Expertise
Aalto University's year-round active mobility research covers winter cycling culture, cycling infrastructure maintenance, seasonal travel behaviour and institutional barriers to walking and cycling. Its work includes the Winter Cycling Culture Framework based on Oulu, winter maintenance research in Helsinki, and comparative studies across Baltic Sea Region cities. Through BATS, Aalto has developed the YRAM Diagnostics and Interventions Toolkit and contributed to evaluating city pilots.
Aalto University is a leading European academic hub for developing and researching year-round active mobility (YRAM), specializing in the planning, behavior, and infrastructure required to maintain walking and cycling during harsh Nordic winters and dark seasons. Aalto approaches year-round active mobility through three integrated pillars: academic research, transnational policy development, and on-campus living-lab deployment.
- Countries
- Finland
- People
- Milos Mladenovic · Vice Dean for Research, Associate Professor
- Partners
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Resources (7)
- Transnational Evaluation Report of BATS -project's Piloting Activities · 2026 · Author
- YRAM - Diagnostics and intervention toolkit · 2024 · Author
- Development of Diagnostics-Interventions Toolkit for Enabling Year-Round Active Mobility · 2024 · Author
- Factors Influencing the Promotion of Year-round Active Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region · 2024 · Publisher
- Institutional Barriers of Promoting Year-Round Active Mobility in Northern European Cities · 2024 · Publisher
- A Framework for Understanding Winter Cycling Culture: Case Study from Finland · 2023 · Publisher
- An Evaluation of Winter Maintenance Practices for Cycling Infrastructure: Case of Inner-City Helsinki · 2022 · Publisher