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 associate professor (docent) and senior lecturer in Human geography. My research focuses on mobility, accessibility and time use, typically in relation to various sustainability, planning and welfare issues. I am currently involved in two research projects:

Urban proximity: to what and for whom? The long-term development and social distribution of sustainable accessibility in selected Swedish urban regions (Formas: Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
Ageing times. Understanding generational changes in elderly’s use of time and space with implications for health and wellbeing. med Bertil Vilhelmson och Eva Thulin (Forte: Swedish Research Council for Health,Working Life and Welfare).

Recently finished research projects:

The changing acceptance and practice of telework. Analyzing the expansion of flexible work in Sweden 2005 - 2014. (Forte: Swedish Research Council for Health,Working Life and Welfare).
How does urban densification lead to energy-efficient daily travel? med Katarina Haugen, Bertil Vilhelmson och Anders Larsson (Swedish Energy Agency).

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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