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Avital Angel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning. She completed her Doctoral dissertation on “Linking pedestrian movement and the built environment – a data-driven study on street-level walkability”. She specializes in monitoring and analyzing pedestrian movement in relation to built environment characteristics, using big data technologies—including crowdsourced datasets, sensor networks, and mobile app data—across multiple spatial scales, from citywide networks to detailed street design. Trained as a landscape architect (B.L.A) and Urban Planner (M.Ur.P.) with experience in planning practice, she combines academic expertise with professional experience to produce actionable insights that enhance walkability and promote sustainable urban mobility.

Curriculum

2025  Research associate at the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning
2022  International Editorial Board – Journal of Urban Mobility (JUM)
2020-2025Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and town planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Direct Track from Master’s Degree. Dissertation Title: “Linking pedestrian movement and the built environment – a data-driven study on street-level walkability”
2024-2025Research assistant In- “JUST STREETS”, Funded by- Horizon Europe: Horizon-MISS-2022- CIT-01-01: Designing inclusive, safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility
2022-2025Course Instructor at the faculty of Architecture and Town planning, Technion IIT. Courses: “Landscape Architecture studio” (undergraduate students); “Ulpan 1 (Studio) – City planning”, (Graduate students); “Ulpan 2 (Studio) – Neighborhood planning” (Graduate students)
2022  Visiting scholar at “LINKS” research foundation, Turin, Italy
2020-2025Member of EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network (DTN)
2019-2025Tutor and Teaching assistant at the faculty of Architecture and Town planning, Technion IIT. Courses: “Introduction to landscape architecture”; “Planning with vegetation
2018-2020Master in Urban and Regional Planning (M.Ur.P.), Faculty of Architecture and town planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Received as part of Direct Track PhD Program
2017  Exchange Student at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Landscape Architecture department, Sydney, Australia
2014-2018Bachelor in Landscape Architecture (BLA), Magna cum Laude, Faculty of Architecture and town planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
2017-2020Landscape architect in “Greenstein Har-Gil Landscape Architecture and environmental planning”
2016-2017Student position at “Berman-Barot Landscape Architects”.

Publications

  • Angel, A. (2025).  “Linking pedestrian movement and the built environment: A big data-driven study on street-level walkability” (Doctoral dissertation, Technion IIT).

  • Angel, A., Cohen, A., Nelson, T., Plaut, P. (2024). Evaluating the relationship between walking and street characteristics based on big data and machine learning analysis. Cities, 151, 105111. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124003251 . 

  • Angel, A., & Plaut, P. (2024). Tempo-spatial analysis of pedestrian movement in the built environment based on crowdsourced big data. Cities, 149, 104917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104917

  • Angel, A., Cohen, A., Nelson, T., & Plaut, P. (2024, July). From Data to Design: Using mobile app data and machine learning techniques for street-level walkability assessment. In AESOP Annual Congress proceedings (Vol. 36).

  • Angel, A., Cohen, A., Dalyot, S., & Plaut, P. (2023). Estimating pedestrian traffic with Bluetooth sensor technology. Geo-Spatial Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2023.2247446

  • Angel, A., Cohen, A., Dalyot, S., & Plaut, P. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 policies on pedestrian traffic and walking patterns. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0  (0)(Special Issue: Urban Analytical Approaches to Combatting Covid-19), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221113332 .

  • Angel, A., Cohen, A., Plaut, P., & Dalyot, S. (2022). Ubiquitous big geodata for measuring the change of pedestrian mobility patterns during COVID-19. Geospatial Data in the 2020s:Transformative Power and Pathways to Sustainability, FIG publication number 78, FIG Commission 3 – Spatial Information Management. fig.net/resources/publications/figpub/pub78/Figpub78.pdf

  • Angel, A., & Plaut, P. (2022). Pedestrian Movement and the Built Environment–A Big Data-Based Analysis. In Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility (pp. 728-728). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland

  • Schmidt* A., (2019). אנרגיה מחוץ לקופסא. Ecology & Environment(אקולוגיה וסביבה)  10(2), 16-20. (in Hebrew) https://magazine.isees.org.il/?p=16606 

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  • Avital Angel. “Walkability input - Linking pedestrian movement and the built environment using crowed sourced big data” – Remaking the street Summer School, Technical University of Munich (TUM). July 2025.

  • Avital Angel. "Big Data Analysis of Pedestrian traffic in Boulevards vs. Other City Streets". AESOP 2025: Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress, Istanbul, Turkey. 2025.

  • Avital Angel – “Walking and the City – Understanding Pedestrian Movement through Big Data Technologies and Machine Learning Analysis Over Time”. Departmental lecture, Department of Civil Engineering;  Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. April 2025

  • Avital Angel,Achituv Cohen, Tryselin Nelson, and Pnina Plaut. "Unravelling Pedestrian Behaviour: A machine learning approach to analysing pedestrian movement and street-level characteristics in urban environments." Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility (CSUM 2024), Volos, Greece. 2024.

  • Avital Angel, Achituv Cohen, Tryselin Nelson, and Pnina Plaut. "From Data to Design: Using mobile app data and machine learning techniques for street-level walkability assessment." AESOP 2024: Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress, Paris, France. 2024.

  • Avital Angel, Achituv Cohen, Tryselin Nelson, and Pnina Plaut. "Walking on sunshine: studying street-level walkability using mobile app data and machine learning techniques." Mobile Tartu 2024, Tartu, Estonia. 2024.

  • Avital Angel. “DTN Experience”. EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network (DTN) Annual Forum, Ghent, Belgium. 2024. 

  • Avital Angel. “Measuring Street-level walkability and its influencing factors”, EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network (DTN) Annual Forum, Ghent, Belgium. 2024. 

  • Avital Angel and Pnina Plaut. "Pedestrian movement and the built environment – A big data-based analysis." Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility (CSUM 2022), Skiathos, Greece. 2022.

  • Avital Angel, Achituv Cohen, Sagi Dalyot, and Pnina Plaut. "Walking activity at a time of COVID-19 restriction policies: experience from Israel." AC21SWF 2022: Academic Consortium 21 Student World Forum, China. 2022.

  • Avital Angel and Pnina Plaut. "Tempo-spatial analysis of pedestrian movement using Bluetooth sensor technology." AESOP 2022: Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress, Tartu, Estonia. 2022.

  • Avital Angel and Pnina Plaut. "Walking and the city - Analyzing tempo-spatial dynamics of pedestrian movement using crowdsourced big data." Mobile Tartu 2022, Tartu, Estonia. 2022.

  • Avital Angel. Measuring street-level walkability based on big data technologies”. Tomorrow Mobility World Congress (TMWC), Barcelona, Spain. 2022.

  • Avital Angel, Achituv Cohen, Sagi Dalyot, and Pnina Plaut. "Impact of COVID-19 policies on pedestrian traffic and walking patterns." Pre-ICC 2021 Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Combating COVID-19, Florence, Italy. 2021. Received the Best paper award.

  • Avital Angel, Achituv Cohen, Sagi Dalyot, and Pnina Plaut. "Evaluating Bluetooth sensors as a tool for collecting pedestrians’ flow data." Mobile Tartu 2020, Tartu, Estonia. 2020. 

  • Avital Angel. "Doctoral Training Network: Young Researchers’ Views on Urban Mobility." EIT Urban Mobility Summit 2020, Virtual Conference. 2020. (Panel Speaker)

  • Avital Angel. “Closed Circuit”. Green Challenge, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark. 2019.

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