Otakaari 4
Mechanical engineering 1, K1
Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering
Urban realities are becoming increasingly dynamic, complex and fragmented while demands for their livability, sustainability, competitiveness, and attractiveness increase. Our research connects spatial planning and transportation engineering for developing new scientific knowledge needed in systemic understanding, problem-solving, and integrative planning and policy-making beyond sectoral boundaries, aimed at achieving human-centered living environments.
The sustainability of our modern living environments is being challenged by rapid processes of urbanisation and climate change. In addition to contributing to the advances in digitalisation and automation through various smart city initiatives, shaping our futures requires deeper understanding of human behavior and values, urban systems dynamics, citizen participation practices, and inter-sectoral institutional collaboration.
Research overview
Deeply rooted in understanding the complexities of important societal challenges reflected in our everyday environments, this research group has both practice- and science-based approach to engineering as collaborative development. To account for a wicked challenges of our futures, this group has developed a wide spectrum of critical research topics in the area of sustainable built environment and systems design.
Our research themes
Understanding the human multidimensionality and diversity is one of the central focus areas, relying upon a range of economic, psychological and sociological approaches. Understanding human needs for living and moving around urban environments is accompanied with the development of advanced data collection and analysis methods. The development of place- and activity-based data collection and analysis methods relies strongly on advances in digitalisation and automation.
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This research area focuses on complexities in planning and managing urban environments, stemming both from complexities of urban environments as well as from procedural and institutional complexities themselves. Development of concepts, methods, and computer models includes a range of spatial and temporal scales, from regional and long-term envisioning to detailed, neighbourhood, levels. Framing of decision-making methods and processes is done through a simultaneous re-evaluation of governing mechanisms, focus on citizen participation, and a deep understanding of communicative dynamics and activities.
In this research area, the Group is affiliated with the research group Spatial Policy, Politics and Planning, led by professor Sami Moisio at University of Helsinki Department of Geosciences and Geography.
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Based on a deep understanding of technology and technological transition processes, this research area focuses on development of a range of strategies and services, both in the domain of housing and urban structure as well as in mobility. Grounded in human-centered approach, this development includes understanding of liveability requirements, carbon neutrality, and mobility systems dynamics. The resulting systems contribute to steering emerging technological roadmaps focused on such trends as sharing, automation, servitization, and connectivity, as well as steering of national and international policies and regulation.
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Latest publications
Rebuilding a place to call home : Sharing knowledge for the recovery of Ukraine
Oleksandr Anisimov, Pavlo Fedoriv, Oleksandra Tkachenko, Julie Lawson, Edwin Buitelaar
2023
Linkage Problem in Location Optimization of Dedicated Bus Lanes on a Network
Murat Bayrak, S. Ilgin Guler
2023
Transportation Research Record
3D visualisations for communicative urban and landscape planning: What systematic mapping of academic literature can tell us of their potential?
Salla Eilola, Kaisa Jaalama, Petri Kangassalo, Pilvi Nummi, Aija Staffans, Nora Fagerholm
2023
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
What is the potential of hybrid cordon pricing policy for reducing and shifting car usage in cities?
Draženko Glavić, Marina Milenkovic, Miloš Mladenović, Ioannis Politis, Jelica Komarica
2023
Transportation Research Procedia
Envisioning the driverless city using backcasting and Q-methodology
Esther González-González, Rubén Cordera, Dominic Stead, Soledad Nogués
2023
Cities
Hiiliviisas kaupunkivihreä ilmastoratkaisuksi: Politiikkasuosituksia kaupungeille
Ranja Hautamäki, Leena Järvi, Mari Ariluoma, Antti Kinnunen, Liisa Kulmala, Jussi Lampinen, Tiina Merikoski, Outi Tahvonen
2023
Täsmäratkaisuja kestävään tulevaisuuteen : suosituksia planetaarisen hyvinvoinnin tukemiseen poliittisessa ohjelmatyössä
Jonne Hytönen, Stefan Baumeister, Sami El Geneidy, Hannu L. T. Heikkinen, Aleksi Heinilä, Tarmo Ketola, Teea Kortetmäki, Viivi Kuusiaho, Niina Mykrä, Marileena Mäkelä, Tiina Onkila, Ari Paloviita, Maria Pecoraro, Katri Savolainen, Jonne Silonsaari, Outi Uusitalo
2023
Wisdom Letters
The temporality of on-street parking – exploring the role of land-use mix and change on parking dynamics
Anthony Kimpton, Dominic Stead, Jonathan Corcoran
2023
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Governing Resilience Planning : Organizational Structures, Institutional Rules, and Fiscal Incentives in Guangzhou
Meng Meng, Marcin Dąbrowski, Dominic Stead
2023
Land
Better or less urban mobility?
Miloš Mladenović
2023
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