regional economics

Raúl Ramos is an ERASMUS exchange PhD candidate from Colombia studying at the Catholic University in Chile. He has been with us since November 2021, and will leave in September 2022. Asking what [...]

How to improve the benefits of transport, while limiting its downsides? This question was central to research project U-PASS (Urban Public Administration and ServiceS innovation for Innovative [...]

Since the beginning of 2021, Xiao Yu joined the department of Spatial Economics as researcher within project MOCOLODO (MObility during and after COrona LOckDOwn). MOCOLODO addresses urgent [...]

The goal of international research project SIMETRI  (SustaInable Mobility and Equality in mega-ciTy RegIons) is to build a platform for understanding and predicting urban development in mega-city [...]

  One of the most radical innovations of the last century is the invention of the automobile. Cars have completely changed the way we travel to work or undertake leisure activities. Because [...]

We are proud to introduce to you Jonathan Hall, transport economist, visiting Research Associate at the Department of Spatial Economics. Jonathan, originally from the United States, is also an [...]

Are you paying attention? In many situations research suggests not. For example, when we buy things online, on average we respond more to the purchase price than to the shipping cost. As the [...]

Museum Het Valkhof starts 2022 with an interactive time travel along the Roman Via Appia, one of the oldest highways of the world. REVISITED Via Appia is the result of a longterm [...]

Higher parking prices lead to a reduction in traffic congestion in Amsterdam. This is shown in recent research by Francis Ostermeijer, Hans Koster, Jos van Ommeren and Leonardo Nunes of the Vrije [...]

MObility during and after COrona LOckDOwn (abbreviated as MOCOLODO) is a research project, addressing urgent (policy) questions about mobility in corona times. In particular, MOCOLODO aims to [...]