Researcher

Joris Beckers

Research Expertise:My expertise lies in the quantitative spatial analysis of (urban) economic and transport networks. As such, I teach the course Regional and Urban Economics and organise the yearly Summer School on Urban Logistics. The current focus of my research lies on the evolution of mobility alternatives and logistics services within an urban context, which I study in several national and European projects. In this research I combine spatial analysis with quantitative statistical research and more qualitative research methods. In addition I supervise research on the impact of changing consumer demand on urban logistics, the effectiveness of municipal economic and transport policies in Flanders and the role of (shared) hubs for logistics and mobility (e.g. ShareDiMobiHub and SPINE projects).

Keywords:SPATIAL ANALYSIS, SPATIAL ECONOMICS, URBAN LOGISTICS, Economics and applied economics

Disciplines:Applied economics, Business administration and accounting, Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Management, Marketing, Mathematical and quantitative methods, Microeconomics, Tourism, Other economics and business, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography, Product development, Other social sciences

Research techniques:- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Network analysis - Scripting in python - Statistical analysis in R

Users of research expertise:My research is situated at the corssroads of regional economics and transport. Due to my focus on the impact of e-commerce, potential collaborations are possible with specialists from other economic fields, such as marketing or management, or researchers concerned with the built environment (geography, urban planning...). I presented my work at different sector federations (Comeos, UNIZO, SPRYG ...) concerned with retail, logistics and the built environment.