Publications by 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, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, 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, Nicola Marco Ortelli, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier, Yann Francis Eric Dubois

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, Maxime Carl Felder, Renate Albrecher

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, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, 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