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Petter Næss

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Four common misconceptions in quantitative studies of the built environment and travel

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment·2025·1 author·Open access

18citations

Changes in mode use after residential relocation: Attitudes and the built environment

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment·2025·4 authors·Open access

19citations

In search of causality in the relationship between the built environment and travel behaviour. On the challenges of planning and realising an ambitious mixed-methods panel travel survey among relocating households in Germany

Progress in Planning·2023·8 authors

16citations

Urban sustainability responsibilities of the European planning profession in the next decades

European Planning Studies·2023·1 author·Open access

15citations

Exploring nonlinear built environment effects on driving with a mixed-methods approach

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment·2022·2 authors

47citations

Compact urban development in Norway: Spatial changes, underlying policies and travel impacts

Advances in transport policy and planning·2022·1 author·chapter

26citations

Change processes and driving forces behind urban spatial development in four Norwegian municipalities

Nordic Journal of Urban Studies·2021·2 authors·Open access

11citations

Sustainable urban planning – what kinds of change do we need?

Journal of Critical Realism·2021·1 author

18citations

Residential Location and Travel in the Reykjavik Capital Region

Sustainability·2021·5 authors·Open access

21citations

The hidden side of Norwegian cabin fairytale: climate implications of multi-dwelling lifestyle

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism·2020·5 authors·Open access

40citations

Are compact cities a threat to public health?

European Planning Studies·2020·3 authors

20citations

Workplace location, polycentricism, and car commuting

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2019·3 authors·Open access

34citations

Urban form, travel behavior, and travel satisfaction

Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice·2019·3 authors·Open access

177citations

Second home mobility, climate impacts and travel modes: Can sustainability obstacles be overcome?

Journal of Transport Geography·2019·5 authors·Open access

36citations

Meta-Analyses of Built Environment Effects on Travel: No New Platinum Standard

Journal of Planning Education and Research·2019·1 author·editorial

38citations

Urban sustainability: is densification sufficient?

European Planning Studies·2019·3 authors

112citations

How and Why Does Intra-Metropolitan Workplace Location Affect Car Commuting?

Sustainability·2019·3 authors·Open access

19citations

Travel-based residential self-selection: A qualitatively improved understanding from Norway

Cities·2019·3 authors

50citations

Examining the effects of the built environment on auto ownership in two Norwegian urban regions

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment·2019·3 authors

105citations

Built environment, non-motorized travel and overall physical activity

Travel Behaviour and Society·2018·3 authors

59citations

Residential location, workplace location and car driving in four Norwegian cities

European Planning Studies·2018·3 authors·Open access

48citations

Causality, not just correlation: Residential location, transport rationales and travel behavior across metropolitan contexts

Journal of Transport Geography·2018·4 authors·Open access

76citations

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

Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice·2018·2 authors

446citations

Examining factors that keep residents with high transit preference away from transit-rich zones and associated behavior outcomes

Journal of Transport Geography·2017·3 authors·Open access

50citations

Which D’s are the important ones? The effects of regional location and density on driving distance in Oslo and Stavanger

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2017·3 authors·Open access

39citations

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

Progress in Planning·2017·4 authors·Open access

135citations

Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research

Applied Mobilities·2017·3 authors·Open access

59citations

Local self-determination, process-focus and subordination of environmental concerns

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning·2016·2 authors·Open access

19citations

Urban Planning: Residential Location and Compensatory Behaviour in Three Scandinavian Cities

Springer eBooks·2016·1 author·chapter

20citations

Forecasting inaccuracies: a result of unexpected events, optimism bias, technical problems, or strategic misrepresentation?

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2015·4 authors·Open access

25citations

How planners’ use and non-use of expert knowledge affect the goal achievement potential of plans: Experiences from strategic land-use and transport planning processes in three Scandinavian cities

Progress in Planning·2015·4 authors·Open access

91citations

Built Environment, Causality and Travel

Transport Reviews·2015·1 author·Open access

103citations

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

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2014·1 author·Open access

106citations

Roads to nowhere: The accuracy of travel demand forecasts for do-nothing alternatives

Transport Policy·2014·2 authors

26citations

Transport modelling in the context of the ‘predict and provide’ paradigm

European journal of transport and infrastructure research·2014·4 authors·Open access

27citations

Knowledge-based land use and transport planning? Consistency and gap between “state-of-the-art” knowledge and knowledge claims in planning documents in three Scandinavian city regions

Planning Theory & Practice·2013·4 authors·Open access

44citations

Urban Form, Sustainability and Health: The Case of Greater Oslo

European Planning Studies·2013·1 author·Open access

67citations

Innovations for sustainable public transport: experiences and challenges in the Scandinavian countries.

VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet)·2013·8 authors·book·Open access

11citations

Residential location, transport rationales and daily-life travel behaviour: The case of Hangzhou Metropolitan Area, China

Progress in Planning·2012·1 author

81citations

Urban form and travel behavior: experience from a Nordic context

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2012·1 author·Open access

240citations

What Kinds of Traffic Forecasts are Possible?

Journal of Critical Realism·2012·2 authors

30citations

Traffic Forecasts Ignoring Induced Demand: a Shaky Fundament for Cost-Benefit Analyses

European journal of transport and infrastructure research·2012·3 authors·Open access

64citations

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

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2011·1 author·Open access

91citations

On their road to sustainability?: The challenge of sustainable mobility in urban planning and development in two Scandinavian capital regions

Town Planning Review·2011·4 authors·Open access

65citations

Residential location, travel, and energy use in the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area

Journal of Transport and Land Use·2010·1 author·Open access

70citations

Oslo's Farewell to Urban Sprawl

European Planning Studies·2010·3 authors

79citations

Residential Location, Travel Behaviour, and Energy Use: Hangzhou Metropolitan Area Compared to Copenhagen

Indoor and Built Environment·2009·1 author

20citations

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

Transport Reviews·2009·1 author

241citations

Interdisciplinarity, Ecology and Scientific Theory

Journal of Critical Realism·2008·2 authors

18citations

Achieving sustainable mobility. Everyday and leisure-time travel in the EU

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management·2008·1 author·other

65citations

Residential location, travel and energy use: the case of Hangzhou Metropolitan Area

·2007·1 author

19citations

Virtual mobility and organizational reality – a note on the mobility needs in knowledge organisations

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment·2006·3 authors

35citations

Urban Structure Matters

Routledge eBooks·2006·1 author·book

91citations

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

·2006·1 author

147citations

Do Road Planners Produce More ‘Honest Numbers’ than Rail Planners? An Analysis of Accuracy in Road‐traffic Forecasts in Cities versus Peripheral Regions

Transport Reviews·2006·3 authors·Open access

48citations

Cost-Benefit Analyses of Transportation Investments - Neither critical nor realistic [1]

Journal of Critical Realism·2006·1 author

50citations

Cost-Benefit Analyses of Transportation Investments

Journal of Critical Realism·2006·1 author

35citations

Are Short Daily Trips Compensated by Higher Leisure Mobility?

Environment and Planning B Planning and Design·2006·1 author

63citations

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

Urban Studies·2006·1 author

174citations

Residential location affects travel behavior—but how and why?

Progress in Planning·2004·1 author

15citations