Die Verkehrsentwicklung der letzten Jahrzehnte ist in Deutschland vor allem durch eine Zunahme der zurückgelegten Distanzen und eine Zunahme des Pkw-, Lkw- und Flugverkehrs gekennzeichnet. Die damit verbundenen negativen Folgen sind seit mindestens 30 Jahren Anlass für Planungskonzepte zur...

Bei einem Aktionsraum handelt es sich um einen durch individuelles Handeln realisierten Raum. Er gilt als die Summe oder auch die räumliche Verteilung der von einer Person im Alltag aufgesuchte Orte. Aktionsraumforschung beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse, Beschreibung und Erklärung...

This position paper was compiled by the members of the Working Group on "Multilocal living and spatial development" at the Academy for Territorial Development (ARL). In this position paper, the "Multilocal living and spatial development" Working Group at the Academy for Territorial Development...

Today, spatial research and planning is confronted with complex frame conditions which have substantially changed in the past decades. Thus, a comprehensive social change is stated, giving new room for individual development, but on the other hand making new decisions necessary (cue:...

Borrowing from concepts of socio-environmental epidemiology and psychology, we conceived self-rated health as a function of multiple physical and psychosocial stressors and resources at the residential neighbourhood and individual level. In this model of multiple stressors, objective exposure to...

The debate on residential self-selection (RSS) in the travel field seeks to answer the question of whether and to what extent spatial differences in traveling may be explained in spatial terms or to what extent, rather, they are explained by the unequal spatial distribution of people’s social...

In recent years, a growing body of research has been emerging that focuses on changes in travel behaviour over an individual’s life course. It has been labelled the ‘mobility biographies approach’ and highlights changes in travelling induced by key events and experiences in an...

Noise action planning according to the EU Environmental Noise Directive aims to improve people's health. Although health inequalities exist, the Directive does not address social inequalities in residential exposure to road traffic noise. In multivariate regression analyses based on two urban...

There is a lot of research on spatial differences in travel behaviour, specifically on travel distances. This research suggests that the distances travelled by the inhabitants of municipalities with lower population and neighbourhoods with lower density and less mixed land use are longer than...