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Overview

Petter Næss is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway and has a research portfolio concentrated primarily in the social sciences. Their scholarly output comprises numerous publications addressing topics related to urban and transportation studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Petter Næss are:

  • The urban density in two Nordic capitals - comparing the development of Oslo and Helsinki metropolitan regions, 2020, European Planning Studies
  • Exploring nonlinear built environment effects on driving with a mixed-methods approach, 2022, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • The hidden side of Norwegian cabin fairytale: climate implications of multi-dwelling lifestyle, 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
  • Are compact cities a threat to public health?, 2020, European Planning Studies
  • Residential Location and Travel in the Reykjavik Capital Region, 2021, Sustainability

Petter Næss has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Harpa Stefánsdóttir
  • Hamza Abid
  • Morten Elle
  • Michał Czepkiewicz
  • Jukka Heinonen

The venues where Petter Næss has most often published include:

  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • European Planning Studies
  • Research Portal (King's College London)
  • Aalborg University Library
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their main fields of study situate within social sciences, with subfields covering:

  • Transportation
  • Urban Studies
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Building and Construction
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Key research topics explored by Petter Næss include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives

Best Publications

  • Urban Planning and Sustainable Development

    Petter Næss

  • Applying gradient boosting decision trees to examine non-linear effects of the built environment on driving distance in Oslo

    Chuan Ding;Xinyu (Jason) Cao;Xinyu (Jason) Cao;Petter Næss

  • Residential location affects travel behavior: but how and why? the case of Copenhagen metropolitan area

    Petter Næss

  • Urban Structure Matters: Residential Location, Car Dependence and Travel Behaviour

    Petter Naess

  • Urban form and travel behavior: Experience from a Nordic context

    Petter Næss

  • Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future

    Roy Bhaskar;Cheryl Frank;Karl Georg Hoyer;Petter Naess

  • Residential Self-Selection and Appropriate Control Variables in Land Use: Travel Studies

    Petter Næss

  • Workplace Location, Modal Split and Energy Use for Commuting Trips

    Petter Naess;Synneve Lyssand Sandberg

  • Accessibility, Activity Participation and Location of Activities: Exploring the Links between Residential Location and Travel Behaviour:

    Petter Næss

  • Sustainable urban development and the multi- level transition perspective

    Petter Næss;Nina Vogel

  • Conference Tourism: A Problem for the Environment, as well as for Research?

    Karl Georg Høyer;Petter Næss

  • Urban form, travel behavior, and travel satisfaction

    Kostas Mouratidis;Dick Ettema;Petter Næss

  • Residential location, commuting and non-work travel in two urban areas of different size and with different center structures

    Petter Næss;Arvid Strand;Fitwi Wolday;Harpa Stefansdottir

  • Travelling Distances, Modal Split and Transportation Energy in Thirty Residential Areas in Oslo

    Petter Næss;Per Gunnar Røe;Synnøve Larsen

  • Urban Structures and Travel Behaviour: Experiences from Empirical Research in Norway and Denmark

    Petter Naess

  • Cost-Benefit Analyses of Transportation Investments — Neither critical nor realistic

    Petter Næss

  • ‘New urbanism’ or metropolitan-level centralization? A comparison of the influences of metropolitan-level and neighborhood-level urban form characteristics on travel behavior.

    Petter Naess

  • Tempest in a teapot: The exaggerated problem of transport-related residential self-selection as a source of error in empirical studies

    Petter Naess

  • Prediction, Regressions and Critical Realism

    Petter Næss

  • Oslo's Farewell to Urban Sprawl

    Petter Næss;Teresa Næss;Arvid Strand

  • Urban structure matters, even in a small town

    Petter NÆss;Ole B. Jensen

  • Dictionary of Critical Realism

    Petter Næss

Frequent Co-Authors

Bent Flyvbjerg
Bent Flyvbjerg University of Oxford

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