Kate Axhausen

Datos Biográficos

ID1081806
NOMBREKate Axhausen
NOMBRESKate
APELLIDOAxhausen
FIRMAAXHAUSEN K
AFILIACIONESETH Zurich
ORCID0000-0003-3331-1318
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS56
TOTAL DE CITAS106
TOTAL COMO AUTOR56
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1991
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Rethinking cost–benefit analysis for transformative cycling policies

    Open AccessLucas Meyer de Freitas, Marco Miotti et al.ARTICLETransport Policy2026

    Transforming urban transport systems toward sustainability requires a critical re-evaluation of the appraisal methods used in policy analysis. While cycling infrastructure offers clear environmental, health, and livability benefits, its economic evaluation through cost–benefit analysis (CBA) remains underdeveloped. This paper presents a CBA of the “E-Bike City” concept in Zurich, which involves a radical reallocation of road space from cars to bi…

  • Place Generator and Place Interpreter

    Open AccessBenjamin Gramsch-Calvo, Kate AxhausenARTICLETransportation2026

    When observing the temporal trajectory of an individual, there is a high probability of them visiting an already-known place due to habit and routine in human mobility behavior. To collect data and understand these routine activities, we propose the Place Generator and the Place Interpreter, a survey adapted from the Name Generator and Name Interpreter methodology of social network studies for travel behavior. In the survey, we asked the particip…

  • The TimeUse+ data set

    Open AccessCaroline Winkler, Adrian Meister et al.ARTICLETransportation2026

    This data paper introduces the TimeUse+ data set and outlines the comprehensive survey methodologies employed in its collection. The TimeUse+ study comprised two online questionnaires and a smartphone-based diary, recording travel, time use, and expenditure data. Participants were instructed to utilize the TimeUse+ application over a 4-week period. The app passively tracked participants’ movements via GPS and enabled them to annotate their trips …

  • The importance of the social environment on leisure destination choice

    Open AccessBenjamin Gramsch-Calvo, Kay W Axhausen et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2025

    Individuals are fond of belonging to a social environment with a similar social background, which can impact the individual’s decision to visit specific venues for leisure activities. Using data from Zurich, we have measured the preference for a social environment in four categories of leisure venues: restaurants, cafes, bars, and nightclubs; the estimation was performed using a mixed multinomial logit model to see how homophily for socioeconomic…

  • Diffurb

    Open AccessFlorian Masse, Benjamin Gramsch-Calvo et al.ARTICLETransportation2025

    DiffUrb is an interdisciplinary research collaboration aiming at describing and understanding how urban differences in terms of diverse population groups are dealt with across five European cities: Geneva, Brussels, Hamburg, Turin, and Zurich. To this end, we developed a three-stage survey to explore and describe experiences of urban dwellers in regard to inclusivity, sense of place, discrimination, mobility behaviors, and social networks. Respon…

  • What influences cycling infrastructure preferences? A stated-preference survey

    Open AccessLucas Meyer de Freitas, Kate AxhausenARTICLETransportation2025

    We examine the difference in preferences among different cyclist groups, being the first to examine differences in cycling infrastructure preferences among s-pedelec, e-bike and conventional bike riders. We also examine how the cycling frequency of individuals shapes these preferences. To do so we develop a stated-preference choice experiment varying cycling infrastructure and car traffic features impacting cycling for both main and neighborhood …

  • Multimodality in the Swiss new normal

    Open AccessDaniel Heimgartner, Kate AxhausenARTICLETransportation2025

    The Swiss New Normal is defined by a substantial increase in telework adoption following the COVID-19 pandemic. Although telework has been extensively studied in the transport literature since the start of the ICT revolution, previous findings may not be applicable to the current context due to evolving economic conditions, personal preferences, and employer perspectives. The net benefits of telework for energy consumption and its climate impact …

  • Exploring the impact of accessibility on leisure social diversity

    Open AccessBenjamin Gramsch-Calvo, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey et al.ARTICLECities2025

    One proposal to improve accessibility is the 15-minute city; the goal is to create a city where all daily necessities are reachable in a 15-minute walk or bike ride from home. However, a potential consequence is the reduction of the role of city centers, which are essential places of interaction among diverse social groups. This study investigates the potential impact that a 15-minute city would have on the co-presence of individuals from differe…

  • Going the extra mile

    Open AccessBenjamin Gramsch-Calvo, Koki Okamura et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2025Referencias: 3

    Most leisure activities are carried out jointly with friends or family; therefore, the decision on where to travel is highly dependent on the spatio-temporal constraints of all members of the group. Using data from Tokyo, Japan, this study is the first to develop a joint destination choice model that explicitly integrates such constraints based on revealed preferences of all members. Such a model allows for the derivation of a new measure to quan…

  • Iterative urban design and transport simulation using Sketch Matsim

    Open AccessTanvi Maheshwari, Pieter Fourie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Design2024

    New transport technologies have historically influenced how cities are shaped, while urban form is known to influence travel behaviour. But this reciprocal relationship is seldom operationalized in practice due to the disciplinary gap between urban design and transport planning. The two are often linked through a ‘predict and provide’ workflow, which is problematic in the context of emerging technologies such as AVs. This paper argues for a more …

  • The e-biking in Switzerland (Ebis) study

    Open AccessSanelma Heinonen, Lucas Meyer de Freitas et al.ARTICLETransportation2024

    This article presents the EBIS (e-Biking in Switzerland) study, including its methodology, the resulting dataset, and an initial descriptive analysis of the population surveyed. The EBIS study is a Switzerland-wide GPS-tracking study with the aim of investigating the scope of carbon savings in the transport sector due to e-biking. Participants consisted of cyclists and e-bikers across the French- and German-speaking regions of Switzerland. In add…

  • Size matters

    Open AccessGiancarlos Parady, Kate AxhausenARTICLETransportation2024

    In this paper we review the academic transportation literature published between 2014 and 2018 to evaluate where the field stands regarding the use and misuse of statistical significance in empirical analysis, with a focus on discrete choice models. Our results show that 39% of studies explained model results exclusively based on the sign of the coefficient, 67% of studies did not distinguish statistical significance from economic, policy or scie…

  • How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland

    Open AccessFlorian Lichtin, E Keith Smith et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024

  • Exploring the influence of social relations and knowledge of the urban environment on leisure travel

    Open AccessBenjamin Gramsch-Calvo, Kay W Axhausen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Most leisure travel is motivated by interactions within one's social network, which influence the choice of activities undertaken in the city. In this paper, we employ a structural regression model to distinguish between the direct effect of social relations on leisure travel—measured as venue variety and activity space—and a complementary effect through the knowledge of the urban environment. The model was applied to a survey conducted in Zurich…

  • Explaining a century of Swiss regional development by deep learning and SHAP values

    Open AccessYouxi Lai, Wenzhe Sun et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2023

    We use a graph convolutional neural network (GCN) for regional development prediction with population, railway network density, and road network density of each municipality as development indicators. By structuring the long-term time series data from 2833 municipalities in Switzerland during the years 1910–2000 as graphs over time, the GCN model interprets the indicators as node features and produces an acceptable prediction accuracy on their fu…

  • The Mobis dataset

    Open AccessJoseph Molloy, Alberto Castro et al.ARTICLETransportation2023

    This article presents the MOBIS dataset and underlying survey methods used in its collection. The MOBIS study was a nation-wide randomised controlled trial (RCT) of transport pricing in Switzerland, utilising a combination of postal recruitment, online surveys, and GPS tracking. 21,571 persons completed the first online survey, and 3680 persons completed 8 weeks of GPS tracking. Many continued tracking for over a year after the study was complete…

  • The E-Bike City as a radical shift toward zero-emission transport

    Open AccessLukas Ballo, Lucas Meyer de Freitas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

    This think piece discusses current barriers to the rapid decarbonization of transport and ways to overcome them. Policymakers face a set of contradictory goals, leading them to ponder only incremental measures: The need to reduce carbon emissions conflicts with accessibility improvements and the resulting induced traffic. At the same time, the prevention of urban sprawl as a means of promoting sustainable mobility is fundamentally thwarted by tec…

  • Do we have enough recreational spaces during pandemics? An answer based on the analysis of individual mobility patterns in Switzerland

    Open AccessMarcelo Galleguillos-Torres, Galleguillos-Torres Marcelo et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022

    Densification of cities threatens the provision of public open space for people living in and around cities. The increasing evidence of the many benefits of recreational walking for physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an urgent need for fostering the availability of public open space. In this context, urban planners need information to anticipate recreational needs and propose long-term, resilient solutions tha…

  • The role of unpaid domestic work in explaining the gender gap in the (monetary) value of leisure

    Open AccessSimona Jokubauskaite, Reinhard Hössinger et al.ARTICLETransportation2022

    The value of travel time savings (VTTS) representing the willingness to pay to reduce travel time, consists of two components: the value of liberating time [equal to the value of leisure (VoL)] and the value of time assigned to travel (VTAT), representing the travel conditions of a trip. Their relative values indicate which dimension to emphasize when investing in transport: speed or comfort. In this paper, we formulate and estimate a framework a…

  • Inertia effects of past behavior in commuting modal shift behavior

    Open AccessKun Gao, Minhua Shao et al.ARTICLETransportation2022

  • Intra-destination travel behavior of alpine tourists

    Open AccessBartosz Bursa, Markus Mailer et al.ARTICLETransportation2022

    In the face of a continuous increase in the number of tourists in the Alps, the associated traffic volumes, and the resulting negative externalities, there is an urgent need to design policies capable of managing tourist traffic efficiently and to invest in transport systems and infrastructure wisely, given the limited financial, spatial and environmental resources. Unfortunately, while there is a considerable research interest in long-distance t…

  • Trip Purpose Imputation Using GPS Trajectories with Machine Learning

    Open AccessQinggang Gao, Joseph Molloy et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2021

    We studied trip purpose imputation using data mining and machine learning techniques based on a dataset of GPS-based trajectories gathered in Switzerland. With a large number of labeled activities in eight categories, we explored location information using hierarchical clustering and achieved a classification accuracy of 86.7% using a random forest approach as a baseline. The contribution of this study is summarized below. Firstly, using informat…

  • How did micro-mobility change in response to Covid-19 pandemic? A case study based on spatial-temporal-semantic analytics

    Open AccessAoyong Li, Pengxiang Zhao et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2021

    Cities worldwide adopted lockdown policies in response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), significantly influencing people's travel behavior. In particular, micro-mobility, an emerging mode of urban transport, is profoundly shaped by this crisis. However, there is limited research devoted to understanding the rapidly evolving trip patterns of micro-mobility in response to COVID-19. To fill this gap, we analyze the changes in …

  • The German value of time and value of reliability study

    Open AccessIlka Dubernet, Kate AxhausenARTICLETransportation2020

    In 2012 Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) initiated several projects in preparation of the new Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (BVWP) 2030. This included an update of the general methodology and in particular of its cost–benefit analysis which is used to evaluate the effects of hundreds of German infrastructure projects under study. As part of the work the first official values of time (VOT) and value…

  • A joint time-assignment and expenditure-allocation model

    Open AccessReinhard Hössinger, Florian Aschauer et al.ARTICLETransportation2020

    Based on a time-use model with a sound theoretical basis and carefully collected data for Austria, the value of leisure (VoL) for different population segments has been estimated. Through the combination of these results with mode-specific values of travel time savings from a related study based on the same data, the first mode-specific values of time assigned to travel (VTAT) were calculated. Data was collected using a Mobility-Activity-Expendit…