Torstein Storsveen Throndsen

Doctoral Research Fellow - Sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi

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Email t.s.throndsen@sosgeo.uio.no

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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Harriet Holters hus 0851 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1096 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Other affiliations Faculty of Social Sciences (Student)

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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

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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

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. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
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.
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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Throndsen, Torstein S.; Böcker, Lars & Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2019). Utstilling med diverse plakater om bl.a. kollektivtransport, elsykkel insentiver, sykkeldeling og bildeling .
Böcker, Lars & Throndsen, Torstein S. (2018). Smart Micro Cities.
Throndsen, Torstein S. (2017). Does the Urban Structure Mobility? Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo.