GREENER URBAN TRAVEL ENVIRONMENTS FOR EVERYONE: From measured wellbeing impacts to Big Data analytics

Project Information

GREENTRAVEL

Grant agreement ID: 101044906

DOI

10.3030/101044906

EC signature date 28 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 981 735,00

EU contribution

€ 1 981 735,00

Coordinated by

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

It is not always greener on the other side: Greenery perception across demographics and personalities in multiple cities

Author(s): Matias Quintana, Fangqi Liu, Jussi Torkko, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang, Yujun Hou, Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Tuuli Toivonen, Yi Lu, Filip Biljecki
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning, Issue 271, 2026, ISSN 0169-2046
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDURBPLAN.2026.105618

Urban attractiveness according to ChatGPT: Contrasting AI and human insights

Author(s): Milad Malekzadeh, Elias Willberg, Jussi Torkko, Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Issue 117, 2025, ISSN 0198-9715
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COMPENVURBSYS.2024.102243

Urban Visual Appeal According to ChatGPT: Contrasting AI and Human Insights

Author(s): Milad Malekzadeh 0002; Elias Willberg; Jussi Torkko; Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: CoRR, 2024, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.14268

The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel

Author(s): Joose Helle; Age Poom; Elias S Willberg; Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Journal of Open Research Software, 2023, ISSN 2049-9647
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vxcp3

A travel time matrix data set for the Helsinki region 2023 that is sensitive to time, mode and interpersonal differences, and uses open data and novel open-source software

Author(s): Christoph Fink; Elias Willberg; Robert Klein; Vuokko Heikinheimo; Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Scientific Data, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03689-z

Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law

Author(s): Korpilo, S., Willberg, E., Müürisepp, K. et al.
Published in: Ambio, 2025, ISSN 1654-7209
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-025-02178-W

Green and blue spaces matter for active mobility: Results from mapping perceived environmental exposure in five European cities

Author(s): Silviya Korpilo, Kamyar Hasanzadeh, Robert Klein, Elias Willberg, Rory Taylor, Kerli Müürisepp, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Issue 113, 2026, ISSN 1618-8667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2025.129088

Vegetation phenology along urban-rural gradients across European capital cities

Author(s): Amanda Ojasalo, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Elias Willberg, Tuuli Toivonen, Eduardo Eiji Maeda
Published in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Issue 112, 2026, ISSN 1618-8667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2025.129004

Sufficient mobility and access within limits: Research agenda for bringing together corridor frameworks and transportation research

Author(s): Michał Czepkiewicz, Giulio Mattioli, Filip Schmidt, Elias Willberg, Lena Kilian, Henrikki Tenkanen, Dick Timmer, Ákos Gosztonyi, Johanna Raudsepp, Sanna Ala-Mantila, Lisa Jacobson, Mònica Guillen-Royo, Dawid Krysiński, Kevin Dillman, Jukka Heinonen, Pette
Published in: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2026, ISSN 2590-1982
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.TRIP.2026.102029

Temporal variation in travel greenery across 86 cities in Europe

Author(s): Robert Klein, Elias Willberg, Silviya Korpilo, Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2024, ISSN 1618-8667
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2024.128566

Policy for bike share success in cities big and small: Bike share as public transport in Helsinki, Finland, and Tartu, Estonia

Author(s): Karl Saidla; Elias Willberg; Bryan Vallejo; Siiri Silm; Age Poom
Published in: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2025, ISSN 2590-1982
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.TRIP.2025.101673

Same greenery, different Green View Index: Inconsistent greenery assessment in semantic segmentation and street view imagery

Author(s): Jussi Torkko, Milad Malekzadeh, Elias Willberg, Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Issue 112, 2026, ISSN 1618-8667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2025.128969

‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities

Author(s): Elias Willberg, Christoph Fink, Robert Klein, Roope Heinonen, Tuuli Toivonen
Published in: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2024, ISSN 0198-9715
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102168

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Green Paths 2.0: Developing a Transferable Multi-Objective Environmental Exposure Optimizing Route Planning tool for Active Travel

Author(s): Roope Heinonen
Publisher: University of Helsinki