Dr.-Ing. David Duran

Dr.-Ing. David Telmo Duran Rodas

Postadresse

Arcisstr. 21
80333 München

Focus Area

David Duran is a postdoc researcher and leader of the Research Group Mobility Justice at the Technical University in Munich, Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning. He finished his dissertation with the topic: Efficiency and/or equity? Understanding and planning bike-sharing based on spatial fairness. He is a graduate of the international TUM master's program in Transportation Systems and has a background in Civil engineering. His research focuses on employing mixed-methods approaches to create awareness, assess, and address mobility injustices, along with conducting mobility-related data analysis and visualization.

Curriculum

2025	-	2029	Habilitation in Sustainable Mobilty Planning
2021	-		Research associate at the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning at TUM Research group Leader Research group leader: Mobility Justice. Focus on awakening, assessing, and addressing mobility injustices. Topics on accessibility by proximity, 15mC, active mobility, transit, shared mobility and integrations of sustainable modes. Mentor PhD candidates (n=5), supervisor of Master and Bachelor thesis (n=25). Apply for funding and projects (4 granted, 2 not granted). Teaching: Data analysis and visualization, accessibility planning, transport policies and project design, mixed–methods approaches for mobility research. Project coordinator: Smarthubs (Plan, design and evaluate mobility hubs), MGeM (Mixed methods approaches to assess mobility injustices), DREAMS(15mC planning with business models) InclusiveS-paces (tools and technologies for inclusive mobility) Project co-coordinator: Unlock15 15mC planning by empowering people), CommonAccess 15mC planning with commoning approaches)
2017	-	2021	PhD student at TUM mobil.LAB funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation. Topic: Efficiency and/or equity? Understanding and planning bike-sharing based on spatial fairness.
2018	-	2021	Lecturer. Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Course on data analysis and visualization in the master's program Sustainable Mobilities.
2019			Tutor. Data analysis and visualization in R. Institute for Computational Biology.
2015	-	2017	Master's degree in Transportation Systems with specialization in Intelligent Transportation Systems at TUM. Master thesis: Identification of spatio-temporal factors influencing the arrival and departure of shared vehicles.
2016	-	2017	Student assistant at the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning at TUM
2015			Assessor of the Vice-Minister of Defense in Ecuador
2013	-	2014	Road design and transportation management. Programa de Manejo del Agua y el Suelo (PROMAS) - Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador
2007	-	2014	Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador (̈similar to German diploma). Bachelor project: Preliminary design of a rural ring road in a tropical region.

Publications

2025

Grundei, M., Zimmer, C., Pfertner, M., & Durán-Rodas, D. (2025). The top-down-bottom-up approach: a Mobility Program Indicators Development Framework (MPIDF). Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 34, 101635.
Arias-Molinares, D., Geurs, K., Grigolon, A., Ulak, B., Duran-Rodas, D., McCormick, B., ... & Esztergár-Kiss, D. (2025). Exploring the 15-Minute City concept for the urban outskirts: a systematic literature review. European transport research review, 17(1), 50.
van der Craats, J., van Lierop, D., & Duran-Rodas, D. (2025). Social inclusion in sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs): The case of shared mobility in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Journal of Transport Geography, 126, 104234.
Hook, H., Durán-Rodas, D., Jamal, S., & Schwanen, T. (2025). Evaluating initiatives to improve transport justice. Transportation Research
Haxhija, S., Abouelela, M., & Duran-Rodas, D. (2025). Exploring the focus and gaps in mobility justice-related surveys. A scoping review approach. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 31, 101411

2024

Geipel, M., Martinez-Rico, B., Büttner, B., & Duran-Rodas, D. (2024). Spatial factors associated with usage of different on-demand elements within mobility hubs: a systematic literature review. Transport Reviews, 44(6), 1258-1279.
Haxhija, S., Duran-Rodas, D., Larriva, M. T. B., & Wulfhorst, G. (2024). A Mobility Justice Framework to prioritize areas for mobility interventions. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 56, 101192.
Navarro-Ávalos, F., Nichols, A., Jehle, U., Büttner, B., & Durán-Rodas, D. (2024). EmPATHs-A serious board game to raise awareness and empathy towards vulnerable-to-exclusion groups in mobility. Journal of Transport & Health, 38, 101879.
Mohamed Abouelela, David Durán-Rodas, Constantinos Antoniou (2024). Do we all need shared E-scooters? An accessibility-centered spatial equity evaluation approach. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856424000338
María Teresa Baquero Larriva, Benjamin Büttner, David Durán-Rodas (2024). Active and healthy ageing: Factors associated with bicycle use and frequency among older adults- A case study in Munich

2023

Geurs, A., Grigolon, A., Müzel, K., Gkiotsalitis, K., Duran-Rodas, D., Büttner, B., Pappers, J., Martines L., Graf, A., Hansel, J., Gkrava, R., Klenmentschitz, R. (2023). The SmartHubs integration ladder: a conceptual model for the categoristaiton of shared mobility hubs. SmartHubs.
D Arias-Molinares, Y Xu, B Büttner, D Duran-Rodas (2023). Exploring key spatial determinants for mobility hub placement based on micromobility ridership. Journal of Transport Geography 110, 103621
Aumann, S., Kinigadner, J., Duran‐Rodas, D., Büttner B. (2023). Driving Towards Car-Independent Neighborhoods in Europe: A Typology and Systematic Literature Review. Urban Planning, Open Access Journal. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i3.6552
M Langer, D Durán-Rodas, E Pajares (2023). Exploring a quantitative assessment approach for car dependence: A case study in Munich. Journal of Transport and Land Use 16 (1), 87-104

2022

Pfertner, M., Büttner, B., Duran-Rodas, D., & Wulfhorst, G. (2022). Workplace relocation and its association with car availability and commuting mode choice. Journal of Transport Geography, 98, 103264.

2021

Durán-Rodas, D. (2021). Efficiency and/or equity? Understanding and planning bike-sharing based on spatial fairness (Doctoral dissertation, Technische Universität München).
Fuchs, S., Durán-Rodas, D., Stöckle, M., & Pfertner, M. (2021, June). Who uses shared microbility? Exploring users’ social characteristics beyond sociodemographics. In 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Duran-Rodas, D., Wright, B., Pereira, F. C., & Wulfhorst, G. (2021). Demand And/oR Equity (DARE) method for planning bike-sharing. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

2020

Duran-Rodas, D., Villeneuve, D., & Wulfhorst, G. (2020). Bike-sharing: the good, the bad, and the future-an analysis of the public discussion on Twitter. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 20(4), 38-58.
Duran-Rodas, D., Villeneuve, D., Pereira, F. C., & Wulfhorst, G. (2020). How fair is the allocation of bike-sharing infrastructure? Framework for a qualitative and quantitative spatial fairness assessment. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 140, 299-319.
Duran-Rodas, D., Chaniotakis, E., Wulfhorst, G., and Antoniou, C. (2020) Open source data–driven method to identify most influencing spatiotemporal factors. An example of station–based bike sharing. In Konstadinos G. Goulias, Adam W. Davis (Eds.), Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome. Elsevier, Pages 503-526.

2019

Villeneuve, D., D. Durán-Rodas, A. Ferri, T. Kuttler, J. Magelund, M. Mögele, L. Nitschke, E. Servou, and C. Silva. (2019) What is Interdisciplinarity in Practice? Critical Reflections on Doing Mobility Research in an Intended Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Group. Sustainability 2020, 12(1), 197.
Duran-Rodas, D., Chaniotakis, E., and Antoniou, C. (2019) Built Environment Factors Affecting Bike Sharing Ridership: Data-Driven Approach for Multiple Cities. Transportation Research Record, 2673(12), 55–68.

2018

Duran-Rodas, D., Chaniotakis, E., and Antoniou, C. (2018) Automated open-source data collection and processing: an example of OpenStreetMap and bike-sharing. Transportation Research Procedia, 41, 688-693. mobil.TUM International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport. Munich, DE.

2017

Duran-Rodas, D., Chaniotakis, E., and Antoniou, C. (2017) Identification of spatio-temporal factors affecting arrivals and departures of shared vehicles. Methodology for comparing multiple cities on a local level using open-source data. Master Thesis.

2014

Duran-Rodas D. and Guzman J. (2014) Design of rural roads in tropical areas after the Ecuadorian normative. Bachelor Project.

Research stays abroad

2019

· Spatial factors associated to the usage of hybrid bike sharing systems Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Copenhagen, Denmark 30.09.2019 - 31.10.2019

· Planning the Cycling City Graduate School of Social Sciences - University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands 16.06.2019 - 04.07.2019

2017

· Short Term Scientific Mission within COST TU 1305 Social networks and travel behaivor” Faculty of Architecture and Town planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel 29.11.2017 - 15.12.2017

Projects

2027	INCLUSIVESPACES: Design, tools & frameworks for creating an accessible & inclusive built enviroment for all, for now & for the future.
2026	DREAMS-Driving Equitable and Accesible 15 Minute Neighbourood TRansformations
2024	Exploring the 15-minute city concept for urban outskirts: a systematic literature review. DREAMS Project.
2023	Mobility (In)Justice Atals, Where does injustice happen in Munich? MGeM
2023	Living Lab implementation report Munich. SmartHubs
2022	Setup and evaluation framework for Living Labs. SmartsHubs
2022	Guidelines for the integration of mobility hubs into the space. SmartHubs
2022	A multidimensional mobility hub typology and inventory. SmartsHubs
	MCube. Mobilitätsgerechtigkeit in Metropolregionen (MGeM) (more information)
2016	Evaluation der Mobilitätsstation an der Münchner Freiheit (more information)