Publications de Vincent Kaufmann

Diffurb: a three-stage survey measuring urban mobilities and socio-spatial differences

Vincent Kaufmann, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

DiffUrb is an interdisciplinary research collaboration aiming at describing and understanding how urban differences in terms of diverse population groups are dealt with across five European cities: Geneva, Brussels, Hamburg, Turin, and Zurich. To this end, ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Transitivity and couple relationship satisfaction: Sharing and visiting friends and family make the difference

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

This study examined the relationship between couple relationship satisfaction and the transitivity of ties with family and friends within couples, i.e., the tendency of partners to share friends and family. In this case, transitivity was measured by using ...

2025

Public transport and (shared) bikes: intermodal transfer penalties from a stated-preference survey in Geneva

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Yann Francis Eric Dubois, Nicola Marco Ortelli, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier

In recent years, the emergence of shared mobility services has created new opportunities for more flexible intermodal travel, but the behavioral barriers to their adoption remain poorly understood. Using stated-preference data collected in 2024 in Geneva, ...

STRC2025

Beyond the flexibility narrative of automobility: How regular are car users' mobility patterns?

Vincent Kaufmann, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The widespread reliance on cars for daily mobility is often justified by a perceived need for flexibility, allowing travelers to adjust activities, schedules, and trips in response to everyday demands. However, beyond the dominant narrative of automobility ...

Elsevier BV2025

Mobilités attentives aux différences

Vincent Kaufmann

Seismo verlag2025

Nouveaux agencements entre mobilité, distance et proximité : de la nécessité de dépasser les représentations dominantes

Vincent Kaufmann, Luc Marc Gwiazdzinski

Dans cet article, nous proposons de revisiter la définition sociologique de la mobilité comme une « transformation de soi » pour en explorer l’actualité dans un monde où en dépit de représentations sociales fortes, la quantité de distance géographique que ...

2025

The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

For several decades, cross-border areas have been the setting for the successive deployment of various cross-border cooperation and integration mechanisms. These mechanisms aim primarily to facilitate mobility and interaction between actors through cross-b ...

SAGE Publications2024

De l'urbain ordinaire aux villes singulières

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Renate Albrecher, Maxime Carl Felder

EPFL Press2024

Implementation gaps in cross-border co-operation: evidence from the regional train network in Greater Geneva

Vincent Kaufmann, Alexis Gumy

The Léman Express (LEx) is Europe's largest cross-border rail network. As the backbone of public transportation that connects Geneva with its French suburbs, the LEx should contribute to increasing sustainable mobility and to achieving the 2050 carbon neut ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Motility as a mediating variable in the influence of environmental concern on mobility habits

Vincent Kaufmann, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier

This study employs a second-order structural model (SEM) to conduct a mediation analysis, with the objective of elucidating the intricate relationship between environmental concerns and daily mobility habits. The mediation variable used is motility, define ...

Elsevier BV2024

Mesures d’accompagnement du Léman Express: les enseignements d’un audit transfrontalier

Vincent Kaufmann, Alexis Gumy

Quatre ans après le lancement du Léman Express, de nombreuses mesures d’accompagnement visant à favoriser l’utilisation des transports publics et la mobilité douce ont pris du retard. Un audit transfrontalier fait le point sur la situation et émet des reco ...

2024

Die Schweiz von A(rbon) bis Z(ug). Porträt in 12 Städten

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Renate Albrecher, Maxime Carl Felder

Was wäre, wenn man die urbane Schweiz nicht aus der Perspektive ihrer wenigen Metropolen beschreiben wu¨rde, sondern aus jener von Städten, die oftmals als „klein”, „mittel”, „sekundär” oder „gewöhnlich” bezeichnet werden? Diese stellen den Grossteil der S ...

EPFL Press2024

Etude sur l'impact du secteur international à Genève

Vincent Kaufmann, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

Fondation pour Genève2024

Du pari des nouvelles proximités à une nouvelle proxémique

Vincent Kaufmann, Luc Marc Gwiazdzinski

FYP éditions2024

Du pari heuristique au tournant des (nouvelles) proximités

Vincent Kaufmann, Luc Marc Gwiazdzinski

FYP éditions2024

Soothing house. How housing does mitigate time pressures?

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

For many years, an abundant literature has highlighted the time pressures induced by the more and more intricated and difficult work life balance. As it happens at home, in this paper we explore the hypothesis that housing is a resource to mitigate time pr ...

Elsevier BV2024

Les nouvelles proximités

Vincent Kaufmann, Luc Marc Gwiazdzinski

FYP éditions2024

Transformations des mobilités et recompositions des proximités

Vincent Kaufmann

FYP éditions2024

Rhythmanalysis of Switzerland, Rethinking territorial typologies

Vincent Kaufmann, Frédéric Kaplan, Yann Francis Eric Dubois, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Patrick Rerat

Rhythmanalysis is a valuable analytical approach for charting daily rhythms, both for individuals and at the collective level, in order to feel the pulse of a territory and understand the way in which it is inhabited in terms of both space and time. Concep ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Idées reçues sur l'automobile : individualité, mobilité, société

Vincent Kaufmann

Bien plus qu'un simple moyen de locomotion, la voiture est un véritable miroir de la société. Marqueur social, symbole de liberté, compagne des vacances en famille et témoin de souvenirs marquants, elle est aussi masculine, vecteur d'agressivité et... poll ...

Le cavalier bleu2024