Scholars
Oliver Schwedes
freelance
Based in
Germany
Europe
Oliver Schwedes is freelance expert in Transport and Mobility. He was Visiting Professor for Integrated Transport Planning and -Policy at Technische Universität Berlin from 2014 to 2023. He studied political science, sociology and philosophy in Marburg, Berlin and Edinburgh before obtaining his doctorate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Subsequently he worked in the mobility project group at the Berlin Social Science Center. Since then he has been analysing people’s mobility behaviour and the political economy of urban and transport development.
Country(ies) of Specialty
GermanyFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate Justice Behavioral actionPublications
Articles
Christoph Aberle/ Stephan Daubitz/ Oliver Schwedes/ Carsten Gertz (2025): Measuring transport poverty with a mixed-methods approach. A comparative case study of the German cities Berlin and Hamburg. In: Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104140
Oliver Schwedes (2025): Verkehrspolitik. Ein problemorientierter Überblick. In: Oliver Schwedes/ Alexander Rammert/ Kerstin Stark (Hrsg.): Handbuch Verkehrspolitik. Wiesbaden: Springer Nature.
Sven Hausigke & Oliver Schwedes (2024): Politics and administration in support of transformation for sustainable mobility: a case study of the municipality Berlin–Pankow In: Discover Sustainability, Volume 5, article number 483. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-024-00683-8