Onderzoek naar fietsgebruik en interesse in fietsalternatieven (In Dutch only)
28/10/2011
Graag willen we een beroep doen op uw medewerking aan dit onderzoek over fietsgebruik en de interesse in fietsalternatieven. Wij willen graag weten op welke manier u uw fiets gebruikt en wat u denkt over verschillende andere fietsalternatieven. De opkomst van fietsalternatieven zoals bijvoorbeeld de elektrische fiets vormt namelijk uitdagingen voor de toekomst.
De vragenlijst bestaat uit twee delen: een deel rond fietsalternatieven en een algemeen deel.
- Enquête voor studenten hoger onderwijs (hogeschool, universiteit)
- Enquête voor werkenden
- Enquête voor gepensioneerden
Dit onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd in het kader van het opleidingsonderdeel Transport, Logistiek en Ruimte aan de Vakgroep Geografie van de Universiteit Gent. Voor meer informatie over dit onderzoek kan u terecht bij (Dr. Veronique Van Acker (09/264.96.80 tijdens de kantooruren).
Area Prize 2010
March 2011
Area Prize 2010 awarded to David Bassens, Ben Derudder, and Frank Witlox for the article "Searching for the Mecca of
finance: Islamic financial services and the world city network".
Full reference: Bassens, D., Derudder, B. & F. Witlox (2009) "Searching for the Mecca of finance: Islamic financial services and the world city network". Area, Vol. 42 (1), 35-46.
» Read the official certificate for David's price
Welcome to the website of the Social and Economic Geography research group at the Department of Geography of Ghent University.
Our research group focuses on three main clusters, i.e. (i) transport geography, transport economics and logistics,
(ii) urban geography, urban policy and world city-formation, and (iii) land use, agro-environment and geography of enterprise.
Our research on transport geography, transport economics and logistics mainly focuses on issues of sustainable mobility and congestion problems, activity patterns, modal choice and multimodal transport, transport policy, network analysis, time-space analysis, spatial logistics and city logistics.
Our research on urban geography, urban policy and world city-formation focuses on present-day evolutions
in the Flemish urban system (commuting, migration and housing choice patterns), urban policy
(city-monitoring and urban economics), and the formation of a world city network through the
internationalization of transport and production networks.
Our research on land use, agro-environment and geography of enterprise primarily deals with the location analysis of private and public companies, the relationship between transport and production, housing studies, and land use modelling.
News
19 January 2012
A "Geography Directions" blog post entitled '"Goldman Sachs rules the world", Islam-style?' by David Bassens
» Click here to see to read the article.
October 2011
Jonas De Vos was awarded the Transport & Mobility Leuven Thesis Prize 2011.
» Click here to see the certificate in detail.
9 June 2011
Sara Verlinde was presented the Outstanding Paper Award by the Institue for City Logistics during the 7th International Conference on City Logistics (7-9 June 2011, Mallorca, Spain for the article "How to consolidate urban flows of goods without setting up an urban consolidation centre?" (Auteurs: Sara Verlinde, Cathy Macharis & Frank Witlox).
» Click here to see the certificate in detail.
25 May 2011
From left to right: Dr. Eric Cornelis (FUNDP), Prof. em. Alain Bonnafous (Université Lumière-Lyon2), Prof. Frank Witlox (UGent, BIVEC president), Prof. Philippe Toint (FUNDP) (click on the photo to enlarge)
» Click here for more information about the Transport Research Day.
20 May 2011
On the 20th of May, the shared second prize by PlanDag 2011 (Stichting Planologische Discussiedagen) was awarded to the paper "Suburb en mobiliteit: Zijn alle 'stedelijke gebieden' even stedelijk?" by Kobe Boussauw and Frank Witlox.
» Click here for a copy of the paper (in Dutch).
» Click here to see the certificate in detail.