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Erik Elldér

Senior Lecturer

Human Geography
Telephone
+46 31-786 13 86
+46 737-24 16 45
Mail
erik.ellder@geography.gu.se
Visiting address
Viktoriagatan 13, floor 5
41124 Göteborg
Room number
414
Postal address
Box 625
40530 Göteborg

About Erik Elldér

I am an associate professor/docent and senior lecturer in Human Geography. My research focuses on mobility, geographical accessibility, everyday time use, and the relationship between the built environment, planning and sustainable travel behaviour. A recurring theme in my work is how spatial conditions, such as proximity to services, public transport and urban environments, shape people’s everyday lives, travel behaviour, welfare and opportunities for sustainable transition.

In recent years, my research has particularly focused on urban proximity ideals, the social distribution of accessibility, the 15-minute city, telework, active travel and older adults’ time use. I mainly work with quantitative methods, GIS, register data, time-use data and spatial analysis.

I am currently leading the research project CLOSE – Consequences of LOcal Service Expansions, funded by Formas, which examines how new local service establishments affect residential mobility, population composition, local business development and social inequality in Swedish cities.

I am also involved in the project Unlocking Latent Demand for Collective Mobility: Evidence, Governance and Planning Tools in Swedish City Regions, funded by K2, which analyses the potential for collective mobility in Swedish city regions.

Previously funded research projects include:

  • Urban proximity: to what and for whom? The long-term development and social distribution of sustainable accessibility in selected Swedish urban regions (Formas)

  • Ageing times. Understanding generational changes in elderly’s use of time and space with implications for health and wellbeing (Forte, with Bertil Vilhelmson and Eva Thulin)

  • The changing acceptance and practice of telework. Analyzing the expansion of flexible work in Sweden 2005–2014 (Forte)

  • How, where and when urban densification leads to energy-efficient daily travel (Swedish Energy Agency, with Katarina Haugen and Bertil Vilhelmson)

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Research areas

  • Human mobility studies

  • Everday travel behaviour

  • Accessibility

  • Time use

  • GIS and quantitative methods

Teaching areas

  • GIS

  • Quantitative methods

  • Geography of mobility and transport

  • Spatial planning