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• 2025/11 New paper published: Ji, J., Gramsch-Calvo, B., Axhausen, K. W., Moeckel, R., Parady, G. (2026) Meet me halfway: Disentangling the factors affecting leisure joint destination choice. Travel Behavior and Society 43, 101175
• 2025/10 New paper published: Nakamura Y., Uemura H., Parady G., Takami K. (2025): A Study on the Causal Effects of Pedestrianization of the Frontage Roads of Midosuji on Surrounding Traffic Condition. Journal of City Planning Institute of Japan   60(3)  https://doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.60.1588
• 2025/10 Started a new position as Global Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, School of Governance.
• 2025/10 New paper published: Gramsch-Calvo B., Okamura K., Takami K., Oyama Y., Chikaraishi M., Axhausen K., Parady G. (2025): Going the extra mile: Estimating the willingness to travel to meet with friends using a joint destination choice model. Journal of Transport Geography, 129, 104429
• 2025/09 New chapter published: Kim S., Parady G. (2025): Autonomous Vehicles and Travel Behavior. International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology.
• 2025/08 New paper published: Chikaraishi, M., Harata, N., Dihingia, S., Takami, K., Parady G. (2025) A co-evolutionary simulation of social network and activity engagement. Transportation
• 2025/07 Presented our ongoing work on transit accessibility considering delays at CASPT and Transit Data at Kyoto: Sato I., Takami K., Parady G. (2025) Evaluation of Public Transport Accessibility Under Delay Conditions: A Case Study of a Japanese Regional City. Presented at the 16^th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT 2025), Kyoto, Japan, July 1-4.
• 2025/06 Presented our ongoing work on joint accessibility on the TRISTAN XII at Okinawa: Parady G., Ji, J., Takami K. (2025) Estimating the Joint Accessibility of Group Travel: A Case Study of Leisure Activities in The Greater Tokyo Area. Presented at the 12th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis, Okinawa, Japan,June 22-27.
• 2025/06 Presented three papers at hEART 2025, Munich Germany:
  • Ji, J., Takami, K., Parady G., Moeckel, R. (2025) Crossing Paths: Incorporating Joint Accessibility in Large Scale Agent-Based Models. Presented at the 13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025), Munich, Germany, June 10-12
  • Uemura H., Parady G., Takami K.(2025) Exploring the impact of availability of bike sharing system on rental housing value: A case study in Japanese cites. Presented at the 13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025), Munich, Germany, June 10-12.
  • Lim, S. , Sato K., Takami K., Parady G., and Kim E.(2025) Can large language models understand dynamic group decision-making processes? Evidence on destination choice. Presented at the 13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025), Munich, Germany, June 10-12.
• 2025/05 New paper published: Parady, G., Chikaraishi, M., Oyama, Y. (2025) A Walker’s Paradise ain’t a Driver’s Hell: Evaluating the Causal Effect of Temporary Road Pedestrianization on Traffic Condition of Surrounding Roads. Journal of Transport Geography 127, 104269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104269 (Open Access)
• 2025/05 New paper published: Takizawa, T., Parady, G., Takami, K. (2025) Quantifying the effect of mobility-restricting policy stringency on leisure outings in the Greater Tokyo Area. Findings. 
• 2025/03 Awarded the Faculty of Engineering Best Teaching Award.

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• 2025/01 Presented three papers at the 2025 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC:
  • Uemura H., Parady G., Takami K. (2025) Analyzing preferences for shared mobility servicies in Japanese Urban Areas. Presented at the 104th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. USA, January 5-9.
  • Ji, J., Gramsch-Calvo, B., Axhausen, K. W., Moeckel, R., Parady, G. (2025) Meet me halfway: Disentangling the factors affecting leisure joint destination choice. Presented at the 104th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. USA, January 5-9.
  • Gramsch-Calvo B., Okamura K., Takami K., Oyama Y., Chikaraishi M., Axhausen K., Parady G. (2025) Going the extra mile: Estimating the willingness to travel to meet with friends using a joint destination choice model. Presented at the 104th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. USA, January 5-9.
• 2024/11/05 Presented our work on Optimization-enriched Interactive Street Network Design (i-SND): A novel methodology for human-centric urban transportation planning at the Urban Transitions Conference 2024 at Sitges, Spain.
• 2024/10/25 New papers published:
  • Okamura K., Oyama, Y., Chikaraishi, M., Takami, K., Parady, G. (2024) Modeling collective decisions on eating-out location choice. Journal of City Planning Institute of Japan   59(3)   (In Japanese) DOI: https://doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.59.1675
  • Mori N., Takami, K., Parady, G., Koizumi, H. (2024) Factors affecting community-led introduction of transportation services under the Yokohama City Community Transportation Support Project: A case study of topographically inconvenient areas in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama City. Journal of City Planning Institute of Japan   59(3)   (In Japanese) DOI: https://doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.59.1099
• 2024/10/10 New paper published: Luo, L., Parady, G., Takami, K. (2024) Evaluating the Impact of Automated Vehicles on Residential Location Distribution using Activity-based Accessibility: A Case Study of Japanese Regional Areas. Transportation Research Part A, 104281

• 2024/09/24 Presented ongoing work on (i) environmental impact of automated vehicles and (ii) social networks and travel at the integrated land use/transport models for carbon neutral strategies symposium held at Osaka University.
• 2024/08/20 New preprint published: Ji, J., Gramsch-Calvo, B., Axhausen, K. W., Moeckel, R., Parady, G. (2024) Meet me halfway: Disentangling the factors affecting leisure joint destination choice.
• 2024/07/15 Presented our paper “Text-aided modelling of group decision-making processes: An application to eating-out destination choice” on the 17th International Travel Behavior Research Conference, Vienna, Austria
• 2024/07/12 New preprint published: Gramsch-Calvo B., Okamura K., Takami K., Oyama Y., Chikaraishi M., Axhausen K., Parady G.: Going the extra mile: Estimating the willingness to travel to meet with friends using a joint destination choice model.
• 2024/06/16 New paper published: Luo L., Portugal-Pereira J., Takami, K., Parady, G. (2024) Unintended environmental impacts of private automated vehicles: Insights from Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Transportation Research Part D 134, 104298
• 2024/06/03 New paper published: Oyama, Y., Murakami, S., Chikaraishi, M., Parady G. (2024) Designing Pedestrian Zones within City Center Networks Considering Policy Objective Trade-offs. Transportation Research Part A 182, 104119
• 2024/05/29 Held a multidisciplinary, international seminar on leisure activities: What we talk about when we talk about leisure.
• 2024/03/29 Presented at the International Symposium on Sustainable Urban Mobility through Modular and Integrated Transport Systems at Nagoya University.
• 2024/03/12 Participated at Korea-Japan Networking Seminar at Yonsei University.
• 2024/03/01 Joined the Editorial Board of Travel Behavior and Society.
• 2024/02/29 Awarded Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research B: “Development of an activity-based model for spatial planning in the age of physical-virtual space coexistence.”
• 2024/02/20 New paper published: Mori, N., Takami, K., Parady, G. (2024) Evaluating access to bus stops considering topographical features: A case study of Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama City. Japanese Journal of JSCE (In Japanese).
• 2024/02/07 Bridging Transportation Researchers Conference BTR#6 call for papers is out! more info here.
• 2023/10/17 Featured in the School of Engineering Young Faculty website.
• 2023/09/28 New paper published: Parady, G., Axhausen K.W. (2023) Size Matters: The Use and Misuse of Statistical Significance in Discrete Choice Models in the Transportation Academic Literature. Transportation, Open access.
• 2023/09/25 New paper published: Parady, G., Oyama, Y. & Chikaraishi, M. (2023) Text-aided Group Decision-making Process Observation Method (x-GDP) a novel methodology for observing the joint decision-making process of travel choices. Transportation, Open access.
• 2023/08/08 New paper published: Han, C., Luo, L., Parady, G., Takami, K., Chikaraishi, M., Harata N. (2023) Modeling joint eating-out destination choices incorporating group-level impedance: A case study of the Greater Tokyo Area. Journal of Transport Geography 111, 103672.