Department of Built Environment

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.
Traffic in Mannerheimintie, photo Aalto University/Annamari Tolonen

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

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

Better or less urban mobility?

Miloš Mladenović 2023
More information on our research in the Research database.
Research database

Research group members

Hanna Mattila

Hanna Mattila

Visiting Professor
T213 Built Environment
Marketta Kyttä

Marketta Kyttä

Professori
T213 Built Environment
Eva Purkarthofer

Eva Purkarthofer

Academy Postdoctoral Researcher
T213 Built Environment

Veera Moll

Väitöskirjatutkija

Pilvi Nummi

Postdoctoral Researcher
Oya Duman

Oya Duman

Doctoral Researcher
Roozbeh Mohammadi

Roozbeh Mohammadi

Postdoctoral Researcher
T213 Built Environment

Ze Zhou

Doctoral Researcher
Atiullah Muhammad Saif

Atiullah Muhammad Saif

Doctoral Researcher
T213 Built Environment

Thu Pham

Doctoral Researcher

Our location

Konetekniikka 1, Otakaari 4

Otakaari 4

Mechanical engineering 1, K1

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