S. (Samira) Ramezani, Dr

Current Projects:

1. AccessCity4All: Adapting the 15-Minute City concept to support active mobility in neighborhoods with different levels of accessibility (DUT/NWO), February 2024 - present

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Summary

PI: Samira Ramezani (funding: 300k euro from NWO)

Project team: Ward Rauws, Felix Pot, Taede Tillema, Mahdi Rahimi, and Thomas Zaw (Groningen Province)

University of Groningen leads the work package on Public Participation GIS for the European consortium and implements the project, particularly in the province of Groningen.

Description: The concept of the 15-minute city has emerged as a prominent guiding vision for urban development, sparking both excitement and controversy within the academia, planning practitioners, and the public sphere. European national research councils have jointly established a multiannual programme under the roof of Driving Urban Transitions DUT as a collaborative effort to explore the trajectories of the 15-minute city. Among the first generation of projects launched under this initiative is AccessCity4All. The project is cofounded by NWO and EU.

AccessCity4All addresses potential limitations of the 15-minute city concept by examining residents’ perceived and actualised accessibility in specific neighbourhoods. The transdisciplinary focus lies in supporting active mobility across diverse urban settings for individuals with varying needs and abilities. We employ a mixed-method research approach across five Urban Living Labs, encompassing city-wide accessibility calculations, stakeholder workshops, walk-along interviews, and Public Participation GIS surveys in up to 50 neighborhoods across the participating cities and provinces in Europe. The project consortium is coordinated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and includes project partners from University of Groningen, ILS Dortmund, University of Lisbon, and GAZI
University, as well as city partners from Vienna, Muenster, Groningen, Lisbon, and Ankara.

2. Mindful Study: Enhancing Young People’s Access to and Use of Green and Blue Spaces. A Public and Patient Involvement study

Urban Planning Lead: Samira Ramezani (European Crucible seed funding 5k Pound Sterling)

Description: an international multidisciplinary pilot project conducted in Spain and Scotland

Scottish partner: Dr. Louise Marryat, School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Completed projects:

1. HUPMOBILE: Sustainable and Smart Mobility Management in Baltic Sea Port Cities (Interreg), Involved as co-leader and researcher of Work Package 3: Mobility management and the needs of residents

PI: Prof. Marketta Kyttä

Co PI: Samira Ramezani

Academic report available at: Mobility Management and The Lifestyle of Residents in Turku region | HUPMOBILE (hupmobile-project.eu).

2. Residential Relocation and Travel behavior study (funded by Aalto University postdoctoral fellowship), February 2018_January 2020,

PI: Samira Ramezani

A related publication is available at: Link.

3. PLAN-H: Health Promoting Urban Environment, Academy of Finland grant,

PI: Prof. Marketta Kyttä.

A related publication is available at Link.

-Ongoing Ph.D. projects under supervision:

- Assessing the social equity of the planning processes and outcomes of TODs in Hong Kong and the Netherlands ( Marquis Yip )

Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Samira Ramezani, Prof. Taede Tillema, and Prof. Louise Meiering, Prof. Jos Arts.

- Double Degree (Tampere University and the University of Groningen) Ph.D. project on "Investigating the interrelations of Perceived accessibility, public transport mode choice and activity space of young adults in peripheral areas in South Africa, Netherlands, and Finland". (Carol Masingi)

Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Samira Ramezani, Prof. Taede Tillema, Prof. Heikki Liimatainen, and Assistant prof. Steve O’Hern.

- Double Degree (Aalto University and the University of Groningen) Ph.D. project on "Policy packaging for land use and transport integration planning, how can planning fields collaborate?". (Maaike Buser)

Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Samira Ramezani, Prof. Jos Arts, and Prof. Dominic Stead.

- Double Degree (Bandung University and the University of Groningen) Ph.D. project on "Exploring Passenger Adaptive Behaviour Toward Transit Service Disruption Based on User Segmentation." (Irma Yusfida)

Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Samira Ramezani and Prof. Taede Tillema.

- The utilization of the land value capture mechanism to finance transportation infrastructure: a responsive policy approach for suitable instruments in South East Asian developing countries (Yescha Danandjojo)

Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Samira Ramezani, Prof. Johan Woltjer, and Prof. Taede Tillema

- Double Degree (Tallinn University and the University of Groningen) Ph.D. Project on Co-creating regional integrated multimodal mobility systems through citizen engagement (Onne Kask)

Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Samira Ramezani,. Prof. Tauri Tuvikene, prof. Jos Arts