Joachim Scheiner
Technical University of Dortmund
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Environment and Planning A | 2014
Christian Holz-Rau; Joachim Scheiner; Kathrin Sicks
There is a lot of research on spatial differences in travel behaviour, specifically on travel distances. This research suggests that the distances travelled by the inhabitants of municipalities with lower population and neighbourhoods with lower density and less mixed land use are longer than those travelled by the inhabitants of cities with higher population, high density, and greater mixed land use. However, related studies focus mainly on daily travel. In this paper we study travel distances in daily trips based on random day trip diaries and long-distance trips for private and business purposes based on retrospective questions in the same questionnaire, asking about “longer journeys with overnight stay” within three months of the survey. We use Heckman models and ordinary least squares regressions to study the effects of municipality size classes based on population, population density, and land-use mix, while controlling for sociodemographics. We find distances travelled on long-distance trips and daily trips to be affected by sociodemographics in much the same way, while spatial effects affect distances travelled on daily and long-distance trips mostly in different directions. Residents of small municipalities and low-density neighbourhoods make fewer and/or shorter long-distance journeys than those living in large cities and high-density neighbourhoods, but the latter travel shorter distances in their daily lives.
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | 2014
Natalie Riedel; Joachim Scheiner; Grit Müller; Heike Köckler
Noise action planning according to the EU Environmental Noise Directive aims to improve peoples health. Although health inequalities exist, the Directive does not address social inequalities in residential exposure to road traffic noise. In multivariate regression analyses based on two urban study populations, we assess the relationship between objective and subjective indicators of residential exposure to road traffic noise as an issue of environmental justice. Residential neighbourhood satisfaction, socio-demographic and -economic, health-related and noise-related attitudinal factors were included as covariates additionally explaining the subjective response to road traffic noise (noise annoyance). Our results underline the need to select, operationalise and examine noise-related indicators very carefully, as objective noise exposure predicts noise annoyance insufficiently. Otherwise, urban environmental planning might miss environmentally unjust situations and fail to initiate distributive and procedural environmental justice.
BMC Public Health | 2012
Natalie Riedel; Kateryna Fuks; Barbara Hoffmann; Simone Weyers; Johannes Siegrist; Raimund Erbel; Anja Viehmann; Andreas Stang; Joachim Scheiner; Nico Dragano
BackgroundUntil now, insomnia has not been much of interest in epidemiological neighbourhood studies, although literature provides evidence enough for insomnia-related mechanisms being potentially dependent on neighbourhood contexts. Besides, studies have shown differences in sleep along individual social characteristics that might render residents more vulnerable to neighbourhood contextual exposures. Given the role of exposure duration and changes in the relationship between neighbourhoods and health, we studied associations of neighbourhood unemployment and months under residential turnover with insomnia by covering ten years of residential history of nearly 3,000 urban residents in the Ruhr Area, Germany.MethodsIndividual data were retrieved from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, a population-based study of randomly chosen participants from adjacent cities, which contains self-rated insomnia symptoms and individual social characteristics. Participants’ residential addresses were retrospectively assessed using public registries. We built individually derived exposure measures informing about mean neighbourhood unemployment rates and months under high residential turnover. These measures were major predictors in multivariate logistic regressions modelling the association between social neighbourhood characteristics and insomnia in the whole sample and subgroups defined by low income, low education, social isolation, and change of residence. Traffic-related noise, age, gender, economic activity, and education were considered as covariates.ResultsNearly 12 per cent of the participants complained about insomnia. Associations of neighbourhood unemployment with insomnia were more consistent than those of residential turnover in the whole sample (adjusted OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.00-2.03 for neighbourhood unemployment and OR 1.33, 95% CI 0.78-2.25 for residential turnover in the highest exposure categories). In low-income and socially isolated participants, neighbourhood unemployment odds of reporting insomnia were particularly elevated (adjusted OR 2.90, 95% CI 1.39-6.02 and OR 3.32, 95% CI 1.11-9.96, respectively). Less educated participants displayed relatively high odds of reporting insomnia throughout all upper neighbourhood unemployment exposure categories. Change of residence weakened associations, whereas undisrupted exposure sharpened them by trend.ConclusionsOur findings hint at multiple stressors being effective in both the neighbourhood context and individual resident, possibly reflecting precarious life situations undermining residents’ sleep and health chances. Moreover, our results suggest a temporal dependency in the association between neighbourhood and insomnia.
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | 2015
Natalie Riedel; Heike Köckler; Joachim Scheiner; Klaus Berger
Borrowing from concepts of socio-environmental epidemiology and psychology, we conceived self-rated health as a function of multiple physical and psychosocial stressors and resources at the residential neighbourhood and individual level. In this model of multiple stressors, objective exposure to road traffic noise was specified as a physical stressor whose effect on health may be mediated and modified by residents’ subjective response to noise (serious noise annoyance). Self-reported hearing disability, recreational coping in green areas and residential neighbourhood satisfaction were examined as additional psychosocial stressors or resources, independently of socio-demographic and -economic factors. Results from our empirical analysis based on two studies and multivariable logistic regressions might support the idea that environmental planning should overcome sectoral boundaries and adopt an integrative approach including objective exposures, residents’ subjective responses, and perceived resources.
Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | 2005
Uta Bauer; Christian Holz-Rau; Joachim Scheiner
KurzfassungDer Beitrag fragt nach den Abhängigkeiten des intraregionalen Wanderungsverhaltens von den Wanderungsmotiven, Wohnbedürfnissen und Standortanforderungen privater Haushalte sowie nach den Wechselwirkungen der Standortwahl mit dem individuellen Verkehrsverhalten. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer Haushaltsbefragung in der Region Dresden, die im Kontext empirischer Ergebnisse aus anderen Studien dargestellt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das Wanderungsverhalten deutlich mit den Wohnansprüchen und Standortpräferenzen des jeweiligen Haushalts korrespondiert, aber auch durch äußere Rahmenbedingungen geprägt wird. Aus dem Standortverhalten ergeben sich einerseits Konsequenzen für die Verkehrsmittelwahl und Aktionsräume der Haushaltsmitglieder. Andererseits spielt die Motorisierung des Haushalts für das Standortverhalten eine wichtige Rolle. Der Beitrag schließt mit Überlegungen zur Vereinbarkeit der Standortpräferenzen privater Haushalte und Individuen mit dem planerischen Leitbild kompakter Siedlungsstrukturen.AbstractThe contribution focuses on the dependence of intra-regional migration behaviour of private households from their migration motives, housing needs and locational requirements, as well as on interdependencies between locational decisions and individual travel behaviour. The results are based on a household survey carried out in the region of Dresden, which is put in context with empiricial results of other studies. The results show that migrations correspond with the housing requirements and locational preferences of the respective household, but they are also influenced by external conditions. As a consequence, locational behaviour affects mode choice and activity spaces of the household members, but in turn, locational behaviour itself is influenced by household motorization. The contribution concludes with some considerations on the compatibility of the locational preferences of private households and individuals with the guiding principle of compact settlement structures.
Archive | 2006
Birgit Kasper; Joachim Scheiner
Es 0ist eine zentrale These von StadtLeben, dass zwischen Wohnmobilitat und Alltagsmobilitat enge Beziehungen bestehen. Speziell fur die Auswirkungen der Wohnstandortwahl wird diese These haufig anhand raumlicher Vergleiche zwischen mehreren Gebieten oder Gebietstypen untersucht - so auch in StadtLeben (Kap. 5). Die StadtLeben-Daten lassen jedoch auch weitergehende Analysen zu folgenden Fragen zu:
Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | 2010
Dennis Guth; Christian Holz-Rau; Markus Maciolek; Joachim Scheiner
ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag untersucht den Einfluss der Beschäftigungssuburbanisierung auf den Pendelverkehr am Beispiel deutscher Agglomerationsräume. Um die Entwicklung des Berufsverkehrs im Kontext unterschiedlicher Siedlungsstrukturen zu beleuchten, werden monozentrische (Hamburg, München) und polyzentrische Regionen (Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart) gegenübergestellt. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht zunächst eine Analyse der (raum)strukturell bedingten Mindestanzahl an Pendelvorgängen, die sich als Maß regionaler Funktions(ent)mischung interpretieren lässt. Anschließend wird das tatsächliche Pendelaufkommen betrachtet. Für beide Analysen werden Indikatoren entwickelt, die einen Vergleich unterschiedlicher Regionen und/oder Zeitschnitte ermöglichen. Abschließend erfolgt eine Berechnung der zurückgelegten Berufswegedistanzen. Die Auswertungen stützen sich auf Daten der Beschäftigtenstatistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit der Jahre 1999 und 2007.AbstractThe paper examines the effect of employment suburbanisation on commuter traffic in German metropolitan regions. In order to identify how different urban spatial structures affect commuting behaviour, monocentric (Hamburg, Munich) and polycentric regions (Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart) are compared. First we focus on the (spatio)structural minimum number of commuters, which is an appropriate measure for the regional jobs housing balance. In the second step we analyze the change of both the commuting volume and the distances covered by commuters. For this purpose, different indicators derived from commuting data are used, allowing us to compare different agglomerations and/or points in time. The analysis is based on commuting data between 1999 and 2007 taken from the German Social Security Statistics.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2018
Natalie Riedel; Heike Köckler; Joachim Scheiner; Irene van Kamp; Raimund Erbel; Adrian Loerbroks; Thomas Clasen; Gabriele Bolte
Urban residents’ need to be in control of their home environment can be constrained by perceived uncontrollability of exposure to road traffic noise. Noise annoyance may indicate a psychological stress reaction due to this uncontrollability perception, thereby undermining the restoration process. Environmental resources, such as having access to a quiet side at home and dwelling-related green, may reduce noise annoyance both directly by shielding acoustically and indirectly by enhancing residents’ perceived noise control. We assessed the potential mediating role of perceived noise control in independent and joint associations of road traffic noise exposure (>65 dB Lden) and of an absent dwelling-related environmental resource (three indicators concerning quiet sides and one indicator concerning dwelling-related green) with noise annoyance. In our cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study on elderly urban citizens (N = 1812), we observed a statistically significant indirect effect of noise exposure on noise annoyance through perceived noise control (39%, 95%CI 26–55%). Statistical mediation between indicators of absent environmental resources and noise annoyance was weaker. The potential indirect effect was confirmed for combinations of noise exposure with each of the four indicators of an absent environmental resource. Our findings may call for mitigating noise levels while fostering quietness and green at residents’ homes.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2017
Natalie Riedel; Irene van Kamp; Heike Köckler; Joachim Scheiner; Adrian Loerbroks; Thomas Clasen; Gabriele Bolte
The Environmental Noise Directive expects residents to be actively involved in localising and selecting noise abatement interventions during the noise action planning process. Its intervention impact is meant to be homogeneous across population groups. Against the background of social heterogeneity and environmental disparities, however, the impact of noise action planning on exposure to traffic-related noise and its health effects is unlikely to follow homogenous distributions. Until now, there has been no study evaluating the impact of noise action measures on the social distribution of traffic-related noise exposure and health outcomes. We develop a conceptual (logic) model on cognitive-motivational determinants of residents’ civic engagement and health (inequities) by integrating arguments from the Model on household’s Vulnerability to the local Environment, the learned helplessness model in environmental psychology, the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress, and the reserve capacity model. Specifically, we derive four hypothetical patterns of cognitive-motivational determinants yielding different levels of sustained physiological activation and expectancies of civic engagement. These patterns may help us understand why health inequities arise in the context of noise action planning and learn how to transform noise action planning into an instrument conducive to health equity. While building on existing frameworks, our conceptual model will be tested empirically in the next stage of our research process.
Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | 2008
Joachim Scheiner
KurzfassungVon zentraler Bedeutung für die Wohnstandortentscheidung eines Haushalts sind die damit verbundenen standortabhängigen Kosten. Der Beitrag schätzt die zusätzlichen Verkehrskosten ab, die ein privater Haushalt als Folge der Randwanderung zu erwarten hat. Dabei spielen insbesondere Veränderungen der Motorisierung sowie der Verkehrsmittelspezifischen Reisedistanzen eine zentrale Rolle. Im Ergebnis zeigen sich starke Zunahmen der Verkehrskosten nach Randwanderungen. Besonders hoch fallen diese für Erwerbstätige und für Haushalte aus, die (einen) zusätzliche (n) Pkw(s) anschaffen. Ein Haushalt mit einer erwerbstätigen und einer nicht erwerbstätigen Person, der einen zusätzlichen Pkw anschafft, hat je nach gewähltem Standort in Suburbia zusätzliche Kosten von rund 350 bis 400 ∈ monatlich zu erwarten.AbstractLocation-specific costs are of major significance for a private households location decisions. The paper estimates the additional transport costs a household has to face as a consequence of residential suburbanisation. The major components of these costs are changes in household motorisation and travel distances covered by specific modes. The results indicate significant increases in transport costs as an effect of suburbanisation. The increase is particularly strong for employees and households purchasing (an) additional automobile(s). A household composed of one employee and one non-employed individual who purchases one additional car has to expect additional transport costs ranging between 350 and 400 € per month, depending on the chosen location.