As a part of the TRANSFER project, I study in my PhD project how travellers get to (access) and from (egress) public transport services and make transfers during public transport trips. The aim is to look at how public transport journeys can be as seamless as possible.
Academic interests
- Transportation and mobility
- Urban development
- Environment and climate change
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Quantitative methods
Courses taught
Background
- Master's degree in human geography, University of Oslo, 2017
- Bachelor's degree in human geography, University of Oslo, 2015
- Bachelor's degree in journalism, University college of Volda, 2010
Tags:
Human Geography
Publications
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Böcker, Lars; Priya Uteng, Tanu; Throndsen, Torstein S. & Anderson, Ellinor Ragnhild
(2020).
Bike sharing use in conjunction to public transport: Exploring spatiotemporal, age and gender dimensions in Oslo, Norway.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
ISSN 0965-8564.
138(August 2020),
p. 389–401.
doi:
10.1016/j.tra.2020.06.009.
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Bike sharing could provide a key role in a transition towards a less car dependent and more sustainable, healthy and socially inclusive urban transport future. This paper investigates two important prerequisites for bike sharing to fulfil these premises: Does it synergise rather than compete with current alternatives to car-based urban mobility; and is it inclusively accessible across population and spatial segments? Drawing on complete 2016–2017 trip records of the Oslo (Norway) bike sharing system, this paper analyses the potential use of bike sharing for accessing, egressing and interchanging public transport and explores its age and gender dimensions. Bike sharing ridership is substantially higher on routes that either start or end with metro/rail connectivity, whilst controlling for other factors, such as route distance, elevation, urban form, time of day and bike dock capacities. However, our results also reveal that bike sharing – both as a stand-alone system and in conjunction with public transport – is less accessible to, suited to, and used by women and older age groups. Especially gender biases appear profound, multifaceted, and intersected by spatial inequalities favouring central male-dominated employment areas. These findings are discussed to derive policy and design directions regarding multimodal integration, dock expansion, rental limitations, and the introduction of e-bikes, to improve the performance, multimodal integration, gender equality and overall socio-spatial inclusiveness of bike sharing.
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Priya Uteng, Tanu; Espegren, Hans Martin; Throndsen, Torstein S. & Böcker, Lars
(2020).
The gendered dimension of multimodality: Exploring the bike-sharing scheme of Oslo.
In Priya Uteng, Tanu; Christensen, Hilda Rømer & Levin, Lena (Ed.),
Gendering Smart Mobilities.
Routledge.
ISSN 9781138608276.
p. 162–187.
doi:
10.4324/9780429466601-10.
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Investigating the effects of existing transport solutions and practices holds the potential for designing targeted interventions to give a push in the right ‘multimodal’ direction. This chapter builds on the case of a bike sharing-scheme in Oslo, Norway to understand how the gendered variations of the following factors lead to active (or passive) sustainable travel behaviour: (1) key transport decisions; (2) adoption and retention challenges; (3) usage patterns; and (4) infrastructural needs. Social practice theory, shared ‘smart’ mobilities, and gendered patterns of cycling have been used to develop a conceptual model to highlight how transport decisions and schemes may trigger new sets of mobility practices, and how these can be steered in the future for sustainable mobility practices.
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Throndsen, Torstein S.; Böcker, Lars & Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl
(2019).
Utstilling med diverse plakater om bl.a. kollektivtransport, elsykkel insentiver, sykkeldeling og bildeling
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Lunke, Erik Bjørnson & Throndsen, Torstein S.
(2023).
Follobanen og innfartsparkering - Bruk av innfartsparkeringsplasser før og etter åpning av Follobanen.
Transportøkonomisk institutt.
ISSN 978-82-480-2063-9.
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Rapporten analyserer hvordan Follobanen har påvirket bruken av innfartsparkeringsplasser langs Østfoldbanen. Vi har registrert brukere før og etter åpning av Follobanen. Resultatene viser at forbedringen av tog-tilbudet har bidratt til flere brukere av innfarts¬parker¬ing. Stasjoner som ikke opplever forbedret tog¬tilbud, opplever også mindre brukervekst enn andre. Vi ser også en viss effekt av sonestruktur på kollektiv¬billetter. Stasjoner som ligger helt i ytterkanten av en prissone ser ut til å oppleve noe høyere brukervekst.
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Jan. 26, 2018 12:34 PM
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