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Bertil Vilhelmson
Seniorforskare
HumanAbout Bertil Vilhelmson
Senior professor in Human Geography
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Research areas
- Mobility studies – the geography of human spatial interaction
- Transportation, communication, ICTs and migration
- Environmental planning and geography
- Time use studies
- Urban and regional planning
Teaching areas
- Transportation and communication geography
- Environmental geography
- Sustainable mobility
- Urban and regional planning
- Research methods
Selected publications
Daily mobility and the use of time for different activities. The case of Sweden
Vilhelmson, Bertil
GeoJournal, 48, s. 177-185, 1999
Does the Internet encourage people to move? Investigating Swedish young adults’ internal migration experiences and plans
Vilhelmson, Bertil, Thulin, Eva
Geoforum, 47:June, s. 209-216, 2013
Where does time spent on the internet come from? Tracing the influence of information and communications technology use on daily activities
Vilhelmson, Bertil, Thulin, Eva, Elldér, Erik
Information, Communication and Society, 20:2, s. 250-263, 2016
Who and where are the flexible workers? Exploring the current diffusion of telework in Sweden
Vilhelmson, Bertil, Thulin, Eva
New technology, work and employment, 31:1, s. 77-96, 2016
Spatial, generational and gendered trends and trend-breaks in mobility
Frändberg, Lotta, Vilhelmson, Bertil
Handbook of Sustainable Travel. Eds T. Gärling, D. Ettema & M. Friman, Dordrecht : Springer, s. 15-32, 2014
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Is a car necessary for active aging? Relationships between aging, car use, and time spent on activities that sustain health and
well-being
Erik Elldér, Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives - 2023 -
Telework after confinement: Interrogating the spatiotemporalities of home-based work
life
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson, Louise Brundin
Journal of Transport Geography - 2023 -
Närhetens roll för människors livsprojekt och jämställda vardagsliv i
staden
Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Louise Brundin
Rättvist resande?: Villkor, utmaningar och visioner för samhällsplaneringen - 2023 -
Är nya generationer av äldre aktivare än tidigare? En studie av kohortvisa förändringar i daglig
tidsanvändning
Bertil Vilhelmson
Tidsgeografiska dagarna, 11-12 maj 2023, Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö - 2023 -
Sustained Work from Home Post-Pandemic? A Swedish
Case
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Louise Brundin
Findings - 2023 -
Time change in the distribution of physical activity and its correlates among retired older Swedish adults: a repeated cross-sectional study from a national
survey
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Erik Elldér
BMC Public Health - 2022 -
To choose, or not to choose, a nearby activity option: Understanding the gendered role of proximity in urban
settings
Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson
Journal of Transport Geography - 2022 -
Changes in outdoor physical activities among older people in Sweden: Exploring generational shifts in time spent in natural
environments
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien - 2022 -
Is ageing becoming more active? Exploring cohort-wise changes in everyday time use among the older population in
Sweden
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Erik Elldér
European Journal of Ageing - 2022 -
When local access matters: A detailed analysis of place, neighbourhood amenities and travel
choice
Erik Elldér, Katarina Haugen, Bertil Vilhelmson
Urban Studies - 2022 -
Nya livsmönster i pandemins kölvatten? Om distansarbetets betydelse för vardagsliv och
mobilitet
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Forskarkonferens Storstad och periferi efter pandemin, 10–12 oktober 2022, Högbo Bruk, Sverige - 2022 -
Pacesetters in contemporary telework: How smartphones and mediated presence reshape the time–space rhythms of daily
work
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
New technology, work and employment - 2022 -
Fading togetherness? Exploring generational changes in shared time use among the older population in
Sweden
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson, Erik Elldér
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics - 2022 -
Realizing proximity in times of deregulation and densification: Evaluating urban change from a welfare regime
perspective
Bertil Vilhelmson, Erik Elldér
Journal of Transport Geography - 2021 -
Is ageing becoming more active? Cohort-wise changes in everyday time use among the older population in
Sweden.
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Erik Elldér
Presentation at International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) 43rd Annual Conference, Barcelona, 26-29 Oct. 2021 - 2021 -
Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday
Life
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson, Tim Schwanen
Annals of the American Association of Geographers - 2020 -
Tillgänglighet på hållbara villkor. Mot en ökad närhet i
vardagen.
Ana Gil Sola, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Kollektiva resor. Utmaningar för socialt hållbar tillgänglighet. Henriksson M och Lindkvist C (red) - 2020 -
Hvorfor reiser vi slik som vi
gjør?
Bertil Vilhelmson
https://www.toi.no/commute/sluttseminar/ - 2020 -
Usability of Accessibility Instruments in Regional Planning: The Case of Labour Markets and Daily Commuting in the Food Sector in Västra Götaland,
Sweden
Anders Larsson, Erik Elldér, Bertil Vilhelmson
Cecilia Silva, Nuno Pinto, Luca Bertolini Eds. (2019) Designing Accessibility Instruments. Lessons on Their Usability for Integrated Land Use and Transport Planning Practices, 1st Edition. - 2019 -
New Telework, Time Pressure, and Time Use Control in Everyday
Life
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson, Martina Johansson
Sustainability - 2019 -
Generationsvisa förändringar i äldres aktivitetsmönster betydelsefulla för hälsa och
välfärd.
Bertil Vilhelmson
Tidsgeografiska dagarna 2019, 9-10 maj, Göteborgs universitet - 2019 -
Att förstå och undersöka hållbar
tillgänglighet
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More at home, more alone? Youth, digital media and the everyday use of time and
space
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Geoforum - 2019 -
Bringing the background to the fore. Time-geography and the study of mobile ICTs in everyday
life.
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
In: K Ellegård (Ed) Time Geography in the Global Context. An Anthology. - 2019 -
Negotiating proximity in sustainable urban planning: A Swedish
case
Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson
Sustainability - 2019 -
Accessibility strategies beyond the private car: A study of voluntarily carless families with young children in
Gothenburg
Ellen Lagrell, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Journal of Transport Geography - 2018 -
Everyday life changes in times of digitalization. Examining the daily activity patterns of young people in
Sweden
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Paper presented at 40th International Association for Time Use Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 24-26 October 2018 - 2018 -
Understanding sustainable accessibility in urban planning: Themes of consensus, themes of
tension
Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson, Anders Larsson
Journal of Transport Geography - 2018 -
What did we do when the Internet wasn’t around? Variation in free-time activities among three young-adult cohorts from 1990/1991, 2000/2001, and
2010/2011
Bertil Vilhelmson, Erik Elldér, Eva Thulin
New Media and Society - 2018 -
When does urban densification encourage proximity-oriented mobility
patterns?
Katarina Haugen, Erik Elldér, Bertil Vilhelmson
AESOP Annual Congress, July 10-14 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden - 2018 -
Proximity changes to what and for whom? Investigating sustainable accessibility change in the Gothenburg city region
1990–2014
Erik Elldér, Anders Larsson, Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation - 2018 -
Where does time spent on the internet come from? Tracing the influence of information and communications technology use on daily
activities
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Erik Elldér
Information, Communication and Society - 2017 -
Unga, digitala media och vardagslivet: Flöden i bakgrunden, prioriteringar i
förgrunden
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Presentation vid Tidsgeografiska dagarna, Örebro universitet, 28-30 sept 2017 - 2017 -
Does online co-presence increase spatial flexibility? On social media and young people’s migration
considerations
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
CyberGeo: European Journal of Geography - 2017 -
Understanding sustainable accessibility in urban planning. Themes of consensus, themes of
tension
Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson, Anders Larsson
7th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm, 18-21 June 2017 - 2017 -
Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in
Sweden
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Population, Space and Place - 2016 -
The internet and desire to move: the role of virtual practices in the inspiration phase of
migration
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie - 2016 -
Changes in young people’s use of time and space due to increased virtual
mobility
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson, Erik Elldér
2nd International Time-Geography Conference, Linköping, September 21-24, 2016 - 2016 -
Who and where are the flexible workers? Exploring the current diffusion of telework in
Sweden
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
New technology, work and employment - 2016 -
Compromising sustainable mobility? The case of the Gothenburg congestion
tax
Erik Hysing, Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management - 2015 -
Synpunkter på tillstånd och utvecklingslinjer inom HS-området ur kulturgeografisk synvinkel. Bilaga till Forskningens framtid. Ämnesöversikt 2014: Humaniora och
samhällsvetenskap
Bertil Vilhelmson
2015 -
Accessibility Atlas to Analyse Regional Acessibility to Labour in the Food
Sector
Anders Larsson, Erik Elldér, Bertil Vilhelmson
COST Action TU1002 – Assessing Usability of Accessibility Instruments - 2014 -
Spatial, generational and gendered trends and trend-breaks in
mobility
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Handbook of Sustainable Travel. Eds T. Gärling, D. Ettema & M. Friman - 2014 -
Geografisk
tillgänglighet
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Tillgänglighet, mobilitet och IT baserade tillgänglighetsverktyg för
kollektivtrafikplanering
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Transport geography in
Sweden
Bertil Vilhelmson
Journal of Transport Geography - 2014 -
Virtual practices and migration plans: a qualitative study of urban young
adults
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Population, Space and Place - 2014 -
The Internet and the migration process: the role of virtual practices in the pre-migrant
phase
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
IGU Regional Conference, Kraków, Poland, 18-22 August 2014 - 2014 -
Combining mobile and stationary ICT use - Implications for everyday
life
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
The International Time-Geography Days 2014, May 14-16, Linköping - 2014 -
Does the Internet encourage people to move? Investigating Swedish young adults’ internal migration experiences and
plans
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Geoforum - 2013 -
Where are the flexible workers? Urban-rural aspects of
telework
Bertil Vilhelmson
5th Nordic Geographers Meeting, 11-14 June 2013, Reykjavik - 2013 -
Hållbar mobilitet och omgivningsstrukturer i
förändring
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Hållbar utveckling. Samhällsplanering, lokala villkor och globala beroenden - 2013 -
The divergent role of spatial access: The changing supply and location of service amenities and service travel distance in
Sweden
Katarina Haugen, Bertil Vilhelmson
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice - 2013 -
Proximity, accessibility and choice: A matter of taste or
condition?
Katarina Haugen, Einar Holm, Magnus Strömgren, Bertil Vilhelmson, Kerstin Westin
Papers in Regional Science - 2012 -
The virtualization of urban young people's mobility practices: A time-geographic
typology
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography - 2012 -
Social relations, the Internet and decisions to
move
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Paper pres. at The 32nd International Geographical Congress, Köln 26-28 Aug. 2012 - 2012 -
Convergence or divergence? Changing gender differences in commuting in two Swedish urban
regions
Ana Gil Sola, Bertil Vilhelmson
Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography - 2012 -
More or less travel: personal mobility trends in the Swedish population focusing gender and
cohort
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY - 2011 -
Does the Internet encourage people to move? An exploratory study of Swedish young adult´s migration experiences and
plans
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Paper to 5th ICT Expert Group Meeting, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2011, Berlin - 2011 -
More or less travel: personal mobility trends in the Swedish
population
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Journal of Transport Geography - 2011 -
Old, yet young: travel-activity patterns among new pensioners in
Sweden
Kerstin Westin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Social Space - 2011 -
'Excess' travel - when distance is
subordinated
Katarina Haugen, Bertil Vilhelmson
Geographical Knowledge, Nature and Practice. Nordic Geographers Meeting, 24th-27th May 2011, Roskilde, Denmark - 2011 -
ICTs and Activities on the Move? People’s Use of Time While Traveling by Public
Transportation
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Daniel Fahlén
Engineering Earth. The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects. Stanley D. Brunn (ed.) - 2011 -
The Internet, mobile phones and the geographies of everyday
life
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
YMER 2010 - 2010 -
Changes in personal mobility – trends and counter trends in
Sweden
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Paper presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 11-17 July, Sweden, Gothenburg - 2010 -
Vad gör man när man reser? En undersökning av resenärers användning av restiden i regional
kollektivtrafik
Daniel Fahlén, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
2010 -
Vad gör man när man reser? Hur människor använder sin restid i regional
kollektivtrafik
Daniel Fahlén, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Transportforum, 13-14 januari 2010, Linköping - 2010 -
Structuring Sustainable Mobility: A Critical Issue for
Geography
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Geography Compass - 2010 -
Rörlighetsstrategier i
förändring.
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Svensk Geografisk Årsbok 2009, Årgång 85 - 2009 -
Virtuell kontakt vs fysiskt resande. Vad händer när IT-användningen
ökar?
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Transportforum, 9 Januari 2009, Linköping - 2009 -
Mobile phones: Transforming the everyday social communication practice of urban
youth
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
In S. Campbell & R. Ling (Eds.) The reconstruction of space and time. Mobile communication practises - 2009 -
Activities on the move? People´s use of time while travelling by public
transportation
Daniel Fahlén, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Change - Society, Environment and Science in Transition. Nordic Geographers Meeting, 8-11 June, Turku, Finland. Turku University Department of Geography Publications - 2009 -
Rörlighetens tid. Vinnova
slutrapport
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Den användbara restiden. Utgångspunkter för en studie av restidens förändrade användning och betydelse i människors
vardag.
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Virtual mobility, time use and the place of the
home
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Journal of Economic and Social Geography, TESG - 2008 -
Aspects of Corporeal, Virtual and Media Mobility Development in
Sweden
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Kristina Lindström
Cosmobilities workshop: The future of Cosmobilities Network, 12-14 march 2008, Holbaek, Denmark - 2008 -
Mobiles everywhere: Youth, the mobile phone, and changes in everyday
practice
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Young : Nordic Journal of Youth Research - 2007 -
The use of the car. Mobility dependencies of urban everyday
life
Bertil Vilhelmson
In T. Gärling and L. Steg (Eds.) Threats to the Quality of Urban Life from Car Traffic: Problems, Causes, and Solutions - 2007 -
Mobiles all around: Changes in everyday communication practice of urban
youth
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Paper to 2nd Nordic Geographers Meeting. Bergen, Norway, 15-17 June, 2007 - 2007 -
Structuring sustainable mobility - a critical issue for environmental
geography
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Paper to the 2nd Nordic Geographers Meeting, Bergen, Norway 15-17 June 2007. - 2007 -
ICT, proximity and the place of home: a time use
perspective
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Paper to the Fifth Proximity Conference: Proximity between interactions and institutions, Bordeaux, France, 28-30 June, 2006 - 2006 -
Rörlighetens omvandling: Svenska ungdomars resor och virtuella
kommunikation.
Lotta Frändberg, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Framtider - 2006 -
Virtual mobility and processes of displacement:Young peopleâ??s changing use of ICT, time, and
place.
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Netcom - 2006 -
Mapping the potential consequences of car-use reduction in urban
areas
Peter Loukopoulos, Tommy Gärling, Bertil Vilhelmson
Journal of Transport Geography - 2005 -
Time for mobility.Outlines on an
investigation
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Paper to the Inaugaral Nordic Geographers Meeting. May 10-14, 2005, Lund, Sweden. - 2005 -
Rörlighetens omvandling. Om resor och virtuell kommunikation - mönster, drivkrafter,
gränser.
Lotta Frändberg, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
2005 -
Mobilitet och miljö i globaliseringens tid. Om svenskarnas internationella
resande.
Bertil Vilhelmson, Lotta Frändberg
Konflikter, samarbete, resultat. Perspektiv på svensk miljöpolitik. - 2005 -
Virtual mobility of urban youth. ICT-based communication in
Sweden.
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. - 2005 -
Reser man mindre i täta
städer?
Bertil Vilhelmson
Gränsbrytning - 2005 -
Urbanisation and everyday mobility. Long-term changes of travel in urban areas of
Sweden.
Bertil Vilhelmson
Cybergeo - 2005 -
Virtual mobility and people´s use of time and place. Developments in
Sweden
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Paper to the 30th Congess of the International Geographical Union, Aug. 2004, Glasgow - 2004 -
Coastal protection for whom? Land use conflicts in coastal
areas
Jens Ingensand, Bertil Vilhelmson
Poster to the Nordic GIS-conference, 18-20 Oct. 2004, Göteborg - 2004 -
Integrated Mobility
Research
Lotta Frändberg, Kristina Lindström, Lisette Petersson, Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
Poster at the International Geographical Union’s congress, Glasgow 15-20 August 2004 - 2004 -
Utvecklingen av bebyggelsen i strandzonen vid Gullmarn 1975 -
2001.
Jens Ingensand, Bertil Vilhelmson
2004 -
Home as a pocket of local order: Everyday activities and the friction of
distance.
Kajsa Ellegård, Bertil Vilhelmson
Geografiska Annaler B - 2004 -
Personal mobility - a corporeal dimension of transnationalisation. Long-distance travel from Sweden
1994-2000
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
Environment & Planning A - 2003 -
ICT-based activities among young people - user strategies in time and
space
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Paper to the Digital Communities Conference 2003, Stockholm, Sweden, June 15-18, 2003 - 2003 -
Hur utvecklas kollektivresandet
framöver?
Bertil Vilhelmson
Kollektivtrafik med människan i centrum - 2003 -
Green consumption, energy use and carbon dioxide
emission.
Bertil Vilhelmson
Geografiska Annaler Series B - 2003 -
Rörlighetens internationalisering: Den svenska befolkningens utlandsresande
1994-2000.
Lotta Frändberg, Bertil Vilhelmson
2002 -
Rörlighet och förankring - Geografiska aspekter på människors
välfärd
Bertil Vilhelmson
2002 -
Is regular work at fixed places fading away? The development of ICT-based and travel-based modes of work in
Sweden
Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin
Environment and Planning - 2001 -
ICT, work-related activities and
travel
Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson
NETCOM, Networks and Communication Studies - 2000 -
Reser man mindre i täta orter? - Tätortsstrukturer och dagligt resande i Sverige 1978 och
1997
Bertil Vilhelmson
2000 -
Daily mobility and the use of time for different activities. The case of
Sweden
Bertil Vilhelmson
GeoJournal - 1999