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Fully-funded PhD position in Fair Transport Lab
The Fair Transport Lab has a fully-funded PhD position in a project that seeks to bridge the gap between big data and transport justice. More details about the position can be found here.
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New article on ethics and autonomous vehicles!
To what extent do professionals rely on ethical reasoning when developing novel technologies with widespread societal implications? Emily Soh, a former doctoral candidate in the Fair Transport Lab, provides answers in her most recent paper: “Value dimensions of autonomous vehicle implementation through the Ethical Delphi’‘. The paper, published in Cities, introduces a topology to categorize value dimensions into four groups: dominant, important but neglected, less prioritized, and less elucidated value dimensions. This makes it possible to identify ethical gaps, which can be used by decision-makers to steer the societal discourse around novel technologies. |
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Karel Martens to speak in Bologna
Karel Martens will be giving a keynote lecture at the Urban@it seminar on Mobilità e città: verso la post-car city to be held on 27 January in Bologna, Italy. Karel will be discussing how the transport justice perspective can be leveraged to build a new transport future.
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Chebe Polycap joins the Fair Transport Lab
Welcome to Chebe Polycap, who joined the Fair Transport Lab this autumn. Chebe holds a Master’s degree in Geography from the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon. In his PhD research, Chebe will study how different road designs enable or hinder walking in urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Omer Dilian wins prestigious grant!
Fair Transport Lab member Omer Dilian has been awarded the Sherman excellence scholarship for interdisciplinary research. In his research, Omer focuses on older adults’ transport mode use and its impact on their mobility and health. He explores the processes involved in cessation behaviours, and their links with age-related mobility deterioration.
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Ya’ara Tsairi wins prestigious grant!
Ya’ara Tsairi has been awarded a prestigious scholarship by the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center for the academic year 2022-2023. In her research, she focuses on employers’ mobility policies, which have sometimes far-reaching consequences for the transport choices, sustainability, as well as social justice. In her research, Ya’ara explores what might be the socially desirable role of employers regarding their employee transport. |
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Lab members join EIT Doctoral Training Network
Wambui Kariuki andYaara Tsairi, PhD candidates in the Fair Transport Lab, joined the prestigious Doctoral Training Network of EIT Urban Mobility. As part of the program, they participated in the 3rd Annual Forum in Barcelona, where they presented their research topics, and participated in Tomorrow.Mobility World congress |
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Fair Transport Lab receives new grant
The Fair Transport Lab has received a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology to explore whether big data on people’s mobility can be used to identify people and population groups at risk of mobility problems. Karel Martens will be leading the project, jointly with co-investigator prof. Avigdor Gal from the Technion’s Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management. |
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Rasha Bowirrat visits Cornell Tech
Rasha Bowirrat, a Master’s student in the Fair Transport Lab, visited the Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech last November. Cornell Tech, a cooperation between Cornell University and the Technion located in New York City, brings together technology, urbanism and entrepreneurship. As part of the visit, Rasha presented her research on walking in cities to the Urban Tech hub members. Rasha’s visit was funded by the generous support of the Azrieli Fellows Program. |
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The dashboard tracks the state of Transport Justice in 49 large metropolitan areas. Employing an explicit sufficiency standard for accessibility, it identifies where transit does and where it does not provide sufficient access to key destinations. The dashboard also provides detailed maps of accessibility insufficiency hotspots and an equity ranking of the analyzed cities. |
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Fair Transport Lab Research on Channel 13!
A new study by Karel Martens and colleagues at the Fair Transport Lab found that at least 10% of Israelis, and especially those without a car, decide to forego everyday activities, like family gatherings or doctor visits, because of the extensive time it would take to reach their destinations. Karel presented some of the research findings on the Channel 13 News program. Segments of the interview can be found here. |
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