure-place-based-estimated-advantages-of-shared-electric-mobility
PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility | Published in Findings
By Hannah Budnitz, Mads Hoefer. The benefits of electric car clubs, such as carbon emissions savings, vary by geography and could be greater outside cities where such services are usually located.
findingspress.org
April 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility https://findingspress.org/article/137021-pleasem-a-tool-to-measure-place-based-estimated-advantages-of-shared-electric-mobility
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A statement of solidarity with our colleagues and their students from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam #geoscience #academia #science #earthscience #climatechange #energytransition ⚒️🧪🧬💡🔌
April 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A statement of solidarity with our colleagues and their students from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam #geoscience #academia #science #earthscience #climatechange #energytransition ⚒️🧪🧬💡🔌
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Fantastic start to @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting with first session of the transportation justice conference-within-a-conference. Twelve sessions in all, with @timschwanen.bsky.social, Matt Palm, David Prytherch, Shu Jung Yang, and @alexkarner.bsky.social providing excellent introductions.
March 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fantastic start to @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting with first session of the transportation justice conference-within-a-conference. Twelve sessions in all, with @timschwanen.bsky.social, Matt Palm, David Prytherch, Shu Jung Yang, and @alexkarner.bsky.social providing excellent introductions.
Fantastic blog on the citizens' assembly about transport in Oxfordshire. It was a privilege and a joy to make a very small contribution to this initiative and its results @tsuoxford.bsky.social
Oxfordshire citizens' assembly on the thorny issues of traffic and transport concluded on Sunday.
Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran...
@gchuoxford.bsky.social
Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran...
@gchuoxford.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fantastic blog on the citizens' assembly about transport in Oxfordshire. It was a privilege and a joy to make a very small contribution to this initiative and its results @tsuoxford.bsky.social
Reposted by Tim Schwanen
Oxfordshire citizens' assembly on the thorny issues of traffic and transport concluded on Sunday.
Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran...
@gchuoxford.bsky.social
Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran...
@gchuoxford.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Oxfordshire citizens' assembly on the thorny issues of traffic and transport concluded on Sunday.
Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran...
@gchuoxford.bsky.social
Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran...
@gchuoxford.bsky.social
New @tsuoxford.bsky.social paper in Case Studies on Transport Policy on the socio-spatially uneven use of shared e-scooters in Bristol, the UK city with the largest shared e-scooter trial, led by @hbudnitz.bsky.social with @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social & Helen Morrissey: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
Redirecting
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New @tsuoxford.bsky.social paper in Case Studies on Transport Policy on the socio-spatially uneven use of shared e-scooters in Bristol, the UK city with the largest shared e-scooter trial, led by @hbudnitz.bsky.social with @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social & Helen Morrissey: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
November 25, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
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We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...
Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity
Dr Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University kicks off the TSU Seminar Series for 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...
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🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social.
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Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
January 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social.
🧵Thread below: 1/4
Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
The special issue of Environment & Planning F on 'Geographies of Value and Valuation' is out! It has been a joy and privilege to work on this, and I want to thank the contributors for their wonderful manuscripts and patience. 7/9 pieces OA. More information on: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPF/curr...
December 6, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The special issue of Environment & Planning F on 'Geographies of Value and Valuation' is out! It has been a joy and privilege to work on this, and I want to thank the contributors for their wonderful manuscripts and patience. 7/9 pieces OA. More information on: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPF/curr...
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@njklein.bsky.social, Orly Linovski, Mike Smart & I r researching qualitative research in transportation & r starting a listserv for qual researchers in transport. Hope it can be a forum for community building sharing insights/challenges, exchanging resources, collaboration & more. DM for sign up .
November 29, 2024 at 7:32 PM
@njklein.bsky.social, Orly Linovski, Mike Smart & I r researching qualitative research in transportation & r starting a listserv for qual researchers in transport. Hope it can be a forum for community building sharing insights/challenges, exchanging resources, collaboration & more. DM for sign up .